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Bill Title Description I City Position AB 1279 Planning and Would facilitate denser affordable housing Oppose (Bloom) zoning: development in "high resource areas" to be Housing designated by HCD. The bill identifies high- development: resource areas with strong indicators of high-resource exclusionary patterns (both racial and economic) areas. and subjects these areas to approval streamlining to encourage the production of both small-scale market-rate housing projects and larger scale mixed-income affordable projects. Developers would also be required to pay a fee for any units priced above that considered affordable to households earning 100 % of Area Median Income (AMI), with fees to be deposited into a separate fund to support housing preservation/production of housing affordable to household earning less than 50% AMI. AB 1568 Housing law Would limit local jurisdictions' abilities to apply for Oppose (McCarty) compliance: certain state grant funding if housing element prohibition on found to be not in compliance with state law. applying for (Note, prior provisions that would allow the state to state grants. withhold SB1 transportation funds have been eliminated from the current draft bill) AB 1706 Housing Would, until January 1, 2035, provide specified Oppose (Quirk) development: financial incentives that ensure financial feasibility incentives. for a residential housing development in the 9-county Bay Area that dedicates at least 20% of the development's housing units to households making no more than 150% of the area median income. The incentives provided to those developments include an exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act, a density bonus of 35%, a waiver of local parking requirements, and a waiver of physical building requirements imposed on development by the local agency, such as green building standards. Page 5 of 10