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 03/24/25 - Amended Senate
 02/11/25 - Introduced

 SB-322 Urban equestrian inclusion zones.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/24/2025 09:00 PM

SB322:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 June 24, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 21, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 24, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 322

Introduced by Senator Menjivar

February 11, 2025

 An act to amend Section 66300 of, and to add Chapter 6.4 (commencing with Section 51043) to Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of of, the Government Code, relating to local government. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 322, as amended, Menjivar.
 Urban equestrian initiative inclusion zones.

Existing law, the Urban Agriculture Incentive Zones Act, authorizes, under specified conditions, a city, county, or city and county to establish by ordinance an urban agriculture incentive zone for the purpose of entering into voluntary contracts with landowners to enforceably restrict the use of vacant, unimproved, or otherwise blighted lands for small-scale production of agricultural crops and animal husbandry. Existing law prohibits a city, county, or city and county from entering into a new contract or renewing an existing contract under these provisions after January 1, 2029.

This bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county, under specified conditions, to establish by ordinance an urban equestrian incentive
 inclusion zone within its boundaries for the purpose of entering into enforceable contracts, as described, with landowners, on a voluntary basis, for restricting land use for equestrian activities, as defined. The bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from entering into a new contract or renewing an existing contract under these provisions after January 1, 2029.

Existing law, the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, prohibits certain counties and cities from enacting a development policy, standard, or condition that would have any of specified effects, including reducing the intensity of land use within an existing general plan land use designation, specific plan land use designation, or zoning district in effect at the time of the proposed change, below what was allowed under the land use designation or zoning ordinances of the county or
 city, as in effect on January 1, 2018, except as specified. Existing law defines “reducing the intensity of land use” for these purposes.

This bill would include entering into enforceable contracts with landowners for restricting land use for equestrian activities within the definition of “reducing the intensity of land use.”

The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Chapter 6.4 (commencing with Section 51043) is added to Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code, to read:

 CHAPTER
 6.4. Urban Equestrian Incentive Inclusion Zones

51043.

 (a) (1) (A) (i)A city, county, or city and county may, after a public hearing, establish by ordinance an urban equestrian incentive inclusion zone within its boundaries for the purpose of entering into enforceable contracts with landowners, on a voluntary basis, for restricting land use for equestrian activities.

(ii)

(B) The boundaries may include shall be within an equine or equestrian district designated by a general plan or specific or master plan, which may include a specific narrative reference to a geographically determined area or map of the same. Parcels adjoined and parcels only separated by a street or highway shall be considered to be within an equine or equestrian district.

(iii)

(C) The boundaries shall not include any parcels included in the sites inventory pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 65583.

(B)A city, county, or city and county may, after a public hearing, establish by ordinance an urban equestrian incentive zone within its boundaries for the purpose of entering into enforceable contracts