Central Valley Flood Protection Plan: planning and land use.

(1) Existing law provides for the Central Valley Flood Protection Board with the authority to construct and maintain various flood control works. Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources, by January 1, 2012, to prepare, and transmit to the board, the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan, which is a systemwide plan for the protection of specified lands protected by the facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control. The board is required to adopt the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan by July 1, 2012. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those requirements. (2) Existing law requires each city and county within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley, within 24 months of the adoption of the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan, to amend its general plan to include specified data, policies, and implementation measures. The city or county is also required, within 36 months of the adoption of the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan, but not more than 12 months after the amendment of its general plan, to amend its zoning ordinance to be consistent with the general plan, as amended. After the general plan amendments and zoning ordinance amendments have become effective, the city or county, unless it makes specified findings, is prohibited from entering into a development agreement for property that is located within a flood hazard zone, is prohibited from approving specified permits that would result in specified construction located within a flood hazard zone, and is required to deny approval of a tentative map, or a parcel map for which a tentative map was not required, for a subdivision located within the flood hazard zone. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the specified findings that a city or county may make for those purposes.