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Recommendation to request City Manager and all relevant City Departments to assess likely Citywide impacts of SB 9 and SB 10 and report back to the State Legislation Committee, prior to any established hearing date at the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
DISCUSSION
Currently, the City’s 2021 State Legislative Agenda <https://www.longbeach.gov/globalassets/city-manager/media-library/documents/memos-to-the-mayor-tabbed-file-list-folders/2021/january-29--2021---adopted-2021-state-legislative-agenda> includes items related to retaining local control over zoning and land use as it pertains to any state housing production bill coming up for consideration.
On January 1, 2020, new State-law took effect in Long Beach to create opportunities for accessory dwelling units <https://www.longbeach.gov/lbds/planning/adus/> (ADUs), also known as “granny flats.”
In 2020, our City Manager released a memo giving status updates on our State Senate Housing Production Legislation <https://www.longbeach.gov/globalassets/city-manager/media-library/documents/memos-to-the-mayor-tabbed-file-list-folders/2020/august-31--2020---state-senate-housing-production-legislation->.
Now, we have two Senate Bills being reintroduced, SB 9 <https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9> (formerly SB 1120) and SB 10 <https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB10> (formerly SB 902) working their way through the state legislative process. In order to maintain transparency of these proposed changes, and to mitigate the misinformation spread by uninformed parties, it is important that we as council and our residents understand the total Citywide impacts of these bills that can best inform any City and resident advocacy efforts.
To this end, we move that the Long Beach City Council direct the City Manager and all relevant City departments to assess likely Citywide impacts of SB 9 and SB 10 and report back to the State Legislation Committee, prior to any established hearing date at the Assembly Appropriations Committee, with the following information:
1) The areas of impact by Council District;
2) The parameters of what is permitted and restricted within the proposed allowances for subdivision, duplexing, and number of units per lot;
3) How these changes relate to our current ADU ordinance; and
4) How we as a City are advocating for maintaining local controls and ensuring reasonable reforms that maintain the character of our single-family residential neighborhoods.
STATEMENT OF URGENCY
Approval of this recommendation is urgent due to timeliness of recent state-level actions surrounding SB 9 and SB 10 housing production bills.
FISCAL IMPACT
No Financial Management review was able to be conducted due to the urgency and time sensitivity of this item.
SUGGESTED ACTION
Approve recommendation.
Respectfully Submitted,
STACY MUNGO
COUNCILWOMAN, FIFTH DISTRICT
DARYL SUPERNAW
COUNCILMAN, FOURTH DISTRICT
ROBERTO URANGA
COUNCILMEMBER, SEVENTH DISTRICT
AL AUSTIN
COUNCILMAN, EIGHTH DISTRICT