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PLEASANTON, DRAFT 2023 Legislative Positions Bill # and Title Description Recommended TVC City Position Position/League Position Development. Current law requires the committee to allocate state low-income housing tax credits in conformity with state and federal law that establishes a maximum rent that may be charged to a tenant for a project unit constructed using low-income housing tax credits. This bill would require that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an applicant who submits an application for streamlined approval, on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024, if the development satisfies specified criteria, including that the development is not adjoined to any site where more than one-third of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. 13 SB 225 Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Support None/Watch (Caballero) Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and makes the department responsible for administering Community Anti- various housing programs throughout the state, including, among Displacement and others, the Multifamily Housing Program and the California Preservation Emergency Solutions Grants Program. Current law, upon appropriation, authorizes the department to make either or both Program: statewide loans and grants to rehabilitate, capitalize operating subsidy contract. reserves for, and extend the long-term affordability of department- funded housing projects that have an affordability restriction that has expired, that have an affordability restriction with a remaining term of less than 10 years, or are otherwise at risk for conversion, as provided. This bill would establish the Community Anti- Displacement and Preservation Program for purposes of funding the acquisition and rehabilitation of unrestricted housing units and attaching long-term affordability restrictions on the housing units, while safeguarding against the displacement of current residents. 14 SB 294 The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a Oppose unless None/Watch general plan for land use development within its boundaries that amended 7 1 P a g e Updated 4.10.23