Following the Fourth of July holiday, the California State Legislature will have another couple of weeks before its summer recess. With a July 18 deadline for policy committees to hear and report bills before the monthlong recess, here are the statuses of some of the housing legislation proposed by lawmakers whose districts include North County:<\/p>\n
SB 92<\/strong><\/p>\n Introduced by State Sen. Catherine Blakespear this bill would add restrictions to the density bonus law that prevents large commercial projects with relatively little housing.<\/p>\n The bill passed the Senate at the end of May and passed its first committee hearing in the Assembly on July 2.<\/p>\n \u201cThe state\u2019s density bonus law incentivizes the building of housing, and we want that,\u201d Blakespear said in a statement. \u201cBut we need to ensure developers aren\u2019t exploiting the density bonus law by building giant commercial projects that otherwise wouldn\u2019t be allowed. SB 92 adds appropriate guardrails to the density bonus law to align it with its intended purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n AB 87<\/strong><\/p>\n A bill in the Assembly by Tasha Boerner also would ensure that the density bonus law would not bolster commercial portions of a development at the expense of new housing units. AB 87 was approved on the Assembly floor in May and passed its first committee hearing in the Senate on June 24.<\/p>\n SB 569<\/strong><\/p>\n Another bill by Blakespear would create a liaison to coordinate efforts between cities and the state on removal of homeless encampments on state highways and roads.<\/p>\n SB 569 was approved by the state Senate in June.<\/p>\n \u201cHomeless encampments by roads are dangerous for people living there, for the community and for motorists,\u201d Blakespear said in a statement. \u201cWe know that they can be the source for fires, pollution and traffic congestion.\u201d<\/p>\n AB 253<\/strong><\/p>\n AB 253 would allow licensed professionals to review permits if local building departments can\u2019t get to them within 30 days, in an effort to expedite the process.<\/p>\n The bill passed on the Assembly floor in April and passed its first committee hearing in the Senate on July 2.<\/p>\n \u201cBy modernizing the permitting process, we\u2019re making it faster, easier, and more efficient to get homes built for Californians who need them,\u201d Ward said in a statement.<\/p>\n AB 474<\/strong><\/p>\n Known as the Home-Sharing Act of 2025, the bill would expand nonprofit home sharing with a goal of helping more older, low-income residents with available rooms. AB 474 was approved by the Assembly in June and passed its first committee hearing in the Senate on July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the Fourth of July holiday, the California State Legislature will have another couple of weeks before its…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7350,7807,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-44450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-del-mar-times","12":"tag-del-mar-times-news","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114808671924225809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}