Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that requires a court to modify previous housing and zoning orders in California.

Highlights:

• Requires that the penalties set forth in its provisions only apply when the local agency’s acts or omissions, as described, are arbitrary, capricious, or entirely lacking in evidentiary support, contrary to established public policy, unlawful, or procedurally unfair (Sec. 1). 

• Requires a court to modify certain of its prior orders, including an order directing a city or county to substantially comply with provisions regulating general plans and to bring its zoning ordinance into consistency, to impose, among other things, the maximum penalty specified in these provisions, as provided (Sec. 1). 

• Requires these civil penalties, as specified, to be deposited into the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund for the sole purpose of supporting the development of affordable housing located in the affected jurisdiction (Sec. 1). 

• Requires that expenditure of any penalty money deposited into the fund under these provisions be subject to appropriation by the Legislature (Sec. 1). 

• Authorizes the court to require the Controller to intercept any available state and local funds and direct those funds to the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund to correct the jurisdiction’s failure to pay, as specified (Sec. 1). 

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with House amendments and pass a bill that requires a court to modify previous housing and zoning orders in California.

Highlights:

• Requires that the penalties set forth in its provisions only apply when the local agency’s acts or omissions, as described, are arbitrary, capricious, or entirely lacking in evidentiary support, contrary to established public policy, unlawful, or procedurally unfair (Sec. 1). 

• Requires a court to modify certain of its prior orders, including an order directing a city or county to substantially comply with provisions regulating general plans and to bring its zoning ordinance into consistency, to impose, among other things, the maximum penalty specified in these provisions, as provided (Sec. 1). 

• Requires these civil penalties, as specified, to be deposited into the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund for the sole purpose of supporting the development of affordable housing located in the affected jurisdiction (Sec. 1). 

• Requires that expenditure of any penalty money deposited into the fund under these provisions be subject to appropriation by the Legislature (Sec. 1). 

• Authorizes the court to require the Controller to intercept any available state and local funds and direct those funds to the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund to correct the jurisdiction’s failure to pay, as specified (Sec. 1). 

Full Bill Text