Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation: judicial review.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on when the bill will start being used or who can pay for legal costs in a challenge.

Housing Element Judicial Review

The bill allows for judicial review of regional planning councils' final decisions on housing needs allocations.

What This Bill Does

• Provides that the final determination by regional planning councils regarding housing needs allocation is subject to judicial review.

Who It Names or Affects

• Regional planning councils
• Local governments

Terms To Know

Housing element

A part of a city or county's plan that discusses the types and amounts of homes needed.

Regional housing needs allocation

The process where regional councils decide how much new housing each local government should build based on what is needed in their area.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify when the bill will take effect.
• Does not address who can pay for legal costs if someone wants to challenge a decision in court.

Official Summary Text

SB 979, as introduced, Strickland.
Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation: judicial review.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, which includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the council of governments, to determine the existing and projected need of housing for each region, as provided. Existing law requires the council of governments or delegate subregion, as applicable, to adopt a final regional housing needs plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county.
Existing law requires each council of governments and delegate subregion to distribute a draft allocation of regional housing needs to each local government in the region or subregion. Existing law authorizes a local
government within the region or the delegate subregion or the department to appeal to the council of governments or the delegate subregion for a revision of the share of the regional housing need proposed to be allocated to one or more local governments, as specified. Existing law requires the council of governments or the delegate subregion to make a final determination that either accepts, rejects, or modifies each appeal, as provided.
This bill would provide that the final determination by the council of governments or the delegate subregion is subject to judicial review, as specified.

Current Bill Text

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