Bill Text: CA AB3177 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Mitigation Fee Act: land dedications: mitigating vehicular traffic impacts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled) 2024-08-28 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 13.). [AB3177 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB3177-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Mitigation Fee Act: land dedications: mitigating vehicular traffic impacts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled) 2024-08-28 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 13.). [AB3177 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB3177-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3177
Introduced by Assembly Member Wendy Carrillo |
February 16, 2024 |
An act to amend Sections 66000 and 66005.1 of the Government Code, relating to housing.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3177, as introduced, Wendy Carrillo.
Mitigation Fee Act: land dedications: mitigating vehicular traffic impacts.
Existing law, the Mitigation Fee Act, imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project. Existing law requires a local agency that imposes a fee on a housing development for the purpose of mitigating vehicular traffic impacts to set the rate for the fee to reflect a lower rate of automobile trip generation if the housing development satisfies specified characteristics, including that the housing development is located within a 1/2 mile of a transit station. Existing law defines transit station for these purposes to mean a rail or light-rail station, ferry terminal, bus hub, or bus transfer station.
This bill would instead require the
housing development to be located within a 1/2 mile of a transit priority area for purposes of a local agency setting the rate for a mitigating vehicular traffic impacts fee to reflect a lower rate of automobile trip generation. The bill would define “transit priority area” as an area within 1/2 mile of a major transit stop that is existing or planned, if the planned stop is scheduled to be completed within the planning horizon included in a Transportation Improvement Program or applicable regional transportation plan. The bill would also prohibit local agency from imposing a land dedication requirement, as defined, on a housing development for the purpose of mitigating vehicular traffic impacts or achieving an adopted level of service related to vehicular traffic.
The
California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 66000 of the Government Code is amended to read:66000.
As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:(a) “Development project” means any project undertaken for the purpose of development. “Development project” includes a project involving the issuance of a permit for construction or reconstruction, but not a permit to operate.
(b) “Fee” means a monetary exaction other than a tax or special assessment, whether established for a broad class of projects by legislation of general applicability or imposed on a specific project on an ad hoc basis, that is charged by a local agency to the applicant in connection with approval of a development project for the purpose of defraying all or a portion of the cost of public
facilities related to the development project, but does not include fees specified in Section 66477, fees for processing applications for governmental regulatory actions or approvals, fees collected under development agreements adopted pursuant to Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 65864) of Chapter 4, or fees collected pursuant to agreements with redevelopment agencies that provide for the redevelopment of property in furtherance or for the benefit of a redevelopment project for which a redevelopment plan has been adopted pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code).
(c) “Land dedication” means a physical exaction of property for public use without compensation that is charged by a local agency to the applicant in connection with approval of a development project for the
purpose of defraying all or a portion of the cost of public facilities related to the development project.
(c)
(d) “Local agency” means a county, city, whether general law or chartered, city and county, school district, special district, authority, agency, any other municipal public corporation or district, or other political subdivision of the state.
(d)
(e) “Public facilities” includes public improvements, public services, and community amenities.
SEC. 2.
Section 66005.1 of the Government Code is amended to read:66005.1.
(a) When a local agency imposes a fee on a housing development pursuant to Section 66001 for the purpose of mitigating vehicular traffic impacts, if that housing development satisfies all of the following characteristics, the fee, or the portion thereof relating to vehicular traffic impacts, shall be set at a rate that reflects a lower rate of automobile trip generation associated with such housing developments in comparison with housing developments without these characteristics, unless the local agency adopts findings after a public hearing establishing that the housing development, even with these characteristics, would not generate fewer automobile trips than a housing development without those characteristics:(1) The
housing development is located within one-half mile of a transit station and there is direct access between the housing development and the transit station along a barrier-free walkable pathway not exceeding one-half mile in length.
priority area.
(2) Convenience retail uses, including a store that sells food, are located within one-half mile of the housing development.
(3) The housing development provides either the minimum number of parking spaces required by the local ordinance, or no more than one onsite parking space for zero to two bedroom units, and two onsite parking spaces for three or more bedroom units, whichever is less.
(b) If a housing development does not satisfy the characteristics in subdivision (a), the local agency may charge a fee that is proportional to the estimated rate of automobile trip generation associated with the housing development.
(c) A local agency shall not impose a land dedication requirement on a housing development pursuant to Section 66001 for the purpose of mitigating vehicular traffic impacts or achieving an adopted level of service related to vehicular traffic.
(c)
(d) As used in this section, “housing development” means a development project with common ownership and financing consisting of residential use or mixed use where not less than 50 percent of the floorspace is for residential use.
(d)
(e) For the purposes of this section, “transit station” has the meaning set forth in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 65460.1. “Transit station” includes planned transit stations otherwise meeting this definition whose construction is programmed to be completed prior to the scheduled completion and occupancy of the housing development.
priority area” means the same as defined in paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 21099 of the Public Resources Code.
(e)
(f) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2011.