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Committee advances bill to bar hotels from using housing streamlining benefits
Summary
SB 838 would remove transient lodging (hotels) from eligibility under state housing streamlining laws, aiming to prevent developers from using housing fast‑track statutes to build hotels rather than housing. The committee approved the bill and referred it to the Assembly Committee on Local Government.
Senator Durazo introduced SB 838 to clarify that state housing streamlining laws — including the Housing Accountability Act and related statutes — should apply to housing, not to hotel development.
Durazo said developers have in some cases used housing streamlining to fast‑track projects that ultimately contain or convert to hotel rooms, citing recent examples in Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and Sacramento…
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