Bill Text: CA SB450 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Redevelopment.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Vetoed) 2012-03-01 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. Veto sustained. [SB450 Detail]
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Bill Title: Redevelopment.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Vetoed) 2012-03-01 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. Veto sustained. [SB450 Detail]
Download: California-2011-SB450-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 450 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Senator Lowenthal
(Principal coauthor: Senator DeSaulnier)
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Torres)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Atkins and Norby)
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
An act to amend Sections 33080.1, 33080.2, 33080.8, 33334.2,
33334.3, 33334.4, 33334.12, 33334.16, 33413, and 33413.5 of, to add
Sections 33080.9, 33080.10, 33080.11, 33080.12, and 50464.5 to, and
to add Article 13 (commencing with Section 33460) to Chapter 4 of
Part 1 of Division 24 of, the Health and Safety Code, relating to
redevelopment.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 450, as introduced, Lowenthal. Redevelopment.
(1) The Community Redevelopment Law requires that each
redevelopment agency submit the final report of any audit undertaken
by any other local, state, or federal government entity to its
legislative body and to additionally present an annual report to the
legislative body containing specified information.
This bill would require the agency to include additional
information relating to any major audit violations, as defined, any
corrections to those violations, and planning and general
administrative expenses of the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund.
The bill would authorize the Controller to conduct quality control
reviews of independent financial audit reports and require the
Controller to the results of his or her reviews. The Controller would
be required to comply with certain notification and referral
provisions in the event that the audit was conducted in a manner that
may constitute unprofessional conduct.
The bill would require the Department of Housing and Community
Development to conduct audits of redevelopment agencies to ensure
compliance with the housing provisions of the Community Redevelopment
Law. The bill would require each agency to annually deposit 0.05% of
any tax increment deposited into the Low and Moderate Income Housing
Fund into the Redevelopment Agency Accountability Fund, which the
bill would create, to fund the department audits.
(2) Existing law requires that funds used for purposes of
increasing, improving, and preserving a community's supply of low-
and moderate-income housing be held in a separate Low and Moderate
Income Housing Fund until used. Existing law limits the planning and
general administrative costs which may be paid with moneys from the
Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund.
The bill would revise the costs and expenses which may be
considered planning and general administrative costs for the purposes
of being paid from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. Except
as provided, the bill would prohibit an agency from expending more
than 15% of the tax increment deposited in the fund for planning and
general administrative costs. The bill would impose other reporting
and accountability measures on agencies with respect to the use of
moneys in the fund for planning and administrative purposes.
(3) Existing law requires, except as specified, each agency to
expend over each 10-year period of the implementation plan, the
moneys in the Low and Moderate Income Fund to assist housing for
persons of moderate, low, and very low income according to specified
calculations.
The bill would instead require that at least 70% of the agency's
expenditures from the fund directly assist the new construction,
acquisition, and substantial rehabilitation or preservation of rental
housing for persons of extremely low, very low, low, or moderate
income, 20% of which is required to be directed towards rental
housing for persons of extremely low-income.
(4) Existing law requires an agency that has failed to expend or
encumber excess surplus in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund
within one year to disburse the surplus voluntarily to the
appropriate county housing authority or another public agency or to
expend or encumber the surplus within two additional years.
The bill would delete these provisions. The bill would modify the
definition of the term "excess surplus."
(5) Whenever low- or moderate-income housing dwelling units are
destroyed or removed from the low- and moderate-income housing market
as part of a redevelopment that is subject to a written agreement
with the agency, or where financial assistance has been provided by
the agency, the agency is required to provide replacement housing
within 4 years of the destruction or removal.
The bill would modify the agency's obligation to provide
replacement housing to low- or moderate-income persons and families
and would impose new requirements on the agency with respect to the
replacement housing plan and housing specifications. If a court has
found that an agency has failed to comply with these provisions, the
bill would require the court, at a minimum, to issue an order
temporarily prohibiting the agency from issuing any debt for any
project area, except as specified.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 33080.1 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
33080.1. Every redevelopment agency shall submit the final report
of any audit undertaken by any other local, state, or federal
government entity to its legislative body within 30 days of receipt
of that audit report. In addition, every redevelopment agency shall
present an annual report to its legislative body within six months of
the end of the agency's fiscal year. The annual report shall contain
all of the following:
(a) (1) An independent financial audit report for the previous
fiscal year. "Audit report" means an examination of, and opinion on,
the financial statements of the agency which present the results of
the operations and financial position of the agency, including all
financial activities with moneys required to be held in a separate
Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund pursuant to Section 33334.3.
This audit shall be conducted by a certified public accountant or
public accountant, licensed by the State of California, in accordance
with Government Auditing Standards adopted by the Comptroller
General of the United States. The audit report shall meet, at a
minimum, the audit guidelines prescribed by the Controller's office
pursuant to Section 33080.3 and also include a report on the agency's
compliance with laws, regulations, and administrative requirements
governing activities of the agency, and a calculation of the excess
surplus in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund as defined in
subdivision (g) of Section 33334.12. The audit report shall
include a statement from the auditor as to whether or not the agency
has any major au dit violations, as defined in subdivision
(j) of Section 33080.8.
(2) A statement describing any activities taken in that fiscal
year to correct major audit violations identified during or prior to
that fiscal year by the agency, its auditor, or the Department of
Housing and Community Development.
(2)
(3) However, the legislative body may elect
to omit from inclusion in the audit report any distinct activity of
the agency that is funded exclusively by the federal government and
that is subject to audit by the federal government.
(b) A fiscal statement for the previous fiscal year that contains
the information required pursuant to Section 33080.5.
(c) A description of the agency's activities in the previous
fiscal year affecting housing and displacement that contains the
information required by Sections 33080.4 and 33080.7.
(d) A description of the agency's progress, including specific
actions and expenditures, in alleviating blight in the previous
fiscal year.
(e) A list of, and status report on, all loans made by the
redevelopment agency that are fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or
more, that in the previous fiscal year were in default, or not in
compliance with the terms of the loan approved by the redevelopment
agency.
(f) A description of the total number and nature of the properties
that the agency owns and those properties the agency has acquired in
the previous fiscal year.
(g) A list of the fiscal years that the agency expects each of the
following time limits to expire:
(1) The time limit for the commencement for eminent domain
proceedings to acquire property within the project area.
(2) The time limit for the establishment of loans, advances, and
indebtedness to finance the redevelopment project.
(3) The time limit for the effectiveness of the redevelopment
plan.
(4) The time limit to repay indebtedness with the proceeds of
property taxes.
(h) Consistent with paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section
33334.3, a statement of the amount and percentage of tax increment
expended from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund for planning
and general administration in each of the preceding five fiscal
years.
(i) A list of all real properties owned by the agency, the date of
acquisition for each property, the agency's intended purpose for
each property, and a statement of the amount, if any, of moneys from
the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund used to acquire the
property.
(h)
(j) Any other information that the agency believes
useful to explain its programs, including, but not limited to, the
number of jobs created and lost in the previous fiscal year as a
result of its activities.
SEC. 2. Section 33080.2 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
33080.2. (a) When the agency presents the annual report to the
legislative body pursuant to Section 33080.1, the agency shall inform
the legislative body of any major audit violations of this part
based on the independent financial audit report or an audit
investigation conducted by the department . The agency shall
inform the legislative body that the failure to correct a major audit
violation of this part may result in the filing of an action by the
Attorney General pursuant to Section 33080.8 i n a
form that indicates whether a referral to the Attorney General has
been made .
(b) The legislative body shall review any report submitted
pursuant to Section 33080.1 and take any action it deems appropriate
on that report no later than the first meeting of the legislative
body occurring more than 21 days from the receipt of the report.
SEC. 3. Section 33080.8 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
33080.8. (a) On or before April 1 of each year, the Controller
shall compile a list of agencies that appear to have major audit
violations as defined in this section, based on the independent
financial audit reports filed with the Controller pursuant to Section
33080.
(b) On or before June 1 of each year, for each major audit
violation of each agency identified pursuant to subdivision (a), the
Controller shall determine if the agency has corrected the major
audit violation. Before making this determination, the Controller
shall consult with each affected agency. In making this
determination, the Controller may request and shall receive the
prompt assistance of public officials and public agencies, including,
but not limited to, the affected agencies, counties, and cities. If
the Controller determines that an agency has not corrected the major
audit violation, the Controller shall send a list of those agencies,
their major violations, all relevant documents, and the affidavits
required pursuant to subdivision (d) to the Attorney General for
action pursuant to this section.
(c) For each agency that the Controller refers to the Attorney
General pursuant to subdivision (b), the Controller shall notify the
agency and the legislative body that the agency was on the list sent
to the Attorney General. The Controller's notice shall inform the
agency and the legislative body of the duties imposed by Section
33080.2.
(d) Within 45 days of receiving the referral from the Controller
pursuant to subdivision (b), the Attorney General shall determine
whether to file an action to compel the agency's compliance with this
part. Any action filed pursuant to this section shall be commenced
in the County of Sacramento. The time limit for the Attorney General
to make this determination is directory and not mandatory. Any action
shall be accompanied by an affidavit or affidavits, to be provided
by the Controller with the referral, setting forth facts that
demonstrate a likelihood of success on the merits of the claim that
the agency has a major audit violation. The affidavit shall also
certify that the agency and the legislative body were informed not
less than 10 days prior to the date on which the action was filed.
The agency shall file a response to any action filed by the Attorney
General pursuant to this section within 15 days of service.
(e) (1) On the earliest day that the business of the court will
permit, but not later than 45 days after the filing of an action
pursuant to this section, the court shall conduct a hearing to
determine if good cause exists for believing that the agency has a
major audit violation and has not corrected that violation.
(2) If the court determines that no good cause exists or that the
agency had a major audit violation but corrected the major audit
violation, the court shall dismiss the action.
(3) If the court determines that there is good cause for believing
that the agency has a major audit violation and has not corrected
that major audit violation, the court shall immediately issue an
order that prohibits the agency from doing any of the following:
(A) Encumbering any funds or expending any money derived from any
source except to pay the obligations designated in subparagraphs (A)
to (G), inclusive, of paragraph (1) of subdivision (e) of Section
33334.12.
(B) Adopting a redevelopment plan.
(C) Amending a redevelopment plan except to correct the major
audit violation that is the subject of the action.
(D) Issuing, selling, offering for sale, or delivering any bonds
or any other evidence of indebtedness.
(E) Incurring any indebtedness.
(f) In a case that is subject to paragraph (3) of subdivision (e),
the court shall also set a hearing on the matter within 60 days.
(g) If, on the basis of that subsequent hearing, the court
determines that the agency has a major audit violation and has not
corrected that violation, the court shall order the agency to comply
with this part within 30 days, and order the agency to forfeit to the
state no more than:
(1) Two thousand dollars ($2,000) in the case of a community
redevelopment agency with a total revenue, in the prior year, of less
than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) as reported in the
Controller's annual financial reports.
(2) Five thousand dollars ($5,000) in the case of a community
redevelopment agency with a total revenue, in the prior year, of at
least one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) but less than two
hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) as reported in the
Controller's annual financial reports.
(3) Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in the case of a community
redevelopment agency with a total revenue, in the prior year, of at
least two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) as reported in
the Controller's annual financial reports.
(h) The order issued by the court pursuant to paragraph (3) of
subdivision (e) shall continue in effect until the court determines
that the agency has corrected the major audit violation. If the court
determines that the agency has corrected the major audit violation,
the court may dissolve its order issued pursuant to paragraph (3) of
subdivision (e) at any time.
(i) An action filed pursuant to this section to compel an agency
to comply with this part is in addition to any other remedy, and is
not an exclusive means to compel compliance.
(j) As used in this section, "major audit violation" means that,
for the fiscal year in question, an agency did not:
(1) File an independent financial audit report that substantially
conforms with the requirements of subdivision (a) of Section 33080.1.
(2) File a fiscal statement that includes substantially all of the
information required by Section 33080.5.
(3) Establish time limits, as required by Section 33333.6.
(4) Deposit all required tax increment revenues directly into the
Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund upon receipt, as required by
Section 33334.3, 33334.6, 33487, or 33492.16.
(5) Establish a Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, as required
by subdivision (a) of Section 33334.3.
(6) Accrue interest earned by the Low and Moderate Income Housing
Fund to that fund, as required by subdivision (b) of Section 33334.3.
(7) Determine that the planning and administrative costs charged
to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund are necessary for the
production, improvement, or preservation of low- and moderate-income
housing, as required by subdivision (d) of Section 33334.3.
(7) Comply with subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 33334.3,
governing eligible expenditures for planning and general
administration from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund.
(8) Initiate development of housing on real property acquired
using moneys from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund or sell
the property, as required by Section 33334.16.
(9) Adopt an implementation plan, as required by Section 33490.
SEC. 4. Section 33080.9 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
33080.9. (a) (1) The department shall forward to the Attorney
General and the Controller a copy of any audit or investigation of a
redevelopment agency conducted pursuant to Section 50464.5.
(2) On or before April 1 of each year, the department shall
determine for all audits and investigations conducted the previous
year, including those audits and investigations conducted pursuant to
Section 50464.5, whether an audit or investigation contains major
audit violations, as defined in subdivision (j) of Section 33080.8.
(b) On or before June 1 of each year, the department shall
determine for each major audit violation identified pursuant to
subdivision (a) if the agency has corrected the major audit
violation. Before making this determination, the department shall
consult with each affected agency. In making this determination, the
department may request and shall receive the prompt assistance of
public officials and public agencies, including, but not limited to,
the affected agencies, counties, and cities. If the department
determines an agency has not corrected the major audit violation, the
department shall send a list of those agencies, their major audit
violations, all relevant documentation, and the affidavits required
pursuant to subdivision (e) to the Attorney General for any action
pursuant to this section.
(c) For each agency the department refers to the Attorney General
pursuant to subdivision (b), the department shall notify the agency
and its legislative body that the agency was on the list sent to the
Attorney General. The notice shall inform the agency and its
legislative body of the duties imposed pursuant to Section 33080.2.
(d) The Attorney General shall determine whether to file an action
to compel the agency's compliance with this article within 45 days
of receiving notice from the department regarding major audit
violations. Any action filed pursuant to this section shall be
commenced in the superior court of any county where the Attorney
General has an office. The time limit for the Attorney General to
make this determination is directory and not mandatory.
(e) Any action shall be accompanied by the affidavit or affidavits
setting forth the facts that demonstrate a likelihood of success on
the merits of the claim that the agency has a major audit violation.
The affidavit shall also certify that the agency and its legislative
body were notified of the action no less than 10 days prior to the
date on which the action was filed. The agency shall file a response
to any action filed by the Attorney General pursuant to this section
within 15 days of service.
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the
department to initiate or settle litigation, or to resolve any
departmental audit or investigation in a manner contrary to law.
SEC. 5. Section 33080.10 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
33080.10. In an action to compel an agency's compliance with this
article pursuant to Section 33080.9, all of the following shall
apply:
(a) (1) On the earliest day that the business of the court will
permit, but no later than 45 days after the filing of an action, the
court shall conduct a hearing to determine if good cause exists for
believing the agency has a major audit violation, as defined in
subdivision (j) of Section 33080.8, and has not corrected the major
audit violation.
(2) If the court determines that no major audit violation exists
or that the agency had a major audit violation and has corrected the
major audit violation, the court shall dismiss the action.
(3) If the court determines there is good cause to believe the
agency had a major audit violation and has not corrected that major
audit violation, the court shall set a hearing on the matter within
60 days. The court also shall issue immediately an order that
prohibits the agency from doing any of the following:
(A) Encumbering any funds or expending any money derived from any
source, other than a Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, except to
pay the obligations designated in subparagraphs (A) to (G),
inclusive, of paragraph (1) of subdivision (e) of Section 33334.12.
(B) Adopting a redevelopment plan.
(C) Exercising the power of eminent domain.
(D) Amending a redevelopment plan, except to correct the major
audit violation that is the subject of the action.
(E) Issuing, selling, offering for sale, or delivering any bonds
or any other evidence of indebtedness, except to increase, improve,
preserve, or assist in the construction or rehabilitation of, housing
units that will be occupied by and affordable to persons or families
of extremely low, very low, low, or moderate income, in accordance
with this part.
(F) Incurring any indebtedness, except to increase, improve,
preserve, or assist in the construction or rehabilitation of, housing
units that will be occupied by and affordable to persons or families
of extremely low, very low, low, or moderate income, in accordance
with this part.
(b) If a court finds, on the basis of the subsequent hearing set
pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a), that the agency has a
major audit violation and has not corrected the major audit
violation, the court shall order the agency to comply with this
article within 30 days and order the agency to forfeit to the state a
monetary sanction commensurate with the violation.
(c) The order issued by the court pursuant to paragraph (3) of
subdivision (a) shall continue in effect until the court determines
the agency has corrected the major audit violation. If the court
determines that the agency has corrected the major audit violation,
the court may dissolve its order at any time.
(d) An action filed pursuant to this section is in addition to any
other remedy and is not an exclusive means to compel compliance.
This section is not intended to preclude an action to compel
compliance with this article by any other interested party or
resident of the jurisdiction.
SEC. 6. Section 33080.11 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
33080.11. (a) The Controller may conduct quality control reviews
of independent financial audit reports required by Section 33080.1 to
the extent it is feasible to do so within existing budgetary
resources. The Controller shall communicate the results of his or her
reviews to the independent auditor and the agency for which the
audit was conducted, and shall review his or her findings with the
independent auditor.
(b) If the quality control review specified in subdivision (a)
indicates the audit was conducted in a manner that may constitute
unprofessional conduct, as defined in Section 5100 of the Business
and Professions Code, including, but not limited to, gross negligence
resulting in a material misstatement in the audit, the Controller
shall refer the case to the California Board of Accountancy. If the
board determines that the independent auditor conducted an audit in
an unprofessional manner, the independent auditor is prohibited from
performing any redevelopment agency audit for a period of three
years, in addition to any other penalties the board may impose.
SEC. 7. Section 33080.12 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
33080.12. (a) (1) Whenever the Controller determines through two
consecutive quality control reviews, pursuant to Section 33080.11,
that audits performed by an independent auditor pursuant to Section
33080.1 were not performed in substantial conformity with provisions
of the audit and report guidelines adopted pursuant to Section
33080.3, the Controller shall notify in writing the independent
auditor and the California Board of Accountancy.
(2) If the independent auditor does not file an appeal in writing
to the board within 30 calendar days after receipt of the Controller'
s notification, the Controller's determination under this section
shall be final.
(3) If an appeal is filed with the California Board of
Accountancy, the board shall complete an investigation of the appeal.
On the basis of the investigation, the board may do either of the
following:
(A) Find the Controller's determination should not be upheld and
has no effect.
(B) Schedule the appeal for a hearing.
(b) If the Controller's determination pursuant to subdivision (a)
becomes final, the independent auditor shall be ineligible to conduct
audits pursuant to Section 33080.1 for a period of three years, or,
in the event of an appeal, for any period and subject to conditions
that may be ordered by the California Board of Accountancy. No later
than March 1 following the date on which the Controller's
determination becomes final, the Controller shall notify each agency
of those independent auditors determined to be ineligible under this
section or Section 33080.11. Agencies shall not use the audit
services of an independent auditor ineligible under this section.
(c) For the purposes of this section, "independent auditor" shall
mean any person or firm entering into a contract to conduct an audit
under Section 33080.1.
(d) This section shall not preclude the California Board of
Accountancy from taking any disciplinary action it deems appropriate
under any other provisions of law.
SEC. 8. Section 33334.2 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
33334.2. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (k), not less than
20 percent of all taxes that are allocated to the agency pursuant to
Section 33670 shall be used by the agency for the purposes of
increasing, improving, and preserving the community's supply of low-
and moderate-income housing available at affordable housing cost, as
defined by Section 50052.5, to persons and families of low or
moderate income, as defined in Section 50093, lower income
households, as defined by Section 50079.5, very low income
households, as defined in Section 50105, and extremely low income
households, as defined by Section 50106, that is occupied by these
persons and families, unless one of the following findings is made
annually by resolution:
(1) (A) That no need exists in the community to improve, increase,
or preserve the supply of low- and moderate-income housing,
including housing for very low income households in a manner that
would benefit the project area and that this finding is consistent
with the housing element of the community's general plan required by
Article 10.6 (commencing with Section 65580) of Chapter 3 of Division
1 of Title 7 of the Government Code, including its share of the
regional housing needs of very low income households and persons and
families of low or moderate income.
(B) This finding shall only be made if the housing element of the
community's general plan demonstrates that the community does not
have a need to improve, increase, or preserve the supply of low- and
moderate-income housing available at affordable housing cost to
persons and families of low or moderate income and to very low income
households. This finding shall only be made if it is consistent with
the planning agency's annual report to the legislative body on
implementation of the housing element required by subdivision (b) of
Section 65400 of the Government Code. No agency of a charter city
shall make this finding unless the planning agency submits the report
pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 65400 of the Government Code.
This finding shall not take effect until the agency has complied
with subdivision (b) of this section.
(2) (A) That some stated percentage less than 20 percent of the
taxes that are allocated to the agency pursuant to Section 33670 is
sufficient to meet the housing needs of the community, including its
share of the regional housing needs of persons and families of low-
or moderate-income and very low income households, and that this
finding is consistent with the housing element of the community's
general plan required by Article 10.6 (commencing with Section 65580)
of Chapter 3 of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code.
(B) This finding shall only be made if the housing element of the
community's general plan demonstrates that a percentage of less than
20 percent will be sufficient to meet the community's need to
improve, increase, or preserve the supply of low- and moderate-income
housing available at affordable housing cost to persons and families
of low or moderate income and to very low income households. This
finding shall only be made if it is consistent with the planning
agency's annual report to the legislative body on implementation of
the housing element required by subdivision (b) of Section 65400 of
the Government Code. No agency of a charter city shall make this
finding unless the planning agency submits the report pursuant to
subdivision (b) of Section 65400 of the Government Code. This finding
shall not take effect until the agency has complied with subdivision
(b) of this section.
(C) For purposes of making the findings specified in this
paragraph and paragraph (1), the housing element of the general plan
of a city, county, or city and county shall be current, and shall
have been determined by the department pursuant to Section 65585 to
be in substantial compliance with Article 10.6 (commencing with
Section 65580) of Chapter 3 of Division 1 of Title 7 of the
Government Code.
(3) (A) That the community is making a substantial effort to meet
its existing and projected housing needs, including its share of the
regional housing needs, with respect to persons and families of low
and moderate income, particularly very low income households, as
identified in the housing element of the community's general plan
required by Article 10.6 (commencing with Section 65580) of Chapter 3
of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code, and that this
effort, consisting of direct financial contributions of local funds
used to increase and improve the supply of housing affordable to, and
occupied by, persons and families of low or moderate income and very
low income households is equivalent in impact to the funds otherwise
required to be set aside pursuant to this section. In addition to
any other local funds, these direct financial contributions may
include federal or state grants paid
directly to a community and that the community has the
discretion of using for the purposes for which moneys in the Low and
Moderate Income Housing Fund may be used. The legislative body shall
consider the need that can be reasonably foreseen because of
displacement of persons and families of low or moderate income or
very low income households from within, or adjacent to, the project
area, because of increased employment opportunities, or because of
any other direct or indirect result of implementation of the
redevelopment plan. No finding under this subdivision may be made
until the community has provided or ensured the availability of
replacement dwelling units as defined in Section 33411.2 and until it
has complied with Article 9 (commencing with Section 33410).
(B) In making the determination that other financial contributions
are equivalent in impact pursuant to this subdivision, the agency
shall include only those financial contributions that are directly
related to programs or activities authorized under subdivision (e).
(C) The authority for making the finding specified in this
paragraph shall expire on June 30, 1993, except that the expiration
shall not be deemed to impair contractual obligations to bondholders
or private entities incurred prior to May 1, 1991, and made in
reliance on the provisions of this paragraph. Agencies that make this
finding after June 30, 1993, shall show evidence that the agency
entered into the specific contractual obligation with the specific
intention of making a finding under this paragraph in order to
provide sufficient revenues to pay off the indebtedness.
(b) Within 10 days following the making of a finding under either
paragraph (1) or (2) of subdivision (a), the agency shall send the
Department of Housing and Community Development a copy of the
finding, including the factual information supporting the finding and
other factual information in the housing element that demonstrates
that either (1) the community does not need to increase, improve, or
preserve the supply of housing for low- and moderate-income
households, including very low income households, or (2) a percentage
less than 20 percent will be sufficient to meet the community's need
to improve, increase, and preserve the supply of housing for low-
and moderate-income households, including very low income households.
Within 10 days following the making of a finding under paragraph (3)
of subdivision (a), the agency shall send the Department of Housing
and Community Development a copy of the finding, including the
factual information supporting the finding that the community is
making a substantial effort to meet its existing and projected
housing needs. Agencies that make this finding after June 30, 1993,
shall also submit evidence to the department of its contractual
obligations with bondholders or private entities incurred prior to
May 1, 1991, and made in reliance on this finding.
(c) In any litigation to challenge or attack a finding made under
paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subdivision (a), the burden shall be
upon the agency to establish that the finding is supported by
substantial evidence in light of the entire record before the agency.
If an agency is determined by a court to have knowingly
misrepresented any material facts regarding the community's share of
its regional housing need for low- and moderate-income housing,
including very low income households, or the community's production
record in meeting its share of the regional housing need pursuant to
the report required by subdivision (b) of Section 65400 of the
Government Code, the agency shall be liable for all court costs and
plaintiff's attorney's fees, and shall be required to allocate not
less than 25 percent of the agency's tax increment revenues to its
Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund in each year thereafter.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed as relieving any
other public entity or entity with the power of eminent domain of any
legal obligations for replacement or relocation housing arising out
of its activities.
(e) In carrying out the purposes of this section, the agency may
exercise any or all of its powers for the construction,
rehabilitation, or preservation of affordable housing for extremely
low, very low, low- , and moderate-income persons or
families, including the following:
(1) Acquire real property or building sites subject to Section
33334.16.
(2) (A) Improve real property or building sites with onsite or
offsite improvements, but only if both (i) the improvements are part
of the new construction or rehabilitation of affordable housing units
for low- or moderate-income persons that are directly benefited by
the improvements, and are a reasonable and fundamental component of
the housing units, and (ii) the agency requires that the units remain
available at affordable housing cost to, and occupied by, persons
and families of extremely low, very low, low, or moderate income for
the same time period and in the same manner as provided in
subdivision (c) and paragraph (2) of subdivision (f) of Section
33334.3.
(B) If the newly constructed or rehabilitated housing units are
part of a larger project and the agency improves or pays for onsite
or offsite improvements pursuant to the authority in this
subdivision, the agency shall pay only a portion of the total cost of
the onsite or offsite improvement. The maximum percentage of the
total cost of the improvement paid for by the agency shall be
determined by dividing the number of housing units that are
affordable to low- or moderate-income persons by the total number of
housing units, if the project is a housing project, or by dividing
the cost of the affordable housing units by the total cost of the
project, if the project is not a housing project.
(3) Donate real property to private or public persons or entities.
(4) Finance insurance premiums pursuant to Section 33136.
(5) Construct buildings or structures.
(6) Acquire buildings or structures.
(7) Rehabilitate buildings or structures.
(8) Provide subsidies to, or for the benefit of, extremely low
income households, as defined by Section 50106, very low income
households, as defined by Section 50105, lower income households, as
defined by Section 50079.5, or persons and families of low or
moderate income, as defined by Section 50093, to the extent those
households cannot obtain housing at affordable costs on the open
market. Housing units available on the open market are those units
developed without direct government subsidies.
(9) Develop plans, pay principal and interest on bonds, loans,
advances, or other indebtedness, or pay financing or carrying
charges.
(10) Maintain the community's supply of mobilehomes.
(11) Preserve the availability to lower income households of
affordable housing units in housing developments that are assisted or
subsidized by public entities and that are threatened with imminent
conversion to market rates.
(f) The agency may use these funds to meet, in whole or in part,
the replacement housing provisions in Section 33413. However, nothing
in this section shall be construed as limiting in any way the
requirements of that section.
(g) (1) The agency may use these funds inside or outside the
project area. The agency may only use these funds outside the project
area upon a resolution of the agency and the legislative body that
the use will be of benefit to the project. The determination by the
agency and the legislative body shall be final and conclusive as to
the issue of benefit to the project area. The Legislature finds and
declares that the provision of replacement housing pursuant to
Section 33413 is always of benefit to a project. Unless the
legislative body finds, before the redevelopment plan is adopted,
that the provision of low- and moderate-income housing outside the
project area will be of benefit to the project, the project area
shall include property suitable for low- and moderate-income housing.
(2) (A) The Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency may use these
funds anywhere within the unincorporated territory, or within the
incorporated limits of the City of Walnut Creek on sites contiguous
to the Pleasant Hill BART Station Area Redevelopment Project area.
The agency may only use these funds outside the project area upon a
resolution of the agency and board of supervisors determining that
the use will be of benefit to the project area. In addition, the
agency may use these funds within the incorporated limits of the City
of Walnut Creek only if the agency and the board of supervisors find
all of the following:
(i) Both the County of Contra Costa and the City of Walnut Creek
have adopted and are implementing complete and current housing
elements of their general plans that the Department of Housing and
Community Development has determined to be in compliance with the
requirements of Article 10.6 (commencing with Section 65580) of
Chapter 3 of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code.
(ii) The development to be funded shall not result in any
residential displacement from the site where the development is to be
built.
(iii) The development to be funded shall not be constructed in an
area that currently has more than 50 percent of its population
comprised of racial minorities or low-income families.
(iv) The development to be funded shall allow construction of
affordable housing closer to a rapid transit station than could be
constructed in the unincorporated territory outside the Pleasant Hill
BART Station Area Redevelopment Project.
(B) If the agency uses these funds within the incorporated limits
of the City of Walnut Creek, all of the following requirements shall
apply:
(i) The funds shall be used only for the acquisition of land for,
and the design and construction of, the development of housing
containing units affordable to, and occupied by, low- and
moderate-income persons.
(ii) If less than all the units in the development are affordable
to, and occupied by, low- or moderate-income persons, any agency
assistance shall not exceed the amount needed to make the housing
affordable to, and occupied by, low- or moderate-income persons.
(iii) The units in the development that are affordable to, and
occupied by, low- or moderate-income persons shall remain affordable
for a period of at least 55 years.
(iv) The agency and the City of Walnut Creek shall determine, if
applicable, whether Article XXXIV of the California Constitution
permits the development.
(h) The Legislature finds and declares that expenditures or
obligations incurred by the agency pursuant to this section shall
constitute an indebtedness of the project.
(i) This section shall only apply to taxes allocated to a
redevelopment agency for which a final redevelopment plan is adopted
on or after January 1, 1977, or for any area that is added to a
project by an amendment to a redevelopment plan, which amendment is
adopted on or after the effective date of this section. An agency
may, by resolution, elect to make all or part of the requirements of
this section applicable to any redevelopment project for which a
redevelopment plan was adopted prior to January 1, 1977, subject to
any indebtedness incurred prior to the election.
(j) (1) (A) An action to compel compliance with the requirement of
Section 33334.3 to deposit not less than 20 percent of all taxes
that are allocated to the agency pursuant to Section 33670 in the Low
and Moderate Income Housing Fund shall be commenced within 10 years
of the alleged violation. A cause of action for a violation accrues
on the last day of the fiscal year in which the funds were required
to be deposited in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund.
(B) An action to compel compliance with the requirement of this
section or Section 33334.6 that money deposited in the Low and
Moderate Income Housing Fund be used by the agency for purposes of
increasing, improving, and preserving the community's supply of low-
and moderate-income housing available at affordable housing cost
shall be commenced within 10 years of the alleged violation. A cause
of action for a violation accrues on the date of the actual
expenditure of the funds.
(C) An agency found to have deposited less into the Low and
Moderate Income Housing Fund than mandated by Section 33334.3 or to
have spent money from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund for
purposes other than increasing, improving, and preserving the
community's supply of low- and moderate-income housing, as mandated,
by this section or Section 33334.3 or 33334.6 shall repay
the funds with interest , plus an additional 50 percent of that
amount and interest, in one lump sum pursuant to Section 970.4
or 970.5 of the Government Code or may do either of the following:
(i) Petition the court under Section 970.6 for repayment in
installments.
(ii) Repay the portion of the judgment due to the Low and Moderate
Income Housing Fund in equal installments over a period of five
years following the judgment.
(2) Repayment shall not be made from the funds required to be set
aside or used for low- and moderate-income housing pursuant to this
section.
(3) Notwithstanding clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (C) of
paragraph (1), all costs, including reasonable attorney's fees if
included in the judgment, are due and shall be paid upon entry of
judgment or order.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, Chapter 2
(commencing with Section 970) of Part 5 of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of
the Government Code for the enforcement of a judgment against a
local public entity applies to a judgment against a local public
entity that violates this section.
(5) This subdivision applies to actions filed on and after January
1, 2006.
(6) The limitations period specified in subparagraphs (A) and (B)
of paragraph (1) does not apply to a cause of action brought pursuant
to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of
the Code of Civil Procedure.
(k) (1) From July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010, inclusive, an agency
may suspend all or part of its required allocation to the Low and
Moderate Income Housing Fund from taxes that are allocated to that
agency pursuant to Section 33670.
(2) An agency that suspends revenue pursuant to paragraph (1)
shall pay back to its low- and moderate-income housing fund the
amount of revenue that was suspended in the 2009-10 fiscal year
pursuant to this subdivision from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2015,
inclusive.
(3) An agency that suspends revenue pursuant to paragraph (1) and
fails to repay or have repaid on its behalf the amount of revenue
suspended pursuant to paragraph (2) shall, commencing July 1, 2015,
be required to allocate an additional 5 percent of all taxes that are
allocated to that agency pursuant to Section 33670 for low- and
moderate-income housing for the remainder of the time that the agency
receives allocations of tax revenue pursuant to Section 33670.
(4) An agency that fails to pay or have paid on its behalf the
full amount calculated pursuant to subparagraph (J) of paragraph (2)
of subdivision (a) of Section 33690, or subparagraph (J) of paragraph
(2) of subdivision (a) of Section 33690.5, as the case may be,
shall, commencing July 1, 2010, or July 1, 2011, as applicable, be
required to allocate an additional 5 percent of all taxes that are
allocated to that agency pursuant to Section 33670 for low- and
moderate-income housing for the remainder of the time that the agency
receives allocations of tax revenue pursuant to Section 33670.
SEC. 9. Section 33334.3 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
33334.3. (a) The funds that are required by Section 33334.2 or
33334.6 to be used for the purposes of increasing, improving, and
preserving the community's supply of low- and moderate-income housing
shall be held in a separate Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund
until used.
(b) Any interest earned by the Low and Moderate Income Housing
Fund and any repayments or other income to the agency for loans,
advances, or grants, of any kind from the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund, shall accrue to and be deposited in, the fund and may
only be used in the manner prescribed for the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund.
(c) The moneys in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund shall
be used to increase, improve, and preserve the supply of low- and
moderate-income housing within the territorial jurisdiction of the
agency.
(d) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Low and Moderate
Income Housing Fund be used to the maximum extent possible to defray
the costs of production, improvement, and preservation of low- and
moderate-income housing and that the amount of money spent for
planning and general administrative activities associated with the
development, improvement, and preservation of that housing not be
disproportionate to the amount actually spent for the costs of
production, improvement, or preservation of that housing. The agency
shall determine annually that the planning and administrative
expenses are necessary for the production, improvement, or
preservation of low- and moderate-income housing.
(e) (1) Planning and general administrative costs which may be
paid with moneys from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund are
those expenses incurred by the agency which are directly related to
the programs and activities authorized under subdivision (e) of
Section 33334.2 and are limited to the following:
(A) Costs incurred for salaries, wages, and related costs of the
agency's staff or for services provided through interagency
agreements, and agreements with contractors, including usual indirect
costs related thereto.
(B) Costs incurred by a nonprofit corporation which are not
directly attributable to a specific project.
(2) Legal, architectural, and engineering costs and other
salaries, wages, and costs directly related to the planning and
execution of a specific project that are authorized under subdivision
(e) of Section 33334.2 and that are incurred by a nonprofit housing
sponsor are not planning and administrative costs for the purposes of
this section, but are instead project costs.
(d) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Low and
Moderate Income Housing Fund be used to the maximum extent possible
to defray the actual cost of producing, improving, or preserving low-
and moderate-income housing and to reasonably restrict the use of
Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund moneys for planning and general
administrative costs. Subject to the restrictions set forth in
paragraph (2), all of the following costs shall be considered
planning and general administrative costs for the purposes of funds
paid from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund:
(A) Employee compensation costs, including salaries, wages, and
benefits, and related nonpersonnel costs, including, but not limited
to, travel, training, publications, and conferences, paid to or on
behalf of any agency, city, or county employee whose duties include
activities authorized under subdivision (e) of Section 33334.2. If
the employee spends any time on matters other than those authorized
under subdivision (e) of Section 33334.2, Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund moneys may only be used to pay for employee compensation
and related nonpersonnel costs in proportion to the actual time that
the employee spends on activities authorized under subdivision (e)
of Section 33334.2.
(B) Employee compensation costs, including salaries, wages, and
benefits, paid to or on behalf of any agency, city, or county
employee who supervises or manages the work of an employee or
employees specified in subparagraph (A) or who provides general
administrative services, including, but not limited to, finance,
legal, human resources, information technology, and other
administrative services, that indirectly support activities
authorized under subdivision (e) of Section 33334.2 and nonpersonnel
costs, including, but not limited to, travel, training, publications,
and conferences, for such employees that are directly related to
such activities. Employee compensation costs shall (i) be justified
by an independent cost allocation study no more than six years old,
and (ii) not represent a greater proportion of the employee's total
compensation than the proportion of employees working directly and
exclusively on activities authorized under subdivision (e) of Section
33334.2 in comparison to the total number of employees supervised,
managed, or indirectly supported by that employee.
(C) Overhead costs, including, but not limited to, rent or
mortgage payments, equipment, and office supplies, provided that if
the overhead costs are shared with departments or employees whose
duties include activities other than those authorized under
subdivision (e) of Section 33334.2. The proportion of the overhead
costs paid from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund shall not
exceed the proportion of employees working directly and exclusively
on activities authorized under subdivision (e) of Section 33334.2
represented in comparison to the total number of employees sharing
the space, equipment, or office supplies.
(D) The total value of any contracts for agency planning or
administrative services that are directly related to activities
authorized under subdivision (e) of Section 33334.2 and that are not
associated with a specific development project or program to meet the
requirements of Sections 33334.2, 33334.3, 33412, and 33413.
(2) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), an agency in any
fiscal year shall not expend more than 15 percent of the tax
increment deposited into the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund for
planning and general administrative costs.
(B) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to a project area-specific
Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund during the first five fiscal
years after adoption of that specific project area. Subparagraph (A)
shall apply to a new or amended project area if tax increment for
that new or amended project area is deposited into an aggregate Low
and Moderate Income Housing Fund covering more than one project area.
(3) At the time the budget is adopted, the agency shall annually
adopt a separate written resolution making a finding, based on
substantial evidence in the record, that the planning and general
administrative expenses budgeted for the fiscal year to be paid from
the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund shall not exceed 15 percent
of the tax increment to be deposited into the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund for that fiscal year or that the exception in
subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) applies. The resolution shall do
all of the following:
(A) State the percentage of tax increment to be deposited into the
Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund that is budgeted for planning
and general administration in the fiscal year.
(B) Be consistent with paragraph (1), itemize each category of
planning and general administration expenditures from the Low and
Moderate Income Housing Fund and explicitly describe how the
expenditures are necessary for the production, improvement, or
preservation of low- and moderate-income housing.
(C) List the title of any agency, city, or county employees for
whom any portion of his or her salary, wages, benefits, or
nonpersonnel costs is paid from the Low and Moderate Income Housing
Fund, the nature of the employee's activities eligible to be paid
from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, the percentage of time
the employees spends on activities eligible to be paid from the Low
and Moderate Income Housing Fund, and the percentage of the employee'
s salary, wages, benefits, and nonpersonnel costs paid from the Low
and Moderate Income Housing Fund.
(D) List any overhead costs that are paid directly or indirectly
from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, identify by title and
department any other employees with whom the overhead costs are
shared, and specify the total cost of the shared overhead costs.
(e) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (d), the agency
shall not expend moneys from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund
for any of the following purposes:
(1) Code enforcement.
(2) Land use planning activities of a planning department,
including development or revision of the general plan housing
element, except for the payment of normal project-related planning
fees applicable to all similar development projects.
(3) Lobbying. The Legislature finds and declares that this
paragraph is declaratory of existing law.
(4) Administration of nonredevelopment activities, including
housing programs funded with federal, state, or local funds.
(5) Direct or indirect administration of an activity authorized
under subdivision (e) of Section 33334.2 but that is not funded with
Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund moneys.
(f) (1) The requirements of this subdivision apply to all new or
substantially rehabilitated housing units developed or otherwise
assisted with moneys from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund,
pursuant to an agreement approved by an agency on or after January 1,
1988. Except to the extent that a longer period of time may be
required by other provisions of law, the agency shall require that
housing units subject to this subdivision shall remain available at
affordable housing cost to, and occupied by, persons and families of
low or moderate
income and very low income and extremely low income households for
the longest feasible time, but for not less than the following
periods of time:
(A) Fifty-five years for rental units. However, the agency may
replace rental units with equally affordable and comparable rental
units in another location within the community if (i) the replacement
units are available for occupancy prior to the displacement of any
persons and families of low or moderate income residing in the units
to be replaced and (ii) the comparable replacement units are not
developed with moneys from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund.
(B) Forty-five years for owner-occupied units. However, the agency
may permit sales of owner-occupied units prior to the expiration of
the 45-year period for a price in excess of that otherwise permitted
under this subdivision pursuant to an adopted program which protects
the agency's investment of moneys from the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund, including, but not limited to, an equity sharing
program which establishes a schedule of equity sharing that permits
retention by the seller of a portion of those excess proceeds based
on the length of occupancy. The remainder of the excess proceeds of
the sale shall be allocated to the agency and deposited in the Low
and Moderate Income Housing Fund. Only the units originally assisted
by the agency shall be counted towards the agency's obligations under
Section 33413.
(C) Fifteen years for mutual self-help housing units that are
occupied by and affordable to very low and low-income households.
However, the agency may permit sales of mutual self-help housing
units prior to expiration of the 15-year period for a price in excess
of that otherwise permitted under this subdivision pursuant to an
adopted program that (i) protects the agency's investment of moneys
from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, including, but not
limited to, an equity sharing program that establishes a schedule of
equity sharing that permits retention by the seller of a portion of
those excess proceeds based on the length of occupancy; and (ii)
ensures through a recorded regulatory agreement, deed of trust, or
similar recorded instrument that if a mutual self-help housing unit
is sold at any time after expiration of the 15-year period and prior
to 45 years after the date of recording of the covenants or
restrictions required pursuant to paragraph (2), the agency recovers,
at a minimum, its original principal from the Low and Moderate
Income Housing Fund from the proceeds of the sale and deposits those
funds into the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. The remainder of
the excess proceeds of the sale not retained by the seller shall be
allocated to the agency and deposited in the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund. For the purposes of this subparagraph, "mutual
self-help housing unit" means an owner-occupied housing unit for
which persons and families of very low and low income contribute no
fewer than 500 hours of their own labor in individual or group
efforts to provide a decent, safe, and sanitary ownership housing
unit for themselves, their families, and others authorized to occupy
that unit. Nothing in this subparagraph precludes the agency and the
developer of the mutual self-help housing units from agreeing to
45-year deed restrictions.
(2) If land on which those dwelling units are located is deleted
from the project area, the agency shall continue to require that
those units remain affordable as specified in this subdivision.
(3) The agency shall require the recording in the office of the
county recorder of the following documents:
(A) The covenants or restrictions implementing this subdivision
for each parcel or unit of real property subject to this subdivision.
The agency shall obtain and maintain a copy of the recorded
covenants or restrictions for not less than the life of the covenant
or restriction.
(B) For all new or substantially rehabilitated units developed or
otherwise assisted with moneys from the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund on or after January 1, 2008, a separate document called
"Notice of Affordability Restrictions on Transfer of Property," set
forth in 14-point type or larger. This document shall contain all of
the following information:
(i) A recitation of the affordability covenants or restrictions.
If the document recorded under this subparagraph is recorded
concurrently with the covenants or restrictions recorded under
subparagraph (A), the recitation of the affordability covenants or
restrictions shall also reference the concurrently recorded document.
If the document recorded under this subparagraph is not recorded
concurrently with the covenants or restrictions recorded under
subparagraph (A), the recitation of the affordability covenants or
restrictions shall also reference the recorder's identification
number of the document recorded under subparagraph (A).
(ii) The date the covenants or restrictions expire.
(iii) The street address of the property, including, if
applicable, the unit number, unless the property is used to
confidentially house victims of domestic violence.
(iv) The assessor's parcel number for the property.
(v) The legal description of the property.
(4) The agency shall require the recording of the document
required under subparagraph (B) of paragraph (3) not more than 30
days after the date of recordation of the covenants or restrictions
required under subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3).
(5) The county recorder shall index the documents required to be
recorded under paragraph (3) by the agency and current owner.
(6) Notwithstanding Section 27383 of the Government Code, a county
recorder may charge all authorized recording fees to any party,
including a public agency, for recording the document specified in
subparagraph (B) of paragraph (3).
(7) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the covenants or
restrictions implementing this subdivision shall run with the land
and shall be enforceable against any owner who violates a covenant or
restriction and each successor in interest who continues the
violation, by any of the following:
(A) The agency.
(B) The community, as defined in Section 33002.
(C) A resident of a unit subject to this subdivision.
(D) A residents' association with members who reside in units
subject to this subdivision.
(E) A former resident of a unit subject to this subdivision who
last resided in that unit.
(F) An applicant seeking to enforce the covenants or restrictions
for a particular unit that is subject to this subdivision, if the
applicant conforms to all of the following:
(i) Is of low or moderate income, as defined in Section 50093.
(ii) Is able and willing to occupy that particular unit.
(iii) Was denied occupancy of that particular unit due to an
alleged breach of a covenant or restriction implementing this
subdivision.
(G) A person on an affordable housing waiting list who is of low
or moderate income, as defined in Section 50093, and who is able and
willing to occupy a unit subject to this subdivision.
(8) A dwelling unit shall not be counted as satisfying the
affordable housing requirements of this part, unless covenants for
that dwelling unit are recorded in compliance with subparagraph (A)
of paragraph (3).
(9) Failure to comply with the requirements of subparagraph (B) of
paragraph (3) shall not invalidate any covenants or restrictions
recorded pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3).
(g) "Housing," as used in this section, includes residential
hotels, as defined in subdivision (k) of Section 37912. The
definitions of "lower income households," "very low income
households," and "extremely low income households" in Sections
50079.5, 50105, and 50106 shall apply to this section. "Longest
feasible time," as used in this section, includes, but is not limited
to, unlimited duration.
(h) "Increasing, improving, and preserving the community's supply
of low- and moderate-income housing," as used in this section and in
Section 33334.2, includes the preservation of rental housing units
assisted by federal, state, or local government on the condition that
units remain affordable to, and occupied by, low- and
moderate-income households, including extremely low and very low
income households, for the longest feasible time, but not less than
55 years, beyond the date the subsidies and use restrictions could be
terminated and the assisted housing units converted to market rate
rentals. In preserving these units the agency shall require that the
units remain affordable to, and occupied by, persons and families of
low- and moderate-income and extremely low and very low income
households for the longest feasible time but not less than 55 years.
However, the agency may replace rental units with equally affordable
and comparable rental units in another location within the community
if (1) the replacement units in another location are available for
occupancy prior to the displacement of any persons and families of
low or moderate income residing in the units to be replaced and (2)
the comparable replacement units are not developed with moneys from
the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund.
(i) Agencies that have more than one project area may satisfy the
requirements of Sections 33334.2 and 33334.6 and of this section by
allocating, in any fiscal year, less than 20 percent in one project
area, if the difference between the amount allocated and the 20
percent required is instead allocated, in that same fiscal year, to
the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund from tax increment revenues
from other project areas. Prior to allocating funds pursuant to this
subdivision, the agency shall make the finding required by
subdivision (g) of Section 33334.2.
(j) Funds from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund shall not
be used to the extent that other reasonable means of private or
commercial financing of the new or substantially rehabilitated units
at the same level of affordability and quantity are reasonably
available to the agency or to the owner of the units. Prior to the
expenditure of funds from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund
for new or substantially rehabilitated housing units, where those
funds will exceed 50 percent of the cost of producing the units, the
agency shall find, based on substantial evidence, that the use of the
funds is necessary because the agency or owner of the units has made
a good faith attempt but been unable to obtain commercial or private
means of financing the units at the same level of affordability and
quantity.
SEC. 10. Section 33334.4 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
33334.4. (a) Except as specified in subdivision (d),
each agency shall expend over during each
10-year period of the implementation plan, as specified in clause
(iii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of
Section 33490, the moneys in at least 70
percent of each agency's expenditures from the Low and Moderate
Income Housing Fund to shall directly
assist the new construction, acquisition, and substantial
rehabilitation or preservation of rental housing for persons of
extremely low, very low, or low income and
housing for persons of very low income in at least the same
proportion as the total number of housing units needed for each of
those income groups bears to the total number of units needed for
persons of moderate, low, and very low income within the community,
as those needs have been determined for the community pursuant to
Section 65584 of the Government Code. In determining compliance with
this obligation, the agency may adjust the proportion by subtracting
from the need identified for each income category, the number of
units for persons of that income category that are newly constructed
over the duration of the implementation plan with other locally
controlled government assistance and without agency assistance and
that are required to be affordable to, and occupied by, persons of
the income category for at least 55 years for rental housing and 45
years for ownership housing, except that in making an adjustment the
agency may not subtract units developed pursuant to a replacement
housing obligation under state or federal law and at
least 20 percent of these expenditures shall directly assist the new
construction, acquisition, and substantial rehabilitation, or
preservation of rental housing for persons of extremely low income.
The expenditures for extremely low income rental housing shall count
towards the requirement to directly assist very low and low-income
rental housing. For purposes of this subdivision,
"preservation" means preserving the affordability of an assisted
housing development that is eligible for prepayment or termination or
for which within the expiration of rental restrictions is scheduled
to occur within five years, as those terms are defined in Section
65863.10 of the Government Code .
(b) Each agency shall expend over the duration of each
redevelopment implementation plan, the moneys in the Low and Moderate
Income Housing Fund to assist housing that is available to all
persons regardless of age in at least the same proportion as the
number of low-income households with a member under age 65 years
bears to the total number of low-income households of the community
as reported in the most recent census of the United States Census
Bureau.
(c) An agency that has deposited in the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund over the first five years of the period of an
implementation plan an aggregate that is less than two million
dollars ($2,000,000) shall have an extra five years to meet the
requirements of this section.
(d) For the purposes of this section, "locally controlled" means
government assistance where the community or other local government
entity has the discretion and the authority to determine the
recipient and the amount of the assistance, whether or not the source
of the funds or other assistance is from the state or federal
government. Examples of locally controlled government assistance
include, but are not limited to, Community Development Block Grant
Program (42 U.S.C. Sec. 5301 and following) funds allocated to a city
or county, Home Investment Partnership Program (42 U.S.C. Sec. 12721
and following) funds allocated to a city or county, fees or funds
received by a city or county pursuant to a city or county authorized
program, and the waiver or deferral of city or other charges.
SEC. 11. Section 33334.12 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
33334.12. (a) (1) Upon failure of the agency to expend or
encumber excess surplus in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund
within one year from the date the moneys become excess surplus, as
defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (g), the agency shall do
either of the following:
(A) Disburse voluntarily its excess surplus to the county housing
authority or to another public agency exercising housing development
powers within the territorial jurisdiction of the agency in
accordance with subdivision (b).
(B) Expend or encumber its excess surplus within two additional
years.
(2)
33334.12. (a) If an agency,
after three years has elapsed from the date that the moneys become
excess surplus, has not expended or encumbered its excess surplus,
the agency shall be subject to sanctions pursuant to subdivision
(e) (b) , until the agency has expended
or encumbered its excess surplus plus an additional amount, equal to
50 percent of the amount of the excess surplus that remains at the
end of the three-year period. The additional expenditure shall not be
from the agency's Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, but shall be
used in a manner that meets all requirements for expenditures from
that fund.
(b) The housing authority or other public agency to which the
money is transferred shall utilize the moneys for the purposes of,
and subject to the same restrictions that are applicable to, the
redevelopment agency under this part, and for that purpose may
exercise all of the powers of a housing authority under Part 2
(commencing with Section 34200) to an extent not inconsistent with
these limitations.
(c) Notwithstanding Section 34209 or any other provision of law,
for the purpose of accepting a transfer of, and using, moneys
pursuant to this section, the housing authority of a county or other
public agency may exercise its powers within the territorial
jurisdiction of a city redevelopment agency located in that county.
(d) The amount of excess surplus that shall be transferred to the
housing authority or other public agency because of a failure of the
redevelopment agency to expend or encumber excess surplus within one
year shall be the amount of the excess surplus that is not so
expended or encumbered. The housing authority or other public agency
to which the moneys are transferred shall expend or encumber these
moneys for authorized purposes not later than three years after the
date these moneys were transferred from the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund.
(e)
(b) (1) Until a time when the agency has expended or
encumbered excess surplus moneys pursuant to subdivision (a), the
agency shall be prohibited from encumbering any funds or expending
any moneys derived from any source, except that the agency may
encumber funds and expend moneys to pay the following obligations, if
any, that were incurred by the agency prior to three years from the
date the moneys became excess surplus:
(A) Bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures, or other
obligations issued by an agency, whether funded, refunded, assumed,
or otherwise, pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 33640).
(B) Loans or moneys advanced to the agency, including, but not
limited to, loans from federal, state, or local agencies, or a
private entity.
(C) Contractual obligations which, if breached, could subject the
agency to damages or other liabilities or remedies.
(D) Obligations incurred pursuant to Section 33445.
(E) Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 33334.2 or 33334.6.
(F) Obligations incurred pursuant to Section 33401.
(G) An amount, to be expended for the operation and administration
of the agency, that may not exceed 75 percent of the amount spent
for those purposes in the preceding fiscal year.
(2) This subdivision shall not be construed to prohibit the
expenditure of excess surplus funds or other funds to meet the
requirement in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a)
that the agency spend or encumber excess surplus funds, plus an
amount equal to 50 percent of excess surplus, prior to spending or
encumbering funds for any other purpose.
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit any
authority a redevelopment agency may have under other provisions of
this part to contract with a housing authority for increasing or
improving the community's supply of low- and moderate-income housing.
(g)
(c) For purposes of this section , the following
terms have the following meanings :
(1) "Excess surplus" means any unexpended and unencumbered amount
in an agency's Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund , plus the
amount of funds expended from the Low and Moderate Income Housing
Fund for real property that the agency owns and for which the agency
has not completed either of the activities described in subparagraphs
(A) and (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 33334.16,
that exceeds the greater of one million dollars ($1,000,000)
or the aggregate amount deposited into the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund pursuant to Sections 33334.2 and 33334.6 during the
agency's preceding four fiscal years. The first fiscal year to be
included in this computation is the 1989-90 fiscal year, and the
first date on which an excess surplus may exist is July 1, 1994.
(2) Moneys shall be deemed encumbered if committed pursuant to a
legally enforceable contract or agreement for expenditure for
purposes specified in Section 33334.2 or 33334.3.
(3) (A) For purposes of determining whether an excess surplus
exists, it is the intent of the Legislature to give credit to
agencies which convey land for less than fair market value, on which
low- and moderate-income housing is built or is to be built if at
least 49 percent of the units developed on the land are available at
affordable housing cost to lower income households for at least the
time specified in subdivision (e) of Section 33334.3, and otherwise
comply with all of the provisions of this division applicable to
expenditures of moneys from a low- and moderate-income housing fund
established pursuant to Section 33334.3. Therefore, for the sole
purpose of determining the amount, if any, of an excess surplus, an
agency may make the following calculation: if an agency sells,
leases, or grants land acquired with moneys from the Low and Moderate
Income Housing Fund, established pursuant to Section 33334.3, for an
amount which is below fair market value, and if at least 49 percent
of the units constructed or rehabilitated on the land are affordable
to lower income households, as defined in Section 50079.5, the
difference between the fair market value of the land and the amount
the agency receives may be subtracted from the amount of moneys in an
agency's Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund.
(B) If taxes that are deposited in the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund are used as security for bonds or other indebtedness,
the proceeds of the bonds or other indebtedness, and income and
expenditures related to those proceeds, shall not be counted in
determining whether an excess surplus exists. The unspent portion of
the proceeds of bonds or other indebtedness, and income related
thereto, shall be excluded from the calculation of the unexpended and
unencumbered amount in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund when
determining whether an excess surplus exists.
(C) Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to restrict the
authority of an agency provided in any other provision of this part
to expend funds from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund.
(D) The department shall develop and periodically revise the
methodology to be used in the calculation of excess surplus as
required by this section. The director shall appoint an advisory
committee to advise in the development of this methodology. The
advisory committee shall include department staff, affordable housing
advocates, and representatives of the California Redevelopment
Association, the California Society of Certified Public Accountants,
the Controller, and any other authorities or persons interested in
the field that the director deems necessary and appropriate.
(h)
(d) Communities in which an agency has disbursed excess
surplus funds pursuant to this section shall not disapprove a low-
or moderate-income housing project funded in whole or in part by the
excess surplus funds if the project is consistent with applicable
building codes and the land use designation specified in any element
of the general plan as it existed on the date the application was
deemed complete. A local agency may require compliance with local
development standards and policies appropriate to and consistent with
meeting the quantified objectives relative to the development of
housing, as required in housing elements of the community pursuant to
subdivision (b) of Section 65583 of the Government Code.
(i) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), any agency that has funds
that become excess surplus on July 1, 1994, shall have, pursuant to
subdivision (a), until January 1, 1995, to decide to transfer the
funds to a housing authority or other public agency, or until January
1, 1997, to expend or encumber those funds, or face sanctions
pursuant to subdivision (e).
SEC. 12. Section 33334.16 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
33334.16. (a) (1) For
each interest in real property acquired using moneys from the Low
and Moderate Income Housing Fund, the agency shall, within five years
from the date it first acquires the property interest for the
development of housing affordable to persons and families of low and
moderate income, initiate activities consistent with the
development of the property for that purpose. These activities may
include, but are not limited to, zoning changes or agreements entered
into for the development and disposition of the property. If
complete either of the following activities:
(A) Enter into a disposition and development agreement with a
third party for the development of housing affordable to persons and
families of low and moderate income.
(B) Obtain final land use entitlements and secure full financing
for agency development of housing affordable to persons and families
of low and moderate income.
(2) If these activities have not
been initiated within this period, the legislative body may,
by resolution, extend the period during which the agency may retain
the property for one additional period not to exceed five years. The
resolution of extension shall affirm the intention of the legislative
body that the property be used for the development of housing
affordable to persons and families of low and moderate income. In the
event that physical development of the property for this purpose has
not begun by the end of the extended period, or if the agency does
not comply with this requirement, the property shall be sold and the
moneys from the sale, less reimbursement to the agency for the cost
of the sale, shall be deposited in the agency's Low and Moderate
Income Housing Fund completed within this period or if
a certificate of occupancy has not been issued within 10 years from
the date of acquisition,
the agency shall reimburse the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund
150 percent of the amount expended to acquire the property or the
current fair market value of the property, whichever amount is
greater .
(b) At any time, if a real property acquired using moneys from the
Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund is sold or transferred for a
purpose other than housing affordable to persons and families of low
and moderate income, or if the real property is developed such that
less than 50 percent of the floor area is housing affordable to
persons and families of low and moderate income, the agency, in
addition to proceeds from the sale or transfer, shall deposit into
the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund from agency revenues other
than those required to be deposited in the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund an amount equal to 50 percent of the sale price of the
property or, if the property is not sold, of the fair market value of
the land at the time a building permit is issued for the property.
SEC. 13. Section 33413 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to
read:
33413. (a) Whenever dwelling units housing
affordable to or occupied by persons and families of low
or moderate income are destroyed or removed from the low- and
moderate-income housing market as part of a redevelopment project
that is subject to a written agreement with the agency or where
financial assistance has been provided by the agency, the agency
shall, within four years of the destruction or removal, rehabilitate,
develop, or construct, or cause to be rehabilitated,
developed, or constructed, for rental or sale to persons
and families of low or moderate income, an equal number of
replacement dwelling units that have an equal or greater number of
bedrooms as those destroyed or removed units at affordable housing
costs within the territorial jurisdiction of the agency.
When The replacement obligation shall apply to all
units affordable to low or moderate income persons or families at the
time of initiation of negotiations of a written agreement with or
financial assistance from the agency.
(1) When dwelling units are
destroyed or removed after September 1, 1989, 75 percent of the
replacement dwelling units shall replace dwelling units available at
affordable housing cost in the same or a lower income level
of very low income households, lower income households, and persons
and families of low and moderate income, (extremely
low, very low, low, or moderate) as the persons displaced from
those destroyed or removed units. When
(2) When dwelling units are
destroyed or removed on or after January 1, 2002, 100 percent of the
replacement dwelling units shall be available at affordable housing
cost to persons in the same or a lower income category (
extremely low, very low, or low, or
moderate), as the persons displaced from those destroyed or
removed units.
(3) In the case where the agency is obligated to replace vacant
units or units housing persons above moderate income, such
replacement units shall be available at housing costs in the same or
lower income category (extremely low, very low, low, or moderate) in
the same proportion as the units occupied by low- and moderate-income
households in the property.
(4) Replacement dwelling units shall be located in the same
project area as the units demolished or removed.
(5) Up to 25 percent of the replacement obligation incurred during
a five-year implementation plan may be satisfied with units that
have been rehabilitated such that after-rehabilitation value is
increased by 50 percent or more of the pre-rehabilitation value, as
evidenced by pre and post rehabilitation appraisals and, the
rehabilitated units were, at the time the dwelling units to be
replaced were destroyed or removed were both of the following:
(A) Occupied by extremely low or very low income households at
risk of demolition or closure due to substandard conditions.
(B) Vacant due to substandard conditions as defined in Section
1941.1 of the Civil Code.
(6) For each project containing rehabilitated replacement units,
the agency shall adopt a separate written resolution, after public
hearing and based on substantial evidence, that the rehabilitation of
the replacement dwelling units complies with this subdivision.
(b) (1) Prior to the time limit on the effectiveness of the
redevelopment plan established pursuant to Sections 33333.2, 33333.6,
and 33333.10 at least 30 percent of all new and substantially
rehabilitated dwelling units developed by an agency shall be
available at affordable housing cost to, and occupied by, persons and
families of low or moderate income. Not less than 50 percent of the
dwelling units required to be available at affordable housing cost
to, and occupied by, persons and families of low or moderate income
shall be available at affordable housing cost to, and occupied by,
very low income households.
(2) (A) (i) Prior to the time limit on the effectiveness of the
redevelopment plan established pursuant to Sections 33333.2, 33333.6,
and 33333.10 at least 15 percent of all new and substantially
rehabilitated dwelling units developed within a project area under
the jurisdiction of an agency by public or private entities or
persons other than the agency shall be available at affordable
housing cost to, and occupied by, persons and families of low or
moderate income. Not less than 40 percent of the dwelling units
required to be available at affordable housing cost to, and occupied
by, persons and families of low or moderate income shall be available
at affordable housing cost to, and occupied by, very low income
households.
(ii) To satisfy this paragraph, in whole or in part, the agency
may cause, by regulation or agreement, to be available, at affordable
housing cost, to, and occupied by, persons and families of low or
moderate income or to very low income households, as applicable, two
units outside a project area for each unit that otherwise would have
been required to be available inside a project area.
(iii) On or after January 1, 2002, as used in this paragraph and
in paragraph (1), "substantially rehabilitated dwelling units" means
all units substantially rehabilitated, with agency assistance. Prior
to January 1, 2002, "substantially rehabilitated dwelling units"
shall mean substantially rehabilitated multifamily rented dwelling
units with three or more units regardless of whether there is agency
assistance, or substantially rehabilitated, with agency assistance,
single-family dwelling units with one or two units.
(iv) As used in this paragraph and in paragraph (1), "substantial
rehabilitation" means rehabilitation, the value of which constitutes
25 percent of the after rehabilitation value of the dwelling,
inclusive of the land value.
(v) To satisfy this paragraph, the agency may aggregate new or
substantially rehabilitated dwelling units in one or more project
areas, if the agency finds, based on substantial evidence, after a
public hearing, that the aggregation will not cause or exacerbate
racial, ethnic, or economic segregation.
(B) To satisfy the requirements of paragraph (1) and subparagraph
(A), the agency may purchase, or otherwise acquire or cause by
regulation or agreement the purchase or other acquisition of,
long-term affordability covenants on multifamily units that restrict
the cost of renting or purchasing those units that either: (i) are
not presently available at affordable housing cost to persons and
families of low or very low income households, as applicable; or (ii)
are units that are presently available at affordable housing cost to
this same group of persons or families, but are units that the
agency finds, based upon substantial evidence, after a public
hearing, cannot reasonably be expected to remain affordable to this
same group of persons or families.
(C) To satisfy the requirements of paragraph (1) and subparagraph
(A), the long-term affordability covenants purchased or otherwise
acquired pursuant to subparagraph (B) shall be required to be
maintained on dwelling units at affordable housing cost to, and
occupied by, persons and families of low or very low income, for the
longest feasible time but not less than 55 years for rental units and
45 years for owner-occupied units. Not more than 50 percent of the
units made available pursuant to paragraph (1) and subparagraph (A)
may be assisted through the purchase or acquisition of long-term
affordability covenants pursuant to subparagraph (B). Not less than
50 percent of the units made available through the purchase or
acquisition of long-term affordability covenants pursuant to
subparagraph (B) shall be available at affordable housing cost to,
and occupied by, very low income households.
(D) To satisfy the requirements of paragraph (1) and subparagraph
(A), each mutual self-help housing unit, as defined in subparagraph
(C) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) of Section 33334.3, that is
subject to a 15-year deed restriction shall count as one-third of a
unit.
(3) The requirements of this subdivision shall apply independently
of the requirements of subdivision (a). The requirements of this
subdivision shall apply, in the aggregate, to housing made available
pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively, and not to each
individual case of rehabilitation, development, or construction of
dwelling units, unless an agency determines otherwise.
(4) Each redevelopment agency, as part of the implementation plan
required by Section 33490, shall adopt a plan to comply with the
requirements of this subdivision for each project area. The plan
shall be consistent with, and may be included within, the community's
housing element. The plan shall be reviewed and, if necessary,
amended at least every five years in conjunction with either the
housing element cycle or the plan implementation cycle. The plan
shall ensure that the requirements of this subdivision are met every
10 years. If the requirements of this subdivision are not met by the
end of each 10-year period, the agency shall meet these goals on an
annual basis until the requirements for the 10-year period are met.
If the agency has exceeded the requirements within the 10-year
period, the agency may count the units that exceed the requirement in
order to meet the requirements during the next 10-year period. The
plan shall contain the contents required by paragraphs (2), (3), and
(4) of subdivision (a) of Section 33490.
(c) (1) The agency shall require that the aggregate number of
replacement dwelling units and other dwelling units rehabilitated,
developed, constructed, or price restricted pursuant to subdivision
(a) or (b) remain available at affordable housing cost to, and
occupied by, persons and families of low-income, moderate-income, and
very low income households, respectively, for the longest feasible
time, but for not less than 55 years for rental units, 45 years for
home ownership units, and 15 years for mutual self-help housing
units, as defined in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) of subdivision
(f) of Section 33334.3, except as set forth in paragraph (2).
Nothing in this paragraph precludes the agency and the developer of
the mutual self-help housing units from agreeing to 45-year deed
restrictions.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the agency may permit sales of
owner-occupied units prior to the expiration of the 45-year period,
and mutual self-help housing units prior to the expiration of the
15-year period, established by the agency for a price in excess of
that otherwise permitted under this subdivision pursuant to an
adopted program that protects the agency's investment of moneys from
the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, including, but not limited
to, an equity sharing program that establishes a schedule of equity
sharing that permits retention by the seller of a portion of those
excess proceeds, based on the length of occupancy. The remainder of
the excess proceeds of the sale shall be allocated to the agency, and
deposited into the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. The agency
shall, within three years from the date of sale pursuant to this
paragraph of each home ownership or mutual self-help housing unit
subject to a 45-year deed restriction, and every third mutual
self-help housing unit subject to a 15-year deed restriction, expend
funds to make affordable an equal number of units at the same or
lowest income level as the unit or units sold pursuant to this
paragraph, for a period not less than the duration of the original
deed restrictions. Only the units originally assisted by the agency
shall be counted towards the agency's obligations under Section
33413.
(3) The requirements of this section shall be made enforceable in
the same manner as provided in paragraph (7) of subdivision (f) of
Section 33334.3.
(4) If land on which the dwelling units required by this section
are located is deleted from the project area, the agency shall
continue to require that those units remain affordable as specified
in this subdivision.
(5) For each unit counted towards the requirements of subdivisions
(a) and (b), the agency shall require the recording in the office of
the county recorder of covenants or restrictions that ensure
compliance with this subdivision. With respect to covenants or
restrictions that are recorded on or after January 1, 2008, the
agency shall comply with the requirements of paragraphs (3) and (4)
of subdivision (f) of Section 33334.3.
(d) (1) This section applies only to redevelopment projects for
which a final redevelopment plan is adopted pursuant to Article 5
(commencing with Section 33360) on or after January 1, 1976, and to
areas that are added to a project area by amendment to a final
redevelopment plan adopted on or after January 1, 1976. In addition,
subdivision (a) shall apply to any other redevelopment project with
respect to dwelling units destroyed or removed from the low- and
moderate-income housing market on or after January 1, 1996,
irrespective of the date of adoption of a final redevelopment plan or
an amendment to a final redevelopment plan adding areas to a project
area. Additionally, any agency may, by resolution, elect to make all
or part of the requirements of this section applicable to any
redevelopment project of the agency for which the final redevelopment
plan was adopted prior to January 1, 1976. In addition, subdivision
(b) shall apply to redevelopment plans adopted prior to January 1,
1976, for which an amendment is adopted pursuant to Section 33333.10,
except that subdivision (b) shall apply to those redevelopment plans
prospectively only so that the requirements of subdivision (b) shall
apply only to new and substantially rehabilitated dwelling units for
which the building permits are issued on or after the date that the
ordinance adopting the amendment pursuant to Section 33333.10 becomes
effective.
(2) An agency may, by resolution, elect to require that whenever
dwelling units housing persons or families of low or moderate income
are destroyed or removed from the low- and moderate-income housing
market as part of a redevelopment project, the agency shall replace
each dwelling unit with up to three replacement dwelling units
pursuant to subdivision (a).
(e) Except as otherwise authorized by law, this section does not
authorize an agency to operate a rental housing development beyond
the period reasonably necessary to sell or lease the housing
development.
(f) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the agency may replace
destroyed or removed dwelling units with a fewer number of
replacement dwelling units if the replacement dwelling units meet
both of the following criteria:
(1) The total number of bedrooms in the replacement dwelling units
equals or exceeds the number of bedrooms in the destroyed or removed
units. Destroyed or removed units having one or no bedroom are
deemed for this purpose to have one bedroom.
(2) The replacement units are affordable to and occupied by the
same income level of households as the destroyed or removed units.
(g) "Longest feasible time," as used in this section, includes,
but is not limited to, unlimited duration.
(h) If a court finds that an agency has failed to comply with the
requirements of this section, the court, at a minimum, shall issue an
order that prohibits the agency from issuing any debt for any
project area, except debt from which all the proceeds will be
deposited into the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund or otherwise
used to comply with the requirements of this section, until such time
as the court finds that the agency has fully complied with the
requirements of this section.
SEC. 14. Section 33413.5 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
33413.5. Not less than 30 days prior to the execution of an
agreement for acquisition of real property, or the execution of an
agreement for the disposition and development of property,
or the execution of an owner participation agreement, which
agreement would lead to the destruction or removal of dwelling units
from the low- and moderate-income housing market, the agency shall
adopt by resolution a replacement housing plan. For a reasonable time
prior to adopting a replacement housing plan by resolution, the
agency shall make available a draft of the proposed replacement
housing plan for review and comment by the project area committee,
other public agencies, and the general public.
The replacement housing plan shall include (1) the general
location of housing to be rehabilitated, developed, or constructed
pursuant to Section 33413, (2) a description of the occupancy
and affordability restrictions to be imposed on the replacement
dwelling units, (3) substantial evidence supporting a finding that
the replacement dwelling units will meet the needs of the households
displaced from the dwelling units that the replacement units are
intended to replace, (4) a declaration of whether the agency intends
to rehabilitate existing dwelling units pursuant to paragraph (5) of
subdivision (a) of Section 33413, (5) a description of the occupancy
and affordability restrictions to be imposed on the replacement
dwelling units, (6) substantial evidence supporting a finding that
the replacement dwelling units will meet the needs of the households
displaced from the dwelling units that the replacement units are
intended to replace, (7) a declaration whether the agency
intends to rehabilitate existing dwelling units pursuant to paragraph
(5) of subdivision (a) of Section 33413, (8) an adequate means
of financing such rehabilitation, development, or construction,
(3) (9) a finding that the replacement
housing does not require the approval of the voters pursuant to
Article XXXIV of the California Constitution, or that such approval
has been obtained, (4) (10) the number
of dwelling units housing persons and families of low or moderate
income planned for construction or rehabilitation, and (5)
(11) the timetable for meeting the plan's
relocation, rehabilitation, and replacement housing objectives. A
dwelling unit whose replacement is required by Section 33413 but for
which no replacement housing plan has been prepared, shall not be
destroyed or removed from the low- and moderate-income housing market
until the agency has by resolution adopted a replacement housing
plan.
Nothing in this section shall prevent an agency from destroying or
removing from the low- and moderate-income housing market a dwelling
unit which the agency owns and which is an immediate danger to
health and safety. The agency shall, as soon as practicable, adopt by
resolution a replacement housing plan with respect to such dwelling
unit.
SEC. 15. Article 13 (commencing with Section 33460) is added to
Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
Article 13. Accountability Audits
33460. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares both of the
following:
(1) Past department audits of redevelopment agencies have
uncovered errors, omissions, and violations that have resulted in
significant repayments to agencies' Low and Moderate Income Housing
Fund, thereby providing additional resources for increasing,
improving, and preserving the supply of low- and moderate- income
housing available at affordable housing cost.
(2) Providing funding for future department audits of
redevelopment agencies will ensure that tax increment, interest, and
debt proceeds are appropriately deposited into the Low and Moderate
Income Housing Fund and that agencies make only legal expenditures
from the fund, thereby providing additional resources for increasing,
improving, and preserving the supply of low- and moderate-income
housing available at affordable housing cost. As a result, the
deposits required by this section are permissible pursuant to clause
(ii) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of
Section 25.5 of Article XIII of the California Constitution.
(b) Immediately upon receipt, each agency shall annually deposit
one-half of one-tenth percent of any tax increment deposited into the
Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund into the Redevelopment Agency
Accountability Fund created pursuant to Section 50464.5 to be used
solely for the purpose described in subdivision (b) of that section.
SEC. 16. Section 50464.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
50464.5. (a) The Redevelopment Agency Accountability Fund is
hereby created in the State Treasury and is available, upon
appropriation, to the department for the purposes of subdivision (b).
Notwithstanding Section 16305.7 of the Government Code, any moneys
received by the department pursuant to Section 33460, and any other
sources, repayments, interest, or new appropriations, shall be
deposited in the fund. Moneys in the fund shall not be subject to
transfer to any other fund pursuant to any provision of Part 2
(commencing with Section 16300) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the
Government Code, except the Surplus Money Investment Fund. The
department may require the transfer of moneys in the fund to the
Surplus Money Investment Fund for investment pursuant to Article 4
(commencing with Section 16470) of Chapter 3 of Part 2 of Division 4
of Title 2 of the Government Code. Notwithstanding Section 16305.7 of
the Government Code, all interest, dividends, and pecuniary gains
from the investments shall accrue to the fund.
(b) With funds made available pursuant to subdivision (a), the
department shall conduct audits of redevelopment agencies to ensure
compliance with the housing provisions of the Community Redevelopment
Law. The department shall include in the audits a review of agency
compliance with production and replacement housing obligations,
recording and monitoring of affordability covenants, provision of
relocation assistance, propriety of deposits to and expenditures from
the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, compliance with the debt
limit of the agency, adoption of a legally sufficient implementation
plan, each of the major audit violations pursuant to subdivision (j)
of Section 33080.8, and any other accounting practice or provision of
the Community Redevelopment Law in the discretion of the department.
The department shall require that each agency take action to correct
the audit violations. If the department determines that an agency
has not corrected the audit violations within 180 days of a final
audit report, it shall forward all relevant documents to the Attorney
General for action pursuant to Section 33080.9. The department shall
make available on its Internet Web site the final audit reports, a
statement of any resolution of audit reports, or if not resolved, the
date audit reports were forwarded to the Attorney General.
