Title GOV — California Gov. Code

(a) A city that is incorporated to promote commerce and industry, that is located in the County of Los Angeles, and that has no residentially zoned land within its boundaries on January 1, 1992, may elect to adopt a housing element that makes no provision for new housing or the s…

(a) The County of Napa may, during its current housing element planning period, identified in Section 65588, meet up to 15 percent of its existing share of the regional housing need for lower income households, as defined in Section 65584, by committing funds for the purpose of c…

(a) In the preparation of its housing element, each city and county shall consider the guidelines adopted by the department pursuant to Section 50459 of the Health and Safety Code. Those guidelines shall be advisory to each city or county in the preparation of its housing element…

In any suit brought to enforce either this article or any state law listed under subdivision (j) of Section 65585, the department and the office of the Attorney General shall each have the unconditional right to intervene under subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (d)…

(a) For purposes of this section, “quantified development standard” means a site’s maximum density or requirements for a height limit, setback, maximum or minimum unit size, lot coverage, or floor area ratio. (b) To the extent that a quantified development standard contained in a…

A housing element or amendment shall be considered to be in substantial compliance with this article when the local agency adopts the housing element or amendment for the current planning period in accordance with Section 65585 and either of the following apply: (a) The departmen…

(a) The department shall notify the city, county, or city and county and may notify the office of the Attorney General that the city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law, as provided in subdivision (j) of Section 65585, as amended by Chapter 159 of the Statute…

(a) The department shall notify the office of the Attorney General that the County of Napa or the City of Napa, as applicable, is in violation of state law, as provided in subdivision (j) of Section 65585, as amended by Chapter 159 of the Statutes of 2019, if it finds that either…

(a) Each city, county, or city and county shall bring its housing element, as required by subdivision (c) of Section 65302, into conformity with the requirements of this article on or before October 1, 1981, and the deadlines set by Section 65588. Except as specifically provided …

(a) Each local government shall review its housing element as frequently as appropriate to evaluate all of the following: (1) The appropriateness of the housing goals, objectives, and policies in contributing to the attainment of the state housing goal. (2) The effectiveness of t…

(a) Nothing in this article shall require a city, county, or city and county to do any of the following: (1) Expend local revenues for the construction of housing, housing subsidies, or land acquisition. (2) Disapprove any residential development which is consistent with the gene…

(a) The department shall post on its internet website each month a list of jurisdictions that have failed to adopt a housing element that has been found by the department to be in substantial compliance with the requirements of this article pursuant to Section 65585. The departme…

In any action filed on or after January 1, 1991, taken to challenge the validity of a housing element, both of the following shall apply, as applicable: (a) There shall be a rebuttable presumption of the validity of the element or amendment if, pursuant to Section 65585, the depa…

(a) An attached housing development shall be a permitted use not subject to a conditional use permit on any parcel zoned for an attached housing development if local law so provides or if it satisfies the requirements of subdivision (b) and either of the following: (1) The attach…

(a) For the purposes of Section 65589.5, the definition of “disapprove the housing development project” may include any instance in which a local agency fails to adopt a negative declaration or addendum for the project, to certify an environmental impact report for the project, o…

(a) For purposes of a local agency’s approval, conditional approval, or disapproval of a housing development project pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 65589.5, a housing element or amendment shall be considered in substantial compliance with this article only if the element …

In any action taken to challenge the validity of a decision by a city, county, or city and county to disapprove a project or approve a project upon the condition that it be developed at a lower density pursuant to Section 65589.5, the city, county, or city and county shall bear t…

(a) The housing element adopted by the legislative body and any amendments made to that element shall be immediately delivered to all public agencies or private entities that provide water or sewer services for municipal and industrial uses, including residential, within the terr…

A local government which adopts a requirement in its housing element that a housing development contain a fixed percentage of affordable housing units, shall permit a developer to satisfy all or a portion of that requirement by constructing rental housing at affordable monthly re…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to create incentives for jurisdictions that are compliant with housing element requirements and have enacted prohousing local policies. It is the intent of the Legislature that these incentives be in the form of additional points or other p…

(a) In addition to the requirements of Article 10.6 (commencing with Section 65580), the provisions and requirements of this section shall apply within the coastal zone as defined and delineated in Division 20 (commencing with Section 30000) of the Public Resources Code. Each res…

Any local government which receives an application as provided in Section 30600.1 of the Public Resources Code to apply the requirements of Section 65590 to a proposed development shall apply these requirements within 90 days from the date on which it has received that applicatio…

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Water Conservation in Landscaping Act.

Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions govern the construction of this article: (a) “Department” means the Department of Water Resources. (b) “Director” means the Director of Water Resources. (c) “Local agency” means any city, county, or city and county,…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The waters of the state are of limited supply and are subject to ever increasing demands. (b) The continuation of California’s economic prosperity is dependent on adequate supplies of water being available for future us…

(a) Except as provided in Section 65595, if by January 1, 1993, a local agency did not adopt a water efficient landscape ordinance and did not adopt findings based on climatic, geological, or topographical conditions, or water availability that state that a water efficient landsc…

(a) (1) To the extent funds are appropriated, not later than January 1, 2009, by regulation, the department shall update the model water efficient landscape ordinance adopted pursuant to Chapter 1145 of the Statutes of 1990, after holding one or more public hearings. The updated …

The updated model ordinance adopted pursuant to Sections 65595 and 65596.5 shall do all the following in order to reduce water use: (a) Include provisions for water conservation and the appropriate use and groupings of plants that are well-adapted to particular sites and to parti…

(a) On or before January 1, 2020, and at least every three years thereafter, the department, after holding one or more public hearings, shall do one of the following: (1) Update the model water-efficient landscape ordinance adopted pursuant to Chapter 1145 of the Statutes of 1990…

(a) On or before June 30, 2019, the director shall convene a working group comprised of representatives from the landscape nursery industry, the agricultural community, the landscape retail industry, environmental organizations, urban water agencies, academia, landscape contracto…

Not later than January 31, 2010, each local agency shall notify the department as to whether the local agency is subject to the department’s updated model ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 65595, and if not, shall submit to the department a copy of the water efficient landsca…

Any model ordinance adopted pursuant to this article shall exempt cemeteries from all provisions of the ordinance except those set forth in subdivisions (h), (k), and (l) of Section 65596. In adopting language specific to cemeteries, the department shall recognize the special lan…

Any actions or proceedings to attach, review, set aside, void, or annul the act, decision, or findings of a local agency on the ground of noncompliance with this article shall be brought pursuant to Section 1085 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Water Recycling in Landscaping Act.

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The waters of the state are of limited supply and are subject to ever-increasing demands. (b) The continuation of California’s economic prosperity is dependent on adequate supplies of water being available for future us…

Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions used in this section govern the construction of this article: (a) “Designated recycled water use area” means areas within the boundaries of the local agency that can or may in the future be served with recycled water in lieu …

If a recycled water producer determines that within 10 years the recycled water producer will provide recycled water within the boundaries of a local agency that meets all of the conditions described in Section 13550 of the Water Code, the recycled water producer shall notify the…

(a) Within 180 days of receipt of notification from a recycled water producer pursuant to Section 65604, the local agency shall adopt and enforce a recycled water ordinance pursuant to this article. (b) The ordinance shall include, but not be limited to, provisions that do all of…

The recycled water ordinance adopted by a local agency pursuant to Section 65605 shall not apply to either of the following: (a) A tentative map as defined in Section 66424.5, or a development, as defined in Section 65927, that was approved by the local agency prior to the receip…

(a) This article shall not apply to any local agency that adopted a recycled water ordinance or other regulation requiring the use of recycled water in its jurisdiction prior to January 1, 2001. (b) This article does not alter any rights, remedies, or obligations that may exist p…

For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) “Housing development” or “development” means new or substantially rehabilitated residential dwelling units constructed within a Workforce Housing Opportunity Zone. A residential project may i…

(a) A local government may establish a Workforce Housing Opportunity Zone by preparing an environmental impact report pursuant to Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code to identify and mitigate, to the extent feasible, environmental impacts resul…

(a) Before a date that is no later than five years from the date the local government has adopted the specified plan, the local government shall complete the analysis required by Section 21166 of the Public Resources Code and shall consider whether any amendments are required to …

(a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), for a period of five years from the adoption of the specific plan pursuant to Section 65621, a local government shall approve a development that satisfies all of the criteria listed in paragraphs (3) to (7), inclusive, of subdivision (…

(a) A local government may submit an application to the Department of Housing and Community Development for a grant or no-interest loan, or both, to support the local government’s efforts to develop a specific plan and accompanying environmental impact report within a Workforce H…

A local government shall include within its annual report provided pursuant to Section 65400 the number of housing units approved within a zone that comply with the criteria in subdivision (c) of Section 65623 during the previous fiscal year.

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The 2020 annual report, as published by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, found that California is falling far short of the state diversion goal of 75 percent in 2020. (2) A significant portion of …

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Thrift retail store” means a retail store and related donation facilities engaged primarily in the sale of secondhand clothing, shoes, apparel, toys, and standard household goods, including furniture, fixtures, a…

(a) Except as provided by subdivisions (c) to (e), inclusive, a local agency shall not treat a thrift retail store differently from a nonthrift retail store engaged in the sale of new items that are similar to items sold by a thrift retail store for purposes of zoning, developmen…

For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Administrative office space” means an organizational headquarters or auxiliary office space utilized by a nonprofit organization for the purpose of providing onsite supportive services at a supportive housi…