(1)Existing law Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution creating an affordable housing authority. Existing law authorizes this authority to, among other things, provide for low- and moderate-income housing and affordable workforce housing, as provided.
This bill would additionally authorize an affordable housing authority to finance water, sewer, or other public infrastructure necessary to support the development of
affordable housing.
(2)Existing law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development, which satisfies specified objective planning standards, that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit. Existing law requires, among other objective planning standards, that the development proponent certify both (A) that the development is either a public work, for purposes of specified law, or that all construction workers employed in the execution of the development will be paid at least the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for the type of work and geographic area and (B) that, if the development meets certain conditions, a skilled and trained workforce, as defined, will be used to complete the development if the application is approved, as provided. Existing law exempts from any requirement to pay prevailing wages or use a
skilled and trained workforce a project that includes 10 or fewer units and is not a public work.This bill would additionally exempt a project from these requirements if the project includes exclusively affordable for sale or rental units at specified income levels or the project is sponsored by a nonprofit corporation, as specified, a cooperative housing corporation which is a stock cooperative, or a limited-dividend housing corporation.(3)The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds
that the project will not have that effect. CEQA does not apply to the ministerial approval of projects.This bill, by expanding the scope of developments eligible for streamlined, ministerial approval, as described above, would expand the exemption for the ministerial approval of projects under CEQA. (4)This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 62254 of the Government Code proposed by AB 2035 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2035 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. 
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