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AB 14
| AB 14 (Aguiar-Curry D) Communications: broadband services: California Advanced Services Fund. | ||
| Current law establishes the State Department of Education in state government, and vests the department with specified powers and duties relating to the state’s public school system. This bill would authorize local educational agencies to report to the department their pupils’ estimated needs for computing devices and internet connectivity adequate for at-home learning. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission, to compile that information and to annually post that compiled information on the department’s internet website. |
| AB 17 (Cooper D) Peace officers: disqualification from employment. | ||
| Would disqualify a person from being a peace officer if the person has been discharged from the military for committing an offense that would have been a felony if committed in California or if the person has been certified as a peace officer and has had that certification revoked by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. |
| AB 34 (Muratsuchi D) Broadband for All Act of 2022. |
| Would enact the Broadband for All Act of 2022, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to support the 2022 Broadband for All Program that would be administered by the department for purposes of providing financial assistance for projects to deploy broadband infrastructure and broadband internet access services. |
| AB 215 (Chiu D) Housing element: regional housing need: relative progress determination. |
| the Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. That law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law. This bill, starting with the 6th housing element revision, would require the department to determine the relative progress toward meeting regional housing needs of each jurisdiction and council of governments, as specified. The bill would require the department to make this determination based on the information contained in the annual reports submitted by each jurisdiction, as specified. The bill would require the department to make this determination for all housing and for lower-income housing by dividing the applicable entity’s progress toward meeting its share of the regional housing need by its prorated share of the regional housing need, as specified. |
| AB 377 (Rivas, Robert D) Water quality: impaired waters. |
| Would require, by January 1, 2023, the State Water Resources Control Board and regional boards to prioritize enforcement of all water quality standard violations that are causing or contributing to an exceedance of a water quality standard in surface water of the state. The bill would require the state board and regional boards, by January 1, 2025, to evaluate impaired state surface waters and report to the Legislature a plan to bring all water segments into attainment by January 1, 2050. The bill would require the state board and regional boards to update the report with a progress summary to the Legislature every 5 years. The bill would create the Waterway Recovery Account in the Waste Discharge Permit Fund and would make money in the Waterway Recovery Account available for the state board to expend, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to bring impaired water segments into attainment in accordance with the plan. |
| AB 500 (Ward D) Local planning: coastal development: affordable housing. | ||
| Would require the California Coastal Commission to conduct and complete a study on or before January 1, 2023, that identifies recommendations for policy changes that advance affordable housing in the coastal zone. The bill would provide that the study may include recommendations regarding the commission’s authority related to the development of lower-income housing and recommendations regarding streamlining of local government and commission review of affordable housing projects. | ||
| AB 585 (Rivas, Luz D) Climate change: Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program. | ||
| Would establish the Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program for the purpose of coordinating state efforts and supporting local and regional efforts to mitigate the impacts of, and reduce the public health risks of, extreme heat and the urban heat island effect, and would require the Office of Planning and Research to administer the program through the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program. |
| AB 718 (Cunningham R) Peace officers: investigations of misconduct. | ||
| Would require a law enforcement agency or oversight agency to complete its investigation into an allegation of the use of force resulting in death or great bodily injury, sexual assault, discharge of a firearm, or dishonesty relating to the reporting, investigation, or prosecution of a crime or misconduct by another peace officer or custodial officer, despite the peace officer’s or custodial officer’s voluntary separation from the employing agency. The bill would require the investigation to result in a finding that the allegation is either sustained, not sustained, unfounded or exonerated, as defined. The bill would also require an agency other than an officer’s employing agency that conducts an investigation of these allegations to disclose its findings with the employing agency no later than the conclusion of the investigation. |
| AB 816 (Chiu D) Homelessness: Housing Trust Fund: housing projects. | ||
| Current federal law requires the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to establish a Housing Trust Fund to provide grants to states to increase the supply of rental housing for extremely low and very low-income families, including homeless families, and homeownership for extremely low and very low-income families. Current law requires the department to collaborate with the California Housing Finance Agency to develop an allocation plan to demonstrate how the funds will be distributed, based on the priority housing needs identified in the state’s consolidated plan, and to convene a stakeholder process to inform the development of the plan. Current law requires the allocation plan and program guidelines to prioritize projects based on enumerated factors such as the extent to which project rents are affordable. The department is required to submit this plan to the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development and the Senate Transportation and Housing Committees 30 days after receipt of the federal funds. This bill would require the department to prioritize funding for projects that serve people experiencing homelessness, to the extent that a sufficient number of projects exist. |
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| SB 28 (Caballero D) Rural Broadband and Digital Infrastructure Video Competition Reform Act of 2021. | ||
| Current law establishes in state government the Department of Technology and makes it responsible for approval and oversight of information technology projects. Current law requires the Director of General Services to compile and maintain an inventory of state-owned real property that may be available for lease to providers of wireless telecommunications services for location of wireless telecommunications facilities. This bill, the Rural Broadband and Digital Infrastructure Video Competition Reform Act of 2021, would similarly require the Department of Technology, in collaboration with other state agencies, to compile an inventory of state-owned resources, as defined, that may be available for use in the deployment of broadband networks in rural, unserved, and underserved communities, except as specified. The bill would require the department to collaborate on the development of standardized agreement provisions to enable those state-owned resources to be leased or licensed for that purpose. |
| SB 278 (Leyva D) Public Employees’ Retirement System: disallowed compensation: benefit adjustments. | ||
| The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) generally requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its plan or plans to comply with the act. PEPRA, among other things, establishes new defined benefit formulas and caps on pensionable compensation. This bill would establish new procedures under PERL for cases in which PERS determines that the benefits of a member or annuitant are, or would be, based on disallowed compensation that conflicts with PEPRA and other specified laws and thus impermissible under PERL. The bill would also apply these procedures retroactively to determinations made on or after January 1, 2017, if an appeal has been filed and the employee member, survivor, or beneficiary has not exhausted their administrative or legal remedies. At the threshold, after determining that compensation for an employee member reported by the state, school employer, or a contracting agency is disallowed, the bill would require the applicable employer to discontinue the reporting of the disallowed compensation. |
| SB 344 (Hertzberg D) Homeless shelters grants: pets and veterinary services. | ||
| Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, to develop and administer a program to award grants to qualified homeless shelters, as described, for the provision of shelter, food, and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people experiencing homelessness. The bill would authorize the department to use up to 5% of the funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for those purposes for its costs in administering the program. |
| SB 556 (Dodd D) Street light poles, traffic signal poles: small wireless facilities attachments. | ||
| Would prohibit a local government or local publicly owned electric utility from unreasonably denying the leasing or licensing of its street light poles or traffic signal poles to communications service providers for the purpose of placing small wireless facilities on those poles. The bill would require that street light poles and traffic signal poles be made available for the placement of small wireless facilities under fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory fees, as provided. The bill would authorize a local government or local publicly owned electric utility to condition access to its street light poles or traffic signal poles on reasonable terms and conditions, including reasonable aesthetic and safety standards. |
Will Protect Chino Block this as well?
Will the leadership of the city council and the mayor support this?
Will the city meet its RHNA numbers or be sued by the State of California?
The city of Chino is grappling with a vital document that sometimes causes frustration within city governments—the housing element.
The housing element, part of every city’s general plan, was presented to the Chino city council at the July 20 meeting.
The council has been holding public workshops on the plan since March.
The housing element is a snapshot of demographic and housing data that is required to be renewed every eight years through the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).
A crucial part of the element is the Real Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), an allotment of housing units separated into the following income levels: very low, low, moderate and above moderate.
Chino must find space for just under 7,000 units—more than 3,300 of the low or very low income.
The city plans to distribute those units across vacant, underused, and city-owned parcels of land to show the state it has the room for potential future developers to build the units within an eight-year time frame.
Overlays
Two overlay zones will be established, a mixed-use overlay zone and an affordable housing overlay zone, to distribute the units on top of a scattering of existing zones across town.
But Chino has one hurdle to overcome – Measure M.
Under Measure M, the city council cannot increase the allowable residential density of any land in the city without the approval of the voters, according to director of development services Nick Liguori.
To successfully implement the two higher density zone overlays, the city needs to place the proposal on the ballot.
“Per the requirements of Measure M, they would need to be approved by the voters,” Mr. Liguori said.
Measure M has been triggered roughly 15 times since its passage in 1988.
All the measures passed except for one—Measure H in 2017, which would have changed the zone on land north of Philadelphia Street and along Benson Avenue to make way for 180-unit housing development.
Growth control measures like Measure M are not unique to Chino—cities across California, from Chino Hills to Tracy, have them in place to control density.
Chino Hills residents voted for Measure U in 1999, which requires a public vote before a developer can increase the number of housing units beyond what is allowed in the city’s general plan.
The measure has never been triggered. Critics allege that the city finds ways to bypass it.
Housing crisis
California is weathering a worsening housing crisis and ballooning unaffordability, and the state is putting the onus on cities like Chino and Chino Hills to plug in a higher number of lower-income units.
This hasn’t gone over well in cities with growth-control measures like Measure M. In Encinitas, voters twice rejected measures to place high-density zones on certain parcels as part of their city’s housing element.
An affordable housing group then sued the city for being out of compliance, and it took a San Diego County Superior Court judge to set aside Encinitas’ growth control measure so the city’s housing element could be approved, Mr. Liguori said.
Mr. Liguori noted Chino has three years after the housing element is approved to successfully implement the zone overlays.
“If the voters don’t approve it, well, we’ll just have to see how the process evolves and what happens,” Mr. Liguori said.
The earliest date a measure to approve the zone overlays could reach Chino voters would be in June 2022, Mr. Liguori said, but ultimately the decision is up to the council.
During housing element hearings in Chino Hills, several residents asked how Measure U would be impacted by the state-mandated housing allocations.
According to Chino Hills community development director Joann Lombardo, state RHNA allocations override any local residential growth control ordinances, including Measure U.
“In addition, Measure U contains language that recognizes the mandate to comply with state RHNA obligations,” she said.
According to Measure U, “the Chino Hills city council may increase residential density as necessary to meet the city’s minimum mandated housing element.”
Site selection
Some of the parcels in Chino that were picked for the plan are at familiar places—the open space around Victory Outreach Church at 11436 Central Avenue, parts of the Chino Town Square on Philadelphia Street, and a couple of strawberry fields along Riverside Drive.
The parcels were selected because of their proximity to transportation, services, and potential jobs.
But just because a certain area is chosen does not necessarily mean housing will be built there.
Chino only needs to show the state that there’s at least space to build housing if a developer comes along with plans to build.
Nor is a potential developer required to build affordable housing on land zoned for it, Mr. Liguori said.
If a developer uses a land zoned affordable to build market-rate homes, Chino must find additional parcels of land to zone for affordable housing to keep in line with the state.
The city is also required to submit a progress report to HCD every year.
It’s a delicate dance every city must do to remain in good graces with the state.
The housing element, including a list of sites selected by the city, is under public review until Aug. 8.
It will then head to the planning commission and the city council for approval.
Chino has until the end of the year to send it to HCD for final approval.
Residents may review the plan and submit comments by visiting cityofchino.org/housingelement.
“Digital Equity Strategy” presented by SANDAG
Hello, ACE21.org has been participating with National Core on WIFI for all of California.
We are close to acquiring a WIFI system for the state of California.
How many of you lack a proper WIFI connection in the City of Chino?
What has the leadership of the City Council and its Mayor done to provide the city with proper WIFI?
The answer, nothing? The entire council and Mayor do not carry.
View the presentation on WIFI by National Core & Sandbag. ACE21.org has been participating with the webinars for over six months. What about the leadership of the city Council of Chino and the Mayor? No participation!
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