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City attorney briefs commission on 2025 housing laws, CEQA exemptions and overlay‑zone court ruling
Summary
The city attorney told the Planning Commission about recent 2025 changes to the Housing Accountability Act, CEQA statutory exemptions for certain multifamily projects, subdivision‑map act changes and a court ruling on overlay zones that could affect housing‑element strategies statewide; staff advised most of the new tools do not apply directly to Calabasas today.
The Calabasas Planning Commission received a detailed legal briefing on Nov. 20 about a wave of 2025 state housing laws and a recent court ruling that may alter common planning tools.
The city attorney (who presented the material) outlined several changes: amendments to the Housing Accountability Act (HAA) that narrow the grounds for denying qualifying housing projects and expand enforcement remedies; updates to CEQA that create a new statutory exemption for many multifamily projects in urban areas (including larger maximum site sizes and a defined tribal consultation process); ministerial‑approval pathways for small urban subdivisions under the Subdivision Map Act (limited by very‑high fire‑hazard zones); and SB 79, which facilitates ministerial approvals near certain transit stations (not applicable to…
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