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<br />DRAFT 2024 Legislative Positions <br /> <br />5 | P a g e <br />Updated 4.17.2024 <br /> Bill # and Title Description Recommended <br />City Position <br />TVC <br />Position/League <br />Position <br />written finding that the proposed housing development project <br />would have a specific, adverse impact upon the physical <br />environment. <br />• Would require the local agency to consider and approve or <br />deny the proposed housing development application within 60 <br />days from the date the local agency receives the completed <br />application, and would deem the application approved after <br />that time. <br />• Would require a permitting agency, if it denies an application, <br />to provide a full set of comments to the applicant with a list of <br />items that are defective or deficient and a description of how <br />the application can be remedied by the applicant. <br /> <br />8. SB 968 (Seyarto) <br /> <br />Planning and zoning: <br />regional housing <br />needs allocation <br />This bill would permit the council of governments or delegate <br />subregion, in developing the methodology, to consider prior <br />overproduction of housing units in a city or county from the <br />previous regional housing need allocation in a particular income <br />category and to count it as credit toward the future regional housing <br />need allocation of that same income category in the next cycle. The <br />bill would provide that the amount eligible to count as credit toward <br />the next cycle is determined by each jurisdiction’s most recent <br />annual progress report, as specified. <br />Support <br /> <br />(allows <br />“overproduction” of <br />units in prior RHNA <br />to count towards <br />next cycle) <br />None/Support <br />9. SB 1210 (Skinner) <br /> <br />New housing <br />construction: <br />electrical, gas, sewer, <br />and water service <br />connections: charges. <br />This bill would, for new housing construction, prohibit a connection, <br />capacity, or other point of connection charge from a public utility, as <br />defined, or a special district, as defined, for electrical, gas, sewer, <br />or water service from exceeding 1% of the reported building permit <br />value of that housing unit. The bill would require a public utility or <br />special district to issue an above-described charge over a period of <br />at least 10 years commencing on the date when the housing unit is <br />first occupied, as specified. The bill would require a public utility to <br />publicly report on its internet website the amount of any charge <br />issued each year pursuant the above-described provision by the <br />housing unit’s address. The bill would also require a public utility to <br />prioritize the processing, approval, scheduling, and completion of <br />Oppose unless <br />amended <br /> <br />(Limits total amount <br />of utilities <br />connection charges, <br />and requires <br />payment of charges <br />to be paid over a 10- <br />year period.) <br />None/Pending <br />Page 74 of 448