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Bill Title Description City Position SB 330 Housing Adds new provisions to the existing Housing Oppose (Skinner) Crisis Act of Accountability Act to: unless 2019. • Specify that submittal of a preliminary amended application is sufficient to determine "completeness" for the purpose of establishing applicable objective development standards and fees. • Prohibit a local agency from holding more than five hearings on a project that meets objective development standards. • Amend the Permit Streamlining Act to reduce timeframes for approval/disapproval of a housing project. • "Freeze" impact fees to those in place at time of application completeness. The bill would also impose certain other requirements applicable to '`affected cities," defined as a city in which both a) the average rental rate differs from 130 percent of the national median rental rate in 2017, and b) the residential rental vacancy rate differs from the national vacancy rate in 2017, according to the American Community Survey. HCD would be required to identify affected cities by June 30, 2020. In affected cities, a locality would be generally prohibited from: • Downzoning or otherwise restricting the development intensity of any parcel where housing is an allowable use, below that allowed under standards in place as of January 1, 2018. • Adopting moratoriums on housing development, • Imposing new design standards that are costlier than those currently in effect, • Imposing any cap on housing units or permits for housing. AB 1244 Environmental Limits ability of a court to block construction of a Oppose (Fong) quality: housing project for which an EIR has been unless judicial certified, unless certain findings are met. amended review: housing projects. Page 4 of 10