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 08/26/25 - Amended Assembly
 07/17/25 - Amended Assembly
 04/21/25 - Amended Senate
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 02/19/25 - Introduced

 SB-489 Local agency formation commissions: written policies and procedures: Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 10/13/2025 09:00 PM

SB489:v93#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Senate Bill

 No. 489

 CHAPTER 518

 An act to amend Sections 56300 and 65940 of the Government Code, relating to local government.

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 October 10, 2025.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 October 10, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 489, Arreguín.
 Local agency formation commissions: written policies and procedures: Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects.

(1) The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 governs the procedures for the formation and change of organization of cities and special districts and establishes a local agency formation commission in each county consisting of members appointed as provided. The act expresses the intent of the Legislature that each local agency formation commission, by January 1, 2002, establish written policies and procedures and exercise its powers in a way that encourages and provides planned, well-ordered, efficient urban development patterns, as specified. The act requires these written policies and procedures to include forms to be used for various submittals to the commission, as provided. The act requires each commission to provide access to notices and other information to the public on an internet website, as specified, including notice of all
 public hearings and commission meetings.

This bill would require that each local agency formation commission establish the written policies and procedures described above. The bill would require that the written policies and procedures include any forms necessary for a complete application to the commission concerning a proposed change of organization or reorganization. The bill would require each commission to provide access to its written policies and procedures to the public, including any forms necessary for a complete application for a change of organization or reorganization, through its internet website.

(2) The Permit Streamlining Act, among other things, requires a public agency to compile a list of
 the information required from an applicant for a development project, as provided.

This bill
 would require a public agency, for each type of approval issued in connection with a housing development project, as defined, to publish online the above-described list, including the criteria that the public agency will apply in order to determine the completeness of the development application and the name of the type of approval, as provided.

(3) By increasing the duties of local agency formation commissions in establishing and publishing written policies and procedures and of local planning officials in reviewing permit applications
 for housing development projects, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 56300 of the Government Code is amended to read:

56300.

 (a) Each commission shall establish written policies and procedures and exercise its powers pursuant to this part in a manner consistent with those policies and procedures and that encourages and provides planned, well-ordered, efficient urban development patterns with appropriate consideration of preserving open-space and agricultural lands within those patterns.

(b) Each commission with a proposal pending on January 1, 2001, shall, by March 31, 2001, hold a public hearing to discuss the adoption of policies and procedures to requir