Alameda County Planning Directors
September 30, 2022
Jason Rhine, Assistant Legislative Director
Sam Caygill, East Bay Division
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2022 Legislative Session by the Numbers
Total bills introduced: 2,353
Signed by Governor: 1,273
Vetoed by Governor: 169
State Budget Overview
State budget total: $308 billion
State surplus: $97.5 billion
Budgetary reserves: $37.2 billion
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Housing and Land Use
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Transportation, Communication and Public Works
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Community Services
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Environmental Quality
Planning and zoning
SB 6 (Caballero) Middle Class Housing Act of 2022.
This measure would establish a housing development project as an allowable use within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, so long as the parcel is not adjacent to a parcel dedicated to industrial use.
Cal Cities Position: Veto
Governor Action: Signed
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Planning and zoning
AB 2011 (Wicks) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022.
This measure would require nearly all cities to ministerially approve, without condition or discretion, certain affordable and mixed-use housing developments in areas of a city where office, retail, or parking are principally allowed regardless of any inconsistency with a local government’s general plan, specific plan, zoning ordinance, or regulation.
Cal Cities Position: Veto
Governor Action: Signed
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Accessory dwelling units
SB 897 (Wieckowski) Accessory Dwelling Units.
This measure would make numerous changes to accessory dwelling unit (ADU) law, even though the law has been amended each of the last five years. Most notably, this measure would force cities to allow ADUs to be constructed with a height of twenty-five feet if it is attached to the primary dwelling.
Cal Cities Position: Veto
Governor Action: Signed
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Parking Requirements
AB 2097 (Friedman) Residential and Commercial Development. Parking Requirements.
This measure would prohibit a city from imposing or enforcing any minimum automobile parking requirement on a residential, commercial, or other development project if the project is located within one-half mile of public transit.
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Parking requirements
AB 2097 (Friedman) Residential and Commercial Development. Parking Requirements.
This measure would prohibit a city from imposing parking requirements on the following housing development projects:
Cal Cities Position: Veto
Governor Action: Signed
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AB 2053 (Lee) Social Housing.
This measure would create the California Housing Authority with a mission to produce and acquire social housing developments for the purpose of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets and to preserve affordable housing.
Cal Cities Position: Oppose Unless Amended
Status: Dead
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Planning and zoning
AB 2295 (Bloom) Local Education Agencies: Housing Development.
This measure would declare that notwithstanding any law, a housing development project shall be deemed an allowable use on any real property owned by a local educational agency if the housing development satisfies specific requirements.
Cal Cities Position: Support if Amended
Governor Action: Signed
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Coastal
SB 867 (Laird) Sea Level Rise: Planning and Adaptation
This measure would require a local government within the coastal zone to address sea level rise planning and adaptation through either a local coastal program or a San Francisco Bay shoreline coastal resiliency plan, by January 1, 2033.
Cal Cities Position: Neutral
Governor Action: Vetoed
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General plans
SB 932 (Portantino) Circulation Element.
Requires by Jan. 1, 2025 that cities when making substantive revisions to their circulation element, incorporate principles of the Federal Highway Administration’s Safe System Approach and to set goals to complete these projects within 25 years.
Cal Cities Position: Neutral
Governor Action: Signed
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Looking to Next Year – Political Dynamics
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