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7.B. - Page 24 �Chapfer fi33, Stafutes of 200T(SB 7)� The Housing Accountability Act To promate predictability for the deve�opment of housing affardable to lawer- and moderate- income househoEds, the Hausing Accountabifity Act �Ga�ernment Cocle Sectian 65589.5) prohibits a jurisdictio� from disappro�ing a hausing developmen� project, including hausing for farmworkers and for very faw-, low-, or moderate-income housel�olds, or conditioning appro�al in a manner that renders the project irtfeasible for de�elopment for the use ofi very law-, low�, or moderate-income households, including through the use of design re�iew standards, unless it makes at least one of five specific written findings based on substantia� evidence in the record (Government Code Section 65589.5). 5B 2 adds emergency shelters to the �ist af uses pratected under the Housing Accountability Ac#. In a�dition, SB 2 clarifies that the definition of a ho�asing de�eiopment project includes transitional or supportive housing {s�� Attachment 1: SB 2 - changes ar� underlined}. Zoning lnconsistency Pursuant to the Housing Accountability Act, a lacal go�ernment is prohibited from making the fnding regarding zon�ng and genera! plan inconsistency (SECtion 65589.5(d){5)) to disapprove a development if the jurisdiction identified the site in its general plan (e.g., hausing or land-use elemen�) as appro�riate for residentiaf use at ti�e density propased or fai[ed to id�ntify adequate sites tn accommodate its share of the regional housing need for al! �ncome groups. Ir� additian ta extending these pro�isions to emergency shefters and transitional housing, SB 2 prohibits the use af the zoning and genera� plan inconsistency finding to disapprove an emergency shelter if the jurisdicfians have: • not identifed a zone(s} where emergency shelters are allowec! as a permitted us� w�thaut a conditiona� use nr other discretionary permit, + not derr�anstrated the identi�ied zone(s} include sufficient capacity to accammodafe the neecf for emergency sheEter, or • not demanstrated fihe identified zone{s) can accommodate at least a�� emergency shelter. This pro�ision a�plies ta any site ider�tified in any element af the general plan for industrial, commercial, or multifamily residentiaf uses. In any court action, the burden of proof is on the lacal jurisdictian to demonstrate its housing efemenf satisfies the above requirements of SB 2. State Department af Housing - 97- May 2008 and Community Development