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IH[ CIIY OF 1 PLEASANTON, DRAFT 2023 Legislative Positions Bill #and Title Description Recommended TVC City Position Position/League Position (Wiener) includes, among other things, a housing element. Current law prohibits a local agency, as defined, from imposing a floor area ratio Housing standard that is less than 1.0 on a housing development project that development consists of 3 to 7 units, or less than 1.25 on a housing development project that consists of 8 to 10 units. Current law prohibits a local projects: floor area agency from imposing a lot coverage requirement that would ratios. physically preclude a housing development project of not more than 10 units from achieving the floor area ratios described above. This bill would delete the 10-unit maximum for eligible projects and would prohibit a local agency from imposing a floor area ratio standard that is less than 2.5 on a housing development project that consists of 11 to 20 units. The bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing a floor area ratio standard that is less than 1.25 for every ten housing units, rounded to the nearest ten units, on a housing development project that consists of more than 20 units. 15 SB 393 The California Environmental Quality Act requires a lead agency, as Support None/Watch (Glazer) defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it California proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect Environmental on the environment, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that Quality Act: judicial the project will not have that effect. This bill would require a plaintiff or petitioner, in an action brought pursuant to the act, to disclose challenge: the identity of a person or entity that contributes in excess of identification of $1,000, as specified, toward the plaintiffs or petitioner's costs of the contributors: action. The bill also would require the plaintiff or petitioner to housing projects. identify any pecuniary or business interest related to the project of any person or entity that contributes in excess of$1,000 to the costs of the action, as specified. The bill would provide that a failure to comply with these requirements may be grounds for dismissal of the action by the court. 16 SB 405 Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Oppose Pending/Watch Development to determine the existing and projected need for 8 � 1' age Updated 4.10.23