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-3— Ch. 720 <br />(o) Community redevelopment law (Part 1 (commencing with Section <br />33000) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code, and in particular <br />Sections 33334.2 and 33413). <br />SEC. 2. Section 65583.1 of the Government Code is amended to read: <br />65583.1. (a) The Department of Housing and Community Development, <br />in evaluating a proposed or adopted housing element for substantial <br />compliance with this article, may allow a city or county to identify adequate <br />sites, as required pursuant to Section 65583, by a variety of methods, <br />including, but not limited to, redesignation of property to a more intense <br />land use category and increasing the density allowed within one or more <br />categories. The department may also allow a city or county to identify sites <br />for accessory dwelling units based on the number of accessory dwelling <br />units developed in the prior housing element planning period whether or <br />not the units are permitted by right, the need for these units in the <br />community, the resources or incentives available for their development, and <br />any other relevant factors, as determined by the department. Nothing in this <br />section reduces the responsibility of a city or county to identify, by income <br />category, the total number of sites for residential development as required <br />by this article. <br />(b) Sites that contain permanent housing units located on a military base <br />undergoing closure or conversion as a result of action pursuant to the Defense <br />Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act (Public <br />Law 100-526), the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 <br />(Public Law 101-510), or any subsequent act requiring the closure or <br />conversion of a military base may be identified as an adequate site if the <br />housing element demonstrates that the housing units will be available for <br />occupancy by households within the planning period of the element. No <br />sites containing housing units scheduled or planned for demolition or <br />conversion to nonresidential uses shall qualify as an adequate site. <br />Any city, city and county, or county using this subdivision shall address <br />the progress in meeting this section in the reports provided pursuant to <br />paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 65400. <br />(c) (1) The Department of Housing and Community Development may <br />allow a city or county to substitute the provision of units for up to 25 percent <br />of the community's obligation to identify adequate sites for any income <br />category in its housing element pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) <br />of Section 65583 where the community includes in its housing element a <br />program committing the local government to provide units in that income <br />category within the city or county that will be made available through the <br />provision of committed assistance during the planning period covered by <br />the element to low- and very low income households at affordable housing <br />costs or affordable rents, as defined in Sections 50052.5 and 50053 of the <br />Health and Safety Code, and which meet the requirements of paragraph (2). <br />Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, the community may <br />substitute one dwelling unit for one dwelling unit site in the applicable <br />income category. The program shall do all of the following: <br />90 <br />