Development projects: preliminary estimate of required improvements: onsite and offsite improvements.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide specific details on the consequences if local agencies do not comply with the bill's requirements.

Development Projects: Estimate of Required Improvements

The bill allows applicants to request an early estimate of improvements needed for housing projects and requires local agencies to provide this information within a set time frame.

What This Bill Does

• Allows people applying for permits for new housing developments to ask for an early estimate of the improvements they need to make both on their property (onsite) and in nearby areas (offsite).
• Requires cities, counties, or city and county governments to give this estimate within 30 business days after receiving a request.
• Also requires these local agencies to provide a detailed list of all required improvements when they consider an application complete for the next phase of permit approval.

Who It Names or Affects

• People applying for permits to build new housing developments
• Cities, counties, or city and county governments reviewing applications

Terms To Know

preliminary application

An early version of a permit application that includes basic information about the proposed project.

postentitlement phase permit

A later stage in the permitting process where more detailed requirements are set for the development project.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if local agencies do not provide the required estimates or lists within the given time frame.
• It is unclear how this new requirement will affect existing projects that were started before the bill was passed.
• There are no details on how local agencies will fund the additional work needed to comply with these requirements.

Official Summary Text

SB 1014, as amended, Grayson.
Development projects: preliminary estimate of required improvements: onsite and offsite improvements.
Existing law, the Permit Streamlining Act (act), sets forth various procedures for the review and approval of development project applications, including, among other things, requiring each public agency to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. The act also requires a city, county, or city and county to deem an applicant for a housing development project to have submitted a preliminary application upon providing specified information about the proposed project to the city, county, or city and county from which approval for the project is being sought.
This bill would permit
a development proponent that
an applicant who
submits a preliminary application for a housing development project, as specified, or an application if a preliminary application is not submitted, to include in the preliminary application or application a request for a preliminary estimate of required improvements, as provided. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county that receives a request under these provisions to provide the preliminary estimate within 30 business days of the submission of the request, as provided. The
bill would additionally require,
bill,
within 30 business days of
deeming
an application for a postentitlement phase
permit,
permit complete, would additionally require
the city, county, or city and county to provide the applicant with an itemized list of all onsite and offsite improvements that will be required prior to issuance of, or otherwise in connection with, that permit, as provided. The bill would define various terms for
purposes of its
these
purposes.
By imposing new duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
The
California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

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