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General plan housing element: regional housing need.

It became law on Sep 30, 2014.

CA AB 1537 · Assembly Bill · 2013–2014

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Latest action
Sep 30, 2014

What it does

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each city, county, or city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. That law requires the housing element to, among other things, include an inventory of land suitable for residential development and make adequate provision for the existing and projected needs of all economic segments of the community. That law prescribes the densities appropriate to accommodate housing for lower income households and varies those densities depending upon how an area is classified, whether as metropolitan, suburban, or in another category. A city, county, or city and county…

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Where it stands

This bill passed and is now law.

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Done)

  4. Law (Done)

    Sep 30, 2014

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Who is involved

Sponsors

The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.

Where it goes next

Once a bill is decided, the questions are about what is done with it in California.

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