Bill Text: CA AB3057 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: junior accessory dwelling units ordinances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-08-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 210, Statutes of 2024. [AB3057 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB3057-Introduced.html
the provisions of Section 65852.1 or Section 65852.2 Section 65852.1, 65852.2, or 65852.22 of the Government Code.
Bill Title: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: junior accessory dwelling units ordinances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-08-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 210, Statutes of 2024. [AB3057 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB3057-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3057
Introduced by Assembly Member Wilson |
February 16, 2024 |
An act to amend Section 21080.17 of the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3057, as introduced, Wilson.
California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: junior accessory dwelling units ordinances.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.
CEQA exempts from its requirements the adoption of an ordinance by a city or county to issue a zoning variance, special use permit, or conditional use
permit for a dwelling unit to be constructed, or which is attached to or detached from, a primary residence on a parcel zoned for a single-family residence, as provided, or to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned to allow single-family or multifamily dwelling residential use.
This bill would expand the above CEQA exemption to include the adoption of an ordinance by a city or county to provide for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units in single-family residential zones.