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sion. Staff: Daniel Carrigg, Status: GovDesk, Therefore, existing law potentially creates a loop- Position: REQUEST FOR SIGNATURE. hole for an owner of a tax credit development that sells the project prior to the expiration of SB 372 (Dunn). Preservation Interim Loan affordability restrictions. Staff: Daniel Carfigg, Programs. SB 372 creates preservation interim Status: GovDesk, Position: REQUEST FOR loan programs to be administered by the Depart- SIGNATURE. ment of Housing and Community Development (HCD) for the purpose of preserving existing iow- income rental housing. If approved by the voters in ADMINISTRATIVE November, Proposition 46, the Housing Bond sets aside $50 million to be used for the purposes of AB 363 (Steinberg). Public Agency Attor- Iow-income and moderate-income housing "pres- neys. Attorney. Client Confidentiality. AB 363 ervation." In this context preservation means the would permit public agency attorneys to disclose continuation of affordable rents. SB 372 will help confidential attorney-client information without to stem the conversion of existing affordable State Bar sanctions under certain circumstances if housing units to market rate units by ensuring that they follow the procedures established in the bill. available funding is in place to purchase and preserve these units when their owners desire to Staff: Yvonne Hunter, Status: GovDesk, Position: sell these properties. Staff: Daniel Carrigg, REQUEST FOR SIGNATURE Status: GovDesk, Position: REQUEST FOR SIGNATURE. SB 688 (Burton). Tort Un-Reform. Sum- ' mary Judgment. SB 688 would make changes to SB 1821 (Dunn). Assisted Housing. B existing procedures for obtaining summary judg- 1821 states that an apartment owner must notify ment rulings, thus making it harder for cities (and others) to have frivolous and meritless lawsuits tenants and specified groups of the expiration of dismissed. It would also extend the statute of rental restrictions, and requires the notification to limitations from one to two years for filing a per- include a statement on whether the owner will increase rents upon the expiration of the rental sonal injury lawsuit. Staff: Yvonne Hunter, Status: restrictions. The also clarifies that the existing GovDesk, Position: REQUEST FOR VETO. right of first refusal for specified individuals and AB 468 (Firebaugh). State Property. Ac- organizations applies to expidng tax credit devel- cass. Telecommunications. AB 468 attempts to opments in addition to owners that either terminate subsidy contracts or prepay assisted mortgages, allow local agencies to preempt their local zoning ordinance processes if the plans for the facility fall within the confines of a three-part test. The facility: In order to help minimize the impact of tenant displacement and to give local governments an 1) will be attached to an existing state building or opportunity to preserve the affordability of the units, structure; 2) does not exceed the height or signifi- current state law requires an owner to give ten- cantly increase the mass of the existing building or ants, the State Department of Housing and Com- structure; and 3) incorporates reasonable design munity Development and the local government standards and stealth technology to reduce the advance notice of any termination of affordability visibility of the facility. Local agencies must ap- restrictions. SB 1821 clarifies the required 12- prove the application without local zoning review within 60 days, or the plans for the facilities are month notification by a tax credit development owner. The owner of such a project does not automatically approved. If local agencies decide actively terminate a contract but instead is provid- that the application should go through local zoning lng affordable units for an established time frame, review, and the state disagrees, local agencies do not have any leverage to enforce their zoning PAGE 12/PRIORITY FOCUS Visit the League's Official Web Site--www.cacities.org