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AB 1505 (Bloom) Land Use. Zoning Regulations. Chapter 376, Statutes of 2017 This measure authorizes a city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance to require, as a condition of development of residential rental units, that the development include a certain percentage of residential rental units affordable to, and occupied by, moderate income, lower income, very low income, or extremely low income households or by persons and families of low or moderate income. AB 1515 (Daly) Planning and Zoning. Housing. Chapter 378, Statutes of 2017 This measure, among other things, establishes, for purposes of the HAA, a reasonable person standard for deeming consistency for a housing development project or emergency shelter. SB 35 (Wiener) Planning and Zoning. Affordable Housing. Streamlined Approval Process. Chapter 366, Statutes of 2017 This measure streamlines multifamily housing project approvals, in jurisdictions that fail to meet state allocated housing production numbers, by making the issuance of building permits ministerial, thus circumventing project specific environmental review, mitigation, and public input. SB 166 (Skinner) Residential Density and Affordability. Chapter 367, Statutes of 2017 This measure amends the No Net Loss Zoning law to require local governments to maintain adequate housing sites at all times throughout the planning period for all levels of income. This measure prohibits a city, county, or city and county from permitting or causing its inventory of sites identified in a housing element to be insufficient to meet its remaining unmet share of the regional housing need for lower and moderate-income households. SB 167 (Skinner) Housing Accountability Act. Chapter 368, 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. SB 540 (Roth) Workforce Housing Opportunity Zone. Chapter 369, Statutes of 2017 This measure streamlines the housing approval process by having jurisdictions identify Workforce Housing Opportunity Zones, which would focus on workforce and affordable 6