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• Clarifies that the total area of floorspace shall not exceed 50 percent of the proposed or existing primary dwelling living area or 1,200 square feet; • An ADU shall not be considered by a local agency, special district, or water corporation to be a new residential use for purposes of calculating connection fees or capacity charges for utilities, including water and sewer service; • Defines "tandem parking" means two or more automobiles are parked on a driveway or in any other location on a lot, lined up one behind the other; • Clarifies that an ADU may be rented separate from the primary residence, but shall not be sold or otherwise conveyed separately from the primary residence; and • Permits HCD to review and comment on the ordinances. Land Use/Planning (2017) AB 678 (Bocanegra) Housing Accountability Act. Chapter 373, Statutes of 2017 This measure makes numerous changes to the Housing Accountability Act (HAA). This measure: • Changes the evidentiary standard for a local agency to disapprove a housing development project from "substantial" evidence in the record to a "preponderance of the" evidence in the record; and • Requires, if the court determines that the local agency has failed to comply with the order or judgment compelling compliance within 60 days, the court to impose fines of $10,000 per unit on a local agency that has violated the HAA. AB 879 (Grayson) Planning and Zoning. Housing Element. Chapter 374, Statutes of 2017 This measure makes numerous changes to housing element law and requires HCD to conduct a study to determine the reasonableness of local fees charged to new developments. This measure requires the study to include findings and recommendations regarding potential amendments to the Mitigation Fee Act to substantially reduce fees for new residential development. AB 1086 (Daly) Housing. Regional Housing Needs. Chapter 206, Statutes of 2017 This measure makes numerous changes to the process to determine the population projections for the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) allocation. AB 1397 (Low) Local Planning. Housing Element. Inventory of Land for Residential Development. Chapter 375, Statutes of 2017 This measure, among other things, revises the inventory of land suitable for residential development identified in a city's housing element to include vacant sites and sites that have "realistic and demonstrated potential" for redevelopment to meet a portion of the locality's housing need for a designated income level. 5