Planning and zoning: housing element: annual progress report.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each city, county, or city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to contain an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints to meeting those needs. Existing law requires the assessment and inventory to include, among other things, documentation of projections and a quantification of the locality's existing and projected housing needs for all income levels, as defined, and the locality's share of the regional housing need, as specified. Existing law requires each planning agency, after the legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, to, among other things, provide an annual report to specified entities that includes specified information, including the progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs as determined by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would require each planning agency, in their above-described annual report, to include the number of rental housing units and for-sale units that have been completed, as evidenced by the project's certificate of occupancy, pursuant to the above-described assessment and inventory. 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.