Housing data: collection and reporting.

(1) The Permit Streamlining Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each public agency to provide a development project applicant with a list that specifies the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. Existing law prohibits a local agency from requiring additional information from an applicant that was not specified in that list. The Mitigation Fee Act requires a local agency that establishes, increases, or imposes a fee as a condition of approval of a development project to, among other things, determine a reasonable relationship between the fee's use and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed. This bill would require a city, county, or special district to maintain on its internet website, as applicable, a current schedule of fees, exactions, and affordability requirements imposed by the city, county, or special district, including any dependent special district, applicable to a proposed housing development project, all zoning ordinances and development standards, and annual fee reports or annual financial reports, as specified. The bill would require a city, county, or special district to provide on its internet website an archive of impact fee nexus studies, cost of service studies, or equivalent, as specified. By requiring a city or county to include this information on its internet website, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law requires the department to update and provide a revision of the California Statewide Housing Plan to the Legislature every 4 years, as provided. Existing law requires that these revisions contain specified segments, including a comparison of the housing need for the preceding 4 years with the amount of building permits issued and mobilehome units sold in those fiscal years. This bill, for the next revision of the plan on or after January 1, 2020, and each subsequent revision thereafter, would require that revisions of the plan include a 10-year housing data strategy, as provided. The bill would require the department, in establishing the 10-year housing strategy, to establish a workgroup that includes representatives from the Department of Technology, metropolitan planning organizations, local governments, relevant academic institutions, and nonprofits. The bill would require the 10-year housing data strategy to include, among other things, an evaluation of data priorities, a strategy for how to achieve more consistent terminology for housing data across the state, and an assessment of the quality of data submitted by annual reports and recommendations based on that assessment. (3) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.