Planning and Zoning law: open-space zoning.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not provide specific details about what the non-substantive change entails, only that it is minor and does not alter existing protections or requirements significantly.

Open-Space Zoning Law Changes

AB-2177 makes a minor, non-substantial change to existing laws about open-space zoning in California.

What This Bill Does

• Makes a small, non-substantive change to the law that requires cities and counties to make rules for protecting open spaces by December 31, 1973.

Who It Names or Affects

• Cities and counties in California

Terms To Know

Open-space zoning ordinance

Rules made by cities or counties to protect areas like parks, forests, or farmland.

Just compensation

Fair payment given when the government takes private property for public use.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not change how cities and counties actually make open-space rules.
• It only makes a small, non-substantive change to existing laws.

Official Summary Text

AB 2177, as introduced, Bennett.
Planning and Zoning law: open-space zoning.
Existing law requires every city and county, by December 31, 1973, to prepare and adopt an open-space zoning ordinance consistent with the local open-space plan adopted pursuant to specified law. Existing law makes legislative findings that the provisions relating to open-space zoning are not intended, and shall not be construed, as authorizing the city or the county to exercise its power to adopt, amend or repeal an open-space zoning ordinance in a manner that will take or damage private property for public use without the payment of just compensation therefor.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.

Current Bill Text

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