CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 715Introduced by Senator AllenFebruary 21, 2025 An act to relating to housing. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 715, as introduced, Allen. Planning and zoning: regional housing need allocation.Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for the land use and development of the county or city that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires each local government to review its housing element as frequently as appropriate to evaluate, among other things, the appropriateness of the housing goals, objectives, and policies in contributing to the attainment of the state housing goal.Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, for the fourth and subsequent revisions of a housing element, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region in accordance with specified requirements. Existing law requires the appropriate council of governments, or, for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department, to adopt a final regional housing need allocation plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county at least one year prior to the scheduled revision of a housing element, as specified.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure post-disaster recovery, local environmental conditions, and climate change impacts are appropriately considered during regional housing need allocations.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure post-disaster recovery, local environmental conditions, and climate change impacts are appropriately considered during regional housing need allocations.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 715Introduced by Senator AllenFebruary 21, 2025 An act to relating to housing. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 715, as introduced, Allen. Planning and zoning: regional housing need allocation.Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for the land use and development of the county or city that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires each local government to review its housing element as frequently as appropriate to evaluate, among other things, the appropriateness of the housing goals, objectives, and policies in contributing to the attainment of the state housing goal.Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, for the fourth and subsequent revisions of a housing element, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region in accordance with specified requirements. Existing law requires the appropriate council of governments, or, for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department, to adopt a final regional housing need allocation plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county at least one year prior to the scheduled revision of a housing element, as specified.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure post-disaster recovery, local environmental conditions, and climate change impacts are appropriately considered during regional housing need allocations.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 715
Introduced by Senator AllenFebruary 21, 2025
Introduced by Senator Allen
February 21, 2025
An act to relating to housing.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 715, as introduced, Allen. Planning and zoning: regional housing need allocation.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for the land use and development of the county or city that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires each local government to review its housing element as frequently as appropriate to evaluate, among other things, the appropriateness of the housing goals, objectives, and policies in contributing to the attainment of the state housing goal.Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, for the fourth and subsequent revisions of a housing element, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region in accordance with specified requirements. Existing law requires the appropriate council of governments, or, for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department, to adopt a final regional housing need allocation plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county at least one year prior to the scheduled revision of a housing element, as specified.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure post-disaster recovery, local environmental conditions, and climate change impacts are appropriately considered during regional housing need allocations.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for the land use and development of the county or city that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires each local government to review its housing element as frequently as appropriate to evaluate, among other things, the appropriateness of the housing goals, objectives, and policies in contributing to the attainment of the state housing goal.
Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, for the fourth and subsequent revisions of a housing element, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region in accordance with specified requirements. Existing law requires the appropriate council of governments, or, for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department, to adopt a final regional housing need allocation plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county at least one year prior to the scheduled revision of a housing element, as specified.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure post-disaster recovery, local environmental conditions, and climate change impacts are appropriately considered during regional housing need allocations.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure post-disaster recovery, local environmental conditions, and climate change impacts are appropriately considered during regional housing need allocations.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure post-disaster recovery, local environmental conditions, and climate change impacts are appropriately considered during regional housing need allocations.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure post-disaster recovery, local environmental conditions, and climate change impacts are appropriately considered during regional housing need allocations.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure post-disaster recovery, local environmental conditions, and climate change impacts are appropriately considered during regional housing need allocations.
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