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7.B. - Page 31 �Chapier 633, Siatutes of 2007{SB 2)� (2} Any housing el�ment ar housirtg e�ement amendment prepared pursuant to subdivision {e) af Sectior� 65588 or Section 65584.02, �I�er�wher� the city, county, ar city and county fails to submit the first draf�ta the department before the due date specified in Section 65588 or 65584.02. Housing Accountabifity Act 65589.5. (a} The Legislature finds and dec[ares all of the faflowing: (�) The lack of housing, indudina emer�encv shelters, is a cri�icai pr�blem that threate�s the econamic, environmental, and social quality of life in California. {2) California housing has become the most expensi�e in the nation. Ti�e excessi�e cosf of the state's #�ousing suppiy is partially caused by activities and policies af many loca! governments that iimit the approval of housing, increase the cost of land for housing, an� require that high fees and exactions be paid by producers of housi�g. (3) Among the cansequer�ces of those actians are discrimination against law income and minority households, lack af housing ta support employment growth, imbalance in jobs and housing, reduced mobility, urban sprawl, excessive commuti�g, ar�d air quality deterioration. (4} Many local go�ernments do not gi�e adequa�e attention to the economic, en�ironmental, and sacial costs of decisions that resuEt in disapproval of housing prajects, reduction ir� density of housing projects, and excessi�e standards for hausing projects. {b) ft is the policy of the state that a lacaf go�ernment not reject or make ir�feasible housing develo�ments, includinq emerqencv shelters, that car�tribute to meeting the� need determined pursuant to this article without a thorough ana�ysis af the economic, social, and Environmental effects af�he action and without complying with subdi�ision (d}. (c) The Legislature also recognizes that premature and unnecessary de�elopment ofi agricultural lands for urban uses continues #o ha�e ad�erse effects on the availability of those lands for food and fiber production and on the econamy of the state. Furthermore, it is the palicy of the state �hat develapment should be guided away from prime agriculfural lands; therefore, in implementing this section, local jurisdictions should encourage, to the maximum extent pracficable, in filling existing urban areas. (d) A focal agency shal[ not disappro�e a housing devefapm�nt project, induding farmworker housing as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 50199.50 of the Health and Safety Code, for very low, low�, or moderate-incame households, or an emer enc shelter or candition appro�al in a manner that renders the project infeasibfe far development for the use of�ery low, fow-, ar moderate- incame hauseholds, or an emerqency shelt� including througt� the use of design re�iew standards, unless it makes written findings, based upon substantiai e�idence in the record, as to one of the fol[owing: (1} The j�arisdiction has adopted a housing element pursuant to this art�cl� that has been revised in accordance with Section 65588, is in substantial compliance with this article, ar�d the jurisdiction has met or exceeded its share af the regional housing need allocation pursuant to Sectior� 65584 for the planning periad far th� income category proposed for the housing development project, pravided that any disapprovai or canditional approval shall not be �ased an any of the reasans prohibited by 5ection 650D8. If the housir�g de�elopment project inc[udes a mix of income categories, and the jurisdiction has not met or exceeded its share of the regional housing need for one or more of thase categories, then this paragraph shall not be used to disapprove or conditianally approve the praj�ct. The share af the regional Sfate Department of Nousing -24- May 2008 and Community Development