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Planning staff briefs commission on HCD policy and practice review and five state housing laws
Summary
Planning Department staff outlined HCD's Policy & Practice Review (PPR) and five state housing laws, explaining required timelines and potential impacts on local review processes; commissioners and public commenters pressed staff on equity protections, infrastructure and implementation resources.
Planning Department staff gave an informational briefing Dec. 7 on the California Department of Housing & Community Development's (HCD) Policy & Practice Review and a set of state housing laws slated to change local review practices.
Dan Sider, the department's staff lead, summarized HCD's PPR as a 44-page document listing 28 actions (18 required) with deadlines ranging from 30 days to several years. Sider said much of the PPR derives from the mayor's executive directive and the city's housing element and warned that HCD could send corrective-action letters and, if deadlines were not met, decertify the city's housing element.
Kate Connor then reviewed five state measures with likely local effect: AB 2011 (ministerial program for certain…
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