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Legislative Bill Action Balance Incentive program receive an additional amount that local governments will continue to retain control of for each bedroom that qualifies under this section, their public rights-of-way for the placement of temporary Requires grants be used for the construction or real estate signs, the League removed its opposition to this acquisition of capitol assets, bill, AB 2247 grandfathers all existing ordinances, and Requires HCD to provide grants to local governments preserves local ability to ban signs. Statutory guidance is that issue building permits for housing developments provided for local ordinances adopted after January 1, that contain units affordable to Iow- or very-low 2003. To maintain maximum local flexibility; however, any income households provided all of the following city that does not have an ordinance regulating the place- conditions are met: merit of temporary signs in the public right-of-way is a) Final approval was granted on or after January 1, encouraged to review the bill and consider adopting an 2004; ordinance prior to January 1, 2003, because any ordinances b) Rental units remain affordable for at least 55 years; adopted prior to that date are completely exempted from c) Ownership units must be sold to Iow or very Iow- the bill's statutory guidance. Staff: Dan Carrigg, Status: income households. Requires that if public funds SenFIr, Position: Neutral. were used to achieve affordability and a unit is later sold to a non-low-income household, the ENVIRONMENTAL public entity shall be repaid and those funds must be reused for affordable housing for at least 20 AB 117 (Migden). Community Aggregation. Opt- years. Out Procedure. AB 117 makes it easier for cities and d) The city or county has a housing element found to counties to establish a community aggregation program, be valid by HCD. passed the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Requires grant amounts to be made based on the Committee this week, AB 117 is a reintroduction of AB 9XX number of bedrooms for each tow- or very-low income of last year, which was vetoed by the Governor due to unit, Sets aside $65 million out of the $100 million Jobs- concerns about cost reimbursement by departing customers Housing Balance improvement Ac~ {:Jnt funded by the for DWR energy bond obligations. While the author has 2002 Housing Bond for this program, been working with the Administration to incorporate Provides that the grant for very-low income units be appropriate cost recovery language into the bill, at this time greater than Iow-income units, it still remains unclear whether the limited reauthorization Requires that if applications exceed available funding, of direct access transactions for community aggregation will that HCD proportionally reduce grants, be acceptable to the Administration. The League thanks Requires HCD to adopt guidelines for the operation of Assembly Member Migden and her staff for their extraordi- the program, nary work on this subject. Staff: Yvonne Hunter, Status: SenApps, Position: Support. This is a package of incentives for local government to be funded from the housing bond, if it is approved by the AB 2351 (Canciamilla). Water Quality. Mandatory voters. Local governments which are eligible for an award Minimum Penalties. AB 2351, co-sponsored by the League under the existing Jobs/Housing Balance Program, which and the California Association of Sanitation Agencies (CASA), offered financial awards for housing production during passed the Senate Environmental Quality Committee this calendar year 2001, should review this legislation. Staff: week on a vote of 7-0. After the author accepted several Dan Carrigg, Status: AsApps, Position: Review and clarifying amendments suggested by the Committee analysis Comment. and acceptable to the League and CASA, most of the environmental groups removed their opposition. AB 2351 AB 2247. (Salinas}. Real Estate Signs. Public Right- provides a procedure that would relieve waste water system of-Way. I:ollowing significant amendments agreed to by operators of the burden faced by mandatory minimum the author in the Senate Judiciary Committee, which ensures penalties for problems occurring during operational start- up, as well as upsets in the system due to unavoidable PAGE 12/PRIORITY FOCUS Visit the League's Official Web Site--www.cacities.org