San Tomas Area Community Coalition

CASA Related Links Page

To send email to our coalition send to: CASAcoalition@staccna.org

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Website for the CASA Compact (Committee to House the Bay Area). This link is where you can find an updated copy of the CASA documents, schedules, and news as well as contact information.

https://mtc.ca.gov/our-work/plans-projects/casa-committee-house-bay-area

CASA COMPACT ITEM# and the LEGISLATIVE BILL RELATED TO THE LINE ITEM

Just Cause Eviction: (AB-2925 defeated in 2018) no current bill
Rent Cap: AB 36 (Bloom) Affordable housing: rental prices
Legal Counsel: SB 18 (Skinner) Keep Californians Housed Act:
ADUs: AB 69 (Ting) Land Use: accessory Dwelling units:

SB 13 (Wieckowski) Accessory Dwelling Units:

Minimum Zoning: SB-50 Planning and zoning: housing development: equitable communities incentive. (Wiener)
Good Government:
Streamlining: SB-6 Housing production: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB6
Public Lands:
Funding: SB-5 Local-State Sustainable Investment Incentive Program
Regional Housing Enterprise:

OTHER RELATED PLANS

New Transit Service Plan 2019

This shows the routes and maps and schedules and will be used to determine if a project meets the proximity to public transportation lines for SB 50.

LEGISLATIVE BILLS OF NOTE

SB 50 Fact Sheet published by Wiener

SB-330 Housing Crisis Act of 2019

This bill, until January 1, 2030, with respect to land where housing is an allowable use, would prohibit the legislative body of a county or city, defined to include the electorate exercising its local initiative or referendum power, in which specified conditions exist, from enacting an amendment to a general plan or adopting or amending any zoning ordinance that would have the effect of (A) changing the zoning classification of a parcel or parcels of property to a less intensive use or reducing the intensity of land use within an existing zoning district below what was allowed under the general plan land use designation and zoning ordinances of the county or city as in effect on January 1, 2018; (B) imposing a moratorium on housing development within all or a portion of the jurisdiction of the county or city, except as provided; (C) imposing design standards that are more costly than those in effect on January 1, 2019; or (D) establishing a maximum number of conditional use or other discretionary permits that the county or city will issue for the development of housing within all or a portion of the county or city, or otherwise imposing a cap on the number of housing units within or the population of the county or city

ARTICLES

Palo Alto Online: Regional Housing Plan Splits Elected Leaders

This is a pretty good description of what is in the SB 50 bill.

San Diego shifts to dense Development

San Diego promoting SB 50 types of development.

SF Chronical: California should Recognize Housing Emergency

Medium Article by Wiener

Nancy Skinner Bills

AGENCIES AND GROUPS AGAINST SB50

AGENCIES AND GROUPS IN FAVOR OF SB50

Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California

Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition (BayHAC)