AB 571 · Housing Laws Navigator
Bills · 2021-2022 Session

AB 571

Planning and zoning: density bonuses: affordable housing.Ch. 346, Stats. 2021 · chaptered 2021-09-28 · Current law

Key provisions · Claude summary of the digest, not bill text

Barred local agencies from imposing affordable housing impact fees on the affordable units in a housing development.

  • Fee prohibition. Prohibited affordable housing impact fees, including inclusionary zoning fees and in-lieu fees, from being imposed on a housing development's affordable units.
  • Density Bonus context. Applied within the Density Bonus Law, which grants bonuses and incentives to developments that include specified percentages of very low, low-, or moderate-income units.

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SEC. 1In the navigator:§ 65915.1changes

Section 65915.1 is added to the Government Code, to read:

SEC. 2

No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code.

Source: LegiScan API, chaptered text of AB 571 (2021-2022 Session).

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