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• Prohibits owner occupancy requirements. Based on this latter provision, it will be necessary to amend the City's ADU Ordinance to bring it into compliance with the various new laws and allow for it to continue to be implemented. Staff expects to bring the ADU ordinance revisions forward in early 2020, potentially as an urgency item. Housing Streamlining SB 330, also known as the Housing Crisis Act, is among the most significant pieces of new legislation signed into law. The bill, which sunsets after five years, makes a number of substantial changes to the Permit Streamlining Act and the Housing Accountability Act. Among other items, the bill does the following: • Creates a new "Preliminary Application" process for housing projects that also creates a "freeze" of applicable fees and development standards in place at the time of Preliminary Application submittal. This reflects a significantly earlier point than currently specified under the Permit Streamlining Act, which typically vests fees and development standards at time of project application "completeness." • Requires the City to develop and make available a Pre-Application checklist, including a list of specific submittal items prescribed by the state. • Limits the total number of public hearings on a project (that is consistent with the General Plan and zoning) to no more than five, with "hearing" broadly defined to include any workshop or meeting of a board, commission, council, department or subcommittee. The effect of this may be to require consolidation of commission meetings (e.g. holding joint versus sequential hearings where multiple commission recommendations are required), eliminating or combining non- mandatory CEQA public hearings; and prolonging public hearings rather than continuing an item. • Prohibits any general plan or zoning changes that would reduce or eliminate the ability to construct housing on a site, except under very limited circumstances. • Prohibits adoption or implementation of any housing moratorium, or enforcement of any growth control measure adopted since 2005. • Prohibits an agency from requiring a housing project to re-zone a property if it is consistent with the objective general plan standards (e.g. density) for the property. The agency may require the project to comply with any applicable zoning standards, but only to the extent they facilitate the development at the density allowed by the general plan. Staff has not conducted a detailed analysis of the potential effects of this regulation. However, it may be problematic insofar as it would reduce the City's ability to enforce zoning standards, including important limitations such as height limits and setbacks. AB 1483 (Grayson) was also signed into law. This bill requires additional information to be included in the City's Annual Housing Report to HCD; and requires the City to post and maintain current fee schedules, supporting studies (e.g. nexus studies) and Page 4 of 7