Bill Text: CA AB837 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Surplus land: exempt surplus land: sectional planning area.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-22 - Re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING. [AB837 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 837
| Introduced by Assembly Member Alvarez |
February 14, 2023 |
An act to add Article 8.1 (commencing with Section 54234.3) to Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 and repeal Section 54222.3.3 of the Government Code, relating to land use.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 837, as amended, Alvarez.
Surplus land: exempt surplus land: sectional planning area.
Existing law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Existing law defines terms for these purposes, including, among others, “surplus land” to mean land owned in fee simple by any local agency for which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action in a regular public meeting declaring that the land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use. Existing law defines “exempt surplus land” to mean, among other things, surplus land that a local agency is exchanging for another property necessary for the agency’s use and surplus land that a local agency is transferring to another local, state, or federal agency for the agency’s use. Existing law provides that an agency is not required to follow the requirements for disposal of surplus land for “exempt surplus land,” except as provided.
This bill
would provide, until December 31, 2033, January 1, 2024, that land that is subject to a sectional planning area, as described, that is acquired prior to January 1, 2019, and that met one of several specified conditions on January 1, 2019, is not subject to the above-described requirements for the disposal of surplus land. land if specified conditions are met. The bill would, commencing April 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, require a local agency that disposes of land pursuant to these provisions submit a specified report to the Department of Housing and Community
Development. The bill would make a local agency that disposes of land in violation of these provisions liable for a civil penalty, as specified.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Chula Vista.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
(a)Land
SECTION 1.
Section 54222.3.3 is added to the Government Code, to read:54222.3.3.
Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), this article shall not apply to land that meets all of the following(1) The land is subject to a sectional planning area document that meets
all of
the following:
(A) The sectional planning area was adopted prior to January 1, 2019.
(B) The sectional planning area document is consistent with county and city general plans applicable to the land.
(2) The land identified in the adopted sectional planning area document was acquired prior to January 1, 2019.
(3) On January 1, 2019, the parcels on the land met at least one of the following conditions:
(A) The land was subject to an irrevocable offer of dedication of fee interest requiring the land to be used for a specified purpose.
(B) The land was acquired through a land exchange subject to a land offer agreement that grants the land’s original owner the right to repurchase the land acquired by the local agency pursuant to the agreement if the land will not be developed in a manner consistent with the agreement.
(C) The land was subject to a grant deed specifying that the property shall be used for educational uses and limiting other types of uses allowed on the property.
(4) At least 25 percent of the units are dedicated to lower income households, as defined in Section 50079.5 of the Health and Safety Code, at an affordable rent, as defined by Section 50053 of the Health and Safety Code, or an affordable housing cost, as defined by Section 50052.5 of the
Health and Safety Code, and subject to a recorded deed restriction for a period of 55 years for rental units and 45 years for owner-occupied units.
(5) The land is developed at an average density of at least 10 units per acre, calculated with respect to the entire sectional planning area.
(6) No more than 25 percent of the nonresidential square footage identified in the sectional planning area document receives its first certificate of occupancy before at least 25 percent of the residential square footage identified in the sectional planning area document has received its first certificate of occupancy.
(7) No more than 50 percent of the nonresidential square footage identified in the sectional planning area document receives its first certificate of occupancy before at least 50 percent of the residential square footage identified in the sectional planning area document has received its first certificate of occupancy.
(8) No more than 75 percent of the nonresidential square footage identified in the sectional planning area document shall receive its first certificate of occupancy before at least 75 percent of the residential square footage identified in the sectional planning area document has received its first certificate of occupancy.
(b) (1) The local agency, by April 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, shall submit a report to the department that includes, for any land disposed of pursuant to subdivision (a), all of the following information:
(A) The location of the disposed land.
(B) The number of units approved to be developed on the land.
(C) The number of units produced on the land.
(D) The square footage of residential uses produced on the land.
(E) The square footage of nonresidential uses produced on the land.
(2) The department may request additional information from the agency regarding land disposed of pursuant to subdivision (a).
(3) This subdivision does not authorize the department to require the submission of data related to land disposed of pursuant to subdivision (a), or its review thereof, as a precondition of disposition.
(c) (1) If the agency disposes of land in violation of this section, the agency shall be liable for a civil penalty calculated as follows:
(A) For a first violation, 30 percent of the greater of the final sale price or the fair market value of the land at the time of disposition.
(B) For a second or subsequent violation, 50 percent of the greater of the final sale price or the fair market value of the land at the time of disposition.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), fair market value shall be determined by an independent appraisal of the land.
(3) An action to enforce paragraph (1) may be brought by any of the following:
(A) An entity identified in subdivisions (a) to (e), inclusive, of Section 54222.
(B) A person who would have been eligible to apply for residency
in affordable housing had the agency not violated this section.
(C) A housing organization, as that term is defined in Section 65589.5.
(D) A beneficially interested person or entity.
(E) The department.
(4) A penalty assessed pursuant to this subdivision shall, except as otherwise provided, be deposited into a local housing trust fund. The local agency may elect to instead deposit the penalty moneys into the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund or the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund. Penalties shall not be paid out of funds already dedicated to affordable housing, including, but not limited to, Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Funds, funds dedicated to housing for very low, low-, and moderate-income households, and federal HOME Investment
Partnerships Program and Community Development Block Grant Program funds. The local agency shall commit and expend the penalty moneys deposited into the local housing trust fund within five years of deposit for the sole purpose of financing newly constructed housing units that are affordable to extremely low, very low, or low-income households.
(5) Five years after deposit of the penalty moneys into the local housing trust fund, if the funds have not been expended, the funds shall revert to the state and be deposited in the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund or the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund for the sole purpose of financing newly constructed housing units located in the same jurisdiction as the surplus land and that are affordable to extremely low, very low, or low-income households. Expenditure of any penalty moneys deposited into the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund or the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund pursuant to this subdivision
shall be subject to appropriation by the Legislature.
(b)
(d) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Department” means the Department of Housing and Community Development.
(1)
(2) “Local agency” means every city, whether organized under general law or by charter, county, city and county, district, including school, sewer, water, utility, and local and regional park districts of any kind or class, joint powers authority, successor agency to a former redevelopment agency, housing authority, or other political subdivision of this state and any instrumentality thereof that is empowered to acquire and hold real property.
(2)
(3) “Sectional planning area” means an area composed of identifiable planning units, within which common services and facilities, a strong
internal unity, and an integrated pattern of land use, circulation, and townscape planning are readily achievable.
(3)
(4) “Sectional planning area document” means a document or plan that sets forth, at minimum, a site utilization plan of the
sectional planning area and development standards for each land use area and designation.
(e) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2034, and as of that date is repealed.
This article shall remain in effect only until December 31, 2033, and as of that date is repealed.
