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 04/09/26 - Amended Assembly
 03/19/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/17/26 - Introduced

 AB-2005 Housing developments: urban lot split: owner-occupancy.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/22/2026 09:00 PM

AB2005:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 22, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 07, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 09, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 19, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2005

Introduced by Assembly Member Ahrens
(Coauthor: Senator Cortese)

February 17, 2026

 An act to add and repeal Section 1102.6l to of the Civil Code, and to amend amend, repeal, and add Section 66411.7 of the Government Code, relating to land use. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2005, as amended, Ahrens.
 Housing developments: urban lot split: owner-occupancy.

Under

(1) Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a city or county may adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land, as provided. The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps.

Existing law requires
 a local agency to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban lot split if the development or parcel meets specified requirements. Existing law requires the local agency to require an applicant for an urban lot split to sign an affidavit stating that the applicant intends to occupy one of the housing units as their principal residence for a minimum of 3 years from the date of the approval of the urban lot split. Existing law authorizes a local agency to adopt an ordinance to implement these provisions, as provided.

This bill would instead require the local agency to require an applicant to select one of 2 sets of owner-occupancy requirements. The first option would be for the applicant to sign, under penalty of perjury, the above-described affidavit stating that the applicant intends to occupy one of the housing units as their principal residence for a minimum of 3 years. The 2nd option would be for the applicant to sign an affidavit, under penalty of perjury,
 stating they intend to sell both parcels of an urban lot split after issuance of a certificate of occupancy and to require, as a condition of sale to a homebuyer, that one of the units on both parcels of an urban lot split remain owner occupied for 3 years, beginning on the date a parcel or unit is conveyed by the applicant to a homebuyer. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury and increasing the duties of local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

This bill would impose prescribed recording and notice requirements on this 2nd owner-occupancy requirement, as provided. The bill would provide that, for the purposes of either owner-occupancy requirement, an applicant may be the managing or authorized member member, who is a natural person, of a
 limited liability company or the trustee of a living trust.
 trust of a natural person, except that a managing or authorized member of a limited liability company shall not be an applicant if the parcel being subdivided is within the boundaries of the 2025 Palisades or Eaton Fires in the County of Los Angeles. The bill would provide that an applicant for an urban lot split who is a managing or authorized member of a limited liability company who violates these provisions would be liable for civil penalties.

This bill would additionally prohibit a local agency from adopting or imposing any requirement, process, practice, or procedure, or undertaking any course of conduct, that applies to a project solely or partially on the basis that the project is an urban lot split, including, but not limited to, restricting the eligibility of an applicant of an urban lot split.

Existing

(2) Existing law requires that specified disclosures be made upon any transfer by sale, exchange, real property sales contract, lease with an option to purchase, any other option to purchase, or ground lease