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.

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.

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.