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                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Haney</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title> An act relating to land use. </ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Land use. </ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires that the housing element consist of an identification and analysis of existing and projected housing needs and a statement of goals, policies, quantified objectives, financial resources, and scheduled programs for the preservation, improvement, and development of housing, as specified.</html:p>
                        <html:p>Existing law requires that a housing development project within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development stop be an allowed use as a transit-oriented housing development on any site zoned for residential, mixed, or commercial development, if the
                development complies with applicable requirements, as specified.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to support transit-oriented housing development, high road labor standards, and downtown revitalization in major transit cities, as defined, establish land use standards appropriate to transit-oriented development in regional centers, streamline ministerial approval for developments that meet high road labor standards in regional centers, and establish a revolving loan fund to finance construction of qualifying developments in regional centers.</html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                                <html:p> It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would do all of the following: </html:p>
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                                        (a)
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                                        Define a “major transit city” as a city with a population greater than 400,000 and multiple transit-oriented development stops, as specified in Section 65912.156 of the Government Code.
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                                        (b)
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                                        Support transit-oriented housing development, high road labor standards, and downtown revitalization in major transit cities.
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                                        Establish land use standards appropriate for transit-oriented development in regional centers, and ensure that all major transit cities have areas designated to allow those land use standards.
                  
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                                        Streamline ministerial approval for developments that meet high road labor standards in regional centers.
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                                        Establish a revolving loan fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to help finance the construction of qualifying developments in regional centers.
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