The California Department of Housing and Community Development
(HCD) released its lists of affected jurisdictions under
SB 330 (Chapter 654, Statutes of 2019), which imposed
restrictions on certain types of development standards, amended
the Housing Accountability Act, and made changes to local
approval processes and the Permit Streamlining Act until January
1, 2025, as noted in a
bulletin article on new laws impacting counties.
The lists of affected cities and counties are available on HCD’s
statutory determinations webpage. Impacted counties includes
the following:
Northern Region: Alameda, Contra Costa,
Sacramento, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Marin, Monterey
Central Region: Fresno, Kern, Madera, Merced,
San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare
Southern Region: Los Angeles, Orange,
Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura
A full list of the census designated places affected within each
of these counties is
available here.
CSAC worked closely with the author’s office and requested a
number of amendments to the bill last year, which removed
provisions waiving impact fees under certain circumstances,
retained a deal that CSAC and others negotiated with developers
on the Housing Accountability Act in 2018, and changed the
definition of “affected county” so that certain limitations on
local government planning would apply only to a limited number of
highly-urban census designated places rather than throughout the
entire unincorporated area.
Please note that the list of affected jurisdictions may be
updated on or after January 1, 2021 to account for changes in
urbanized areas or urban clusters based on new data obtained from
the 2020 census.
