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<br />DRAFT 2025 Legislative Positions <br /> <br />3 | P a g e <br />Updated 4.21.2025 <br />4 AB 712 (Wicks) <br /> <br />Housing reform <br />laws: enforcement <br />actions: fines and <br />penalties <br />This bill, where the applicant for a housing development is a <br />prevailing party in an action brought by the applicant to <br />enforce a housing reform law against a public agency, would <br />entitle an applicant for a housing development project to <br />reasonable attorney’s fees and costs and would require a <br />court to impose fines on a local agency. The bill would prohibit <br />a public agency from requiring the applicant to indemnify, <br />defend, or hold harmless the public agency in any action <br />alleging the public agency violated the applicant’s rights or <br />deprived the applicant of the benefits or protection provide by <br />a housing reform law. <br />Oppose None/Oppose <br />Unless Amended <br /> <br />CalCities is <br />requesting <br />amendments to <br />require specific list <br />of violations that <br />would qualify for <br />fines, opportunity <br />for court <br />supervised <br />correction, and <br />clarification on <br />indemnification <br />provisions <br />5 SB 79 (Wiener) <br /> <br />Housing <br />development: <br />transit-oriented <br />development <br />This bill authorizes a residential development within a ¼ or ½ <br />distance of transit stops in a residential, mixed -use, <br />commercial, and light industrial zone, to be developed with <br />maximum height, minimum density and FAR, and additional <br />development benefits, based on the type of transit service <br />provided. The bill also expands the definition of “agency’s use” <br />under the Surplus Lands Act (SLA) to include any land leased <br />to support public transit operations, thus exempting these <br />sites from the provisions of the SLA, and exempts specified <br />residential and commercial developments on those sites from <br />the California Environmental Quality Act. <br /> <br />Oppose None/Oppose <br />6 SB 233 (Seyarto) <br /> <br />Regional housing <br />need: consultation <br />with regional <br />Current law requires, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of <br />the housing element, the Department of Housing and <br />Community Development, in consultation with each council of <br />governments, where applicable, to determine the existing and <br />projected need for housing for each region, as prescribed. <br />Current law requires, among o ther things, the department to <br />Support None/None <br />Page 31 of 682