Plain English Breakdown
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Adaptive Reuse Streamlining and Incentives Act
This law creates a fast approval process for turning existing buildings into homes, sets rules for affordable housing units, limits parking requirements, and requires specific worker pay standards.
What This Bill Does
- Makes adaptive reuse projects allowed in all zones if they meet specific requirements, except industrial zones that do not allow residential uses.
- Requires rental housing projects to include either 8% of units for very low-income households plus 5% for extremely low-income households, or 15% of units for lower-income households.
- Removes the need for new parking spaces on parts of buildings being reused that did not have existing onsite parking.
- Allows developers to build new homes on empty land next to the reused building if certain conditions are met.
- Requires construction workers to receive prevailing wages and mandates health care spending standards.
Who It Names or Affects
- Developers who want to turn existing buildings into housing or mixed-use spaces.
- Local city and county governments that review building permit applications.
- Construction companies and workers on approved adaptive reuse projects.
- Low-income, very low-income, extremely low-income, moderate-income, and lower-income households seeking affordable homes.
Terms To Know
- Adaptive Reuse
- Changing an existing building for a new use, such as turning an old office into apartments.
- Ministerial Review
- A fast approval process where officials check if rules are met without holding public hearings or using personal judgment.
- Affidavit
- A written statement signed under penalty of perjury to confirm facts, such as following historic preservation standards.
Limits and Unknowns
- Projects cannot be approved in industrial zones that do not already allow residential uses.
- The law does not apply if a local government has its own ordinance with different rules, unless the applicant chooses to use this state process instead.
- Local governments cannot require changes to the outside shape of an existing building except as specifically allowed.