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2002 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES from page 2...... ·..,, ·.............. become effective with the 2004 STIP cycle and AB 2863 (Longville). Housing Element continue through December 31, 2010. Position: Reform. The League supports comprehensive Seeking Amendments. housing element reform, in accordance with the principles contained in AB 2863 (Longville). AB 2275 (Aanestad). Transportation. The brief, those principles are: (1) address issues California Transportation Commission is required toinvolving the development of regional housing program interregional and regional transportation need projections; (2) resolve issues and problerr capital improvement projects through the State associated with the distribution of regional hous Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). lng needs within a council of governments; (3) Regional transportation planning agencies and clarify and improve the housing element review county transportation commissions are required to process; (4) develop a neutral dispute resolution adopt and submit a 5-year regional transportation process and fair enforcement alternatives to deal improvement program to the commission and the with disputes over questions of compliance; (5) Department of Transportation for consideration to develop fiscal tools and incentives to assist local be included in the STIP. This bill authorizes the governments in their efforts to encourage housin regional transportation improvement program to and finance the infrastructure to support housin! include projects for the rehabilitation of local as well as establish an ongoing state commitme~ streets and roads in counties meeting certain to funding affordable housing; (6) require state conditions. Those conditions are: 1) any county laws and policies that affect housing and land us that has a population of less than 50,000; 2) any to be internally consistent; and (7) establish county that has no project study reports for state additional legal protections to local agencies tha highway projects available in order to allow approve affordable housing and that establish programming of state highway projects at the local pro-active affordable housing policies. time the regional transportation improvement Position: Support. program is due to be adopted; and 3) any county, regardless of its population, but only with respect AB 1227 (Burton); AB 1927 (Kehoe). to that amount of revenue that is projected in the Housing and Infrastructure Bonds. The Leagu, fund estimate adopted by the California Transpor- supports legislation that seeks to provide addi- ration Commission and which is to be added to tional tools to local governments to address the county share from the sales tax on gasoline housing and infrastructure needs, such as AB made available by the recently adopted Proposi- 1227; AB 1927, that proposes a $6 billion bond tion 42. Position: Seeking Amendments. for grants to upgrade local infrastructure; and a yet-to-be-identified vehicle for the $12 billion Housing and Land Use school bond proposal. SB 910, SB 262 (Dunn). Housing Element Environmental Legislation Penalties. The League will oppose any efforts to resurrect SB 910 (Dunn) or SB 262 (Dunn), as AB 2351 (Canciamilla). Water Quality. currently drafted, which propose to shift local Minimum Mandatory Penalties. Co-sponsored land use authority over housing elements to the the League and the California Association of state, and seize local gas taxes or vehicle license Sanitation Agencies (CASA), this bill would make fee revenues as a method of enforcing a state plan changes to existing law that requires regional reviewer's opinion of a local housing element, water quality control boards to impose mandato~ Position: Oppose, penalties for violations of waste discharge per- mits. Position: Support. Visit the League's Official Web Site--www. cacities.org PRIORITY FOCUS/PAGE