Meeting Name: ABAG Legislation Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 5/10/2019 9:15 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Board Room - 1st Floor
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19-0487 13. ReportApproval of ABAG Legislation Committee Summary Minutes of April 12, 2019   Action details Not available
19-0488 14a ReportApproval of MTC Legislation Committee Minutes of the April 12, 2019 Meeting   Action details Not available
19-0489 15a. ReportLegislative History Detailed list of bills the Commission is tracking in Sacramento and Washington D.C., including those ABAG or MTC supports or opposes.   Action details Not available
19-0490 15b. ReportAB 69 (Ting): Small Home Building Standards AB 69 would require the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to propose small home building standards governing ADUs smaller than 800 square feet, junior ADUs and detached dwelling units smaller than 800 square feet. These standards must include allowances for small kitchens and bathrooms with small appliances and achieve the most cost-effective construction standards possible. The standards must be submitted to the California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) for adoption by January 1, 2021.   Action details Not available
19-0491 15c. ReportAB 1483 (Grayson): Housing Data/Transparency This bill seeks to make housing fee and zoning standards more transparent by requiring that they be posted on local agency and state web sites, requires local agencies to provide additional reporting of housing permit requests, production and permitting data annually, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to develop an online database of housing production data accessible to the public.recommended for approvalPass Action details Media Media
19-0492 15d. ReportSB 6 (Beall): Statewide Housing Site Inventory SB 6 would require that the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) add to the statewide surplus lands inventory locally-identified sites available for housing development as identified in a local agency’s housing element site inventory.   Action details Not available
19-0493 15e. ReportAB 68 (Ting): Accessory Dwelling Units AB 68 would prohibit local Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) standards from including certain requirements related to minimum lot size and replacement parking and would require an ADU (attached or detached) of at least 800 square feet and 16 feet in height to be allowed. The bill would also reduce the allowable time to issue an ADU permit to 60 days after an agency receives a completed application.recommended for approvalPass Action details Media Media
19-0494 15f. ReportAB 1485 (Wicks): Workforce Housing AB 1485 would modify affordability requirements applicable to a developer who wants to take advantage of current law’s by-right provisions in Senate Bill 35 (Wiener, 2017) such that a project could either dedicate 10 percent of the total number of units to housing affordable to households making below 80 percent of the area median income (AMI)-as provided for in current law-or 20 percent to households earning below 120 percent AMI with an average income of units at or below 100 percent-which the bill would add as a new option.recommended for approvalPass Action details Media Media
19-0499 15g. ReportTom Bulger’s Report Report from Washington, D.C. advocate.   Action details Not available
19-0558 17a ReportHousing Legislative Working Group Update Report on the work of the ABAG-MTC Housing Legislative Working Group, convened to provide input into staff’s analysis of key housing bills under consideration in Sacramento this year.   Action details Media Media
19-0574 1  ReportPresentation   Action details Not available
19-0495 17b1. ReportAB 1481 (Bonta) and AB 1697 (Grayson) - Tenancy Termination: Just Cause Prohibits eviction of a tenant without just cause stated in writing. Requires tenant be provided a notice of a violation of lease and opportunity to cure violation prior to issuance of notice of termination.recommended for approvalPass Action details Media Media
19-0496 17b2. ReportAB 1482 (Chiu) - Statewide Annual Cap on Rent Increases Caps annual rent increases by five percent above the percent change in the cost of living and limits the total rental rate increase within a 12 month period to 10 percent.recommended for approvalPass Action details Media Media
19-0497 17b3. ReportSB 18 (Skinner) - Keep Californians Housed Act Authorizes a competitive grant program to be administered by Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to provide emergency rental assistance and legal aid for tenants facing eviction, meditation between landlords and tenants and legal education.recommended for approvalPass Action details Media Media
19-0498 17c1. ReportSB 330 (Skinner): Housing Crisis Act of 2019 SB 330 is a wide reaching bill that aims to accelerate housing development, provide project proponents more certainty and lower fees, and reduce displacement of existing residents from substandard buildings.recommended for approvalPass Action details Media Media
19-0559 17c2. ReportSB 50 (Wiener): Equitable Communities Incentives - Upzoning Near Transit & Jobs-Rich Areas & By Right Allowance for Small Residential Projects in Specified Areas SB 50 would allow varying degrees of higher-density multifamily housing to be built within ½-mile of transit stations, ¼-mile of high-quality bus corridors and in areas designated as “jobs-rich” by the Department of Housing and Community Development. The bill also provides for smaller, by-right residential development on vacant parcels in urbanized areas.recommended for approvalPass Action details Media Media
19-0560 17c3. ReportAB 1487 (Chiu): Housing Alliance for the Bay Area AB 1487 (Chiu) would establish the Housing Alliance for the Bay Area (HABA) to increase funding for affordable housing in the nine-county region. The bill authorizes HABA to place on the ballot a series of revenue raising measures, subject to certain return to source provisions, to provide funding and technical assistance to local jurisdictions and affordable housing developers to help produce and preserve affordable housing and pay for tenant protection services. The bill provides that HABA would have the authority to buy and lease land for affordable housing purposes, but not the ability to purchase land by eminent domain or regulate or enforce local land use decisions.recommended for approvalPass Action details Media Media
19-0561 17c4. ReportAB 11 (Chiu): Community Redevelopment Law of 2019 AB 11 would restore to cities and counties the option to form an entity that can use “tax-increment financing” to pay for affordable housing and other local infrastructure priorities, subject to approval of the Strategic Growth Council.recommended for approvalPass Action details Media Media
19-0562 17c5. ReportSB 13 (Wieckowski): Accessory Dwelling Units SB 13 would revise ADU law to require that a local government allow studio and one-bedroom ADUs of at least 850 square feet and two-bedroom or more ADUs of up to 1,000 square feet, and would prohibit ADU owner-occupancy requirements. The bill would limit impact fees imposed by local governments, special districts or water corporations to 25 percent of the impact fees otherwise charged for a new single-family dwelling for ADUs 750 square feet or greater and would waive impact fees for ADUs less than 750 square feet. The bill would also limit to 60 days the time a local agency has to issue an ADU permit after receiving an application and create a 10-yeary amnesty program to incentivize owners of existing unpermitted ADUs to obtain the permits and inspections necessary to legalize the units.recommended for approvalPass Action details Media Media
19-0563 17c6. ReportAB 1486 (Ting): Surplus Lands Act Expansion and Revision AB 1486 would revise the Surplus Lands Act (SLA) - the state law that requires local agencies to prioritize affordable housing, as well as parks and open space, when disposing of land no longer necessary for the agency’s use - and other state laws related to making surplus public land available for affordable housing development.recommended for approvalPass Action details Media Media
19-0564 18a. ReportAd Hoc Committee Delegate to the President of ABAG and Chair of MTC the authority to create an Ad Hoc committee, if necessary, to review any bills where substantive disagreement exists, with the objective of providing alternative recommendations to the ABAG Executive Board and MTC Commission.   Action details Not available