My WebLink
|
Help
|
About
|
Sign Out
Home
MO 2015-049
CityHall
>
City Clerk
>
City Council
>
Minute Orders
>
2015
>
MO 2015-049
Metadata
Thumbnails
Annotations
Entry Properties
Last modified
12/16/2015 3:42:57 PM
Creation date
12/16/2015 3:39:56 PM
Metadata
Fields
Template:
CM City Clerk-City Council
CM City Clerk-City Council - Document Type
Minute Order
Document Date (6)
12/7/2015
Retention
PERM
Document Relationships
3A Presentation 2015 1207
(Reference)
Path:
\City Clerk\City Council\Agenda Packets\2015\Packet 2015 1207
There are no annotations on this page.
Document management portal powered by Laserfiche WebLink 9 © 1998-2015
Laserfiche.
All rights reserved.
/
13
PDF
Print
Pages to print
Enter page numbers and/or page ranges separated by commas. For example, 1,3,5-12.
After downloading, print the document using a PDF reader (e.g. Adobe Reader).
View images
View plain text
2015 State Legislative Summary Page 2 of 7 <br />Assembly Bill 35 (Chiu) Income Taxes: Credits: Low Income Housing. This bill, which was <br />supported by Mayor Cutter, would have provided $100 million in low income housing <br />funding in the form of tax credits over the next five years. This was one of the main bills in a <br />larger affordable housing package that was pushed by Speaker Atkins, Asm. Chiu, and the <br />Assembly leadership. TPA was an active supporter of this bill on the city’s behalf and is <br />working as part of a large coalition to support this bill. Unfortunately Governor Brown vetoed <br />this and all other tax credit legislation, stating that a carefully balanced budget could require <br />him to cut these new programs if the state’s finances changed in the upcoming years. <br />Assembly Bill 90 (Chau) Affordable Housing Trust Fund. This bill, which was supported by <br />Mayor Cutter, designates the Department of Housing and Community Development as the <br />agency responsible for administering federal Housing Trust Funds and designates how the <br />agency must allocate affordable housing monies. TPA lobbied on behalf of the City in <br />conjunction with other stakeholders to support this bill. Governor Brown signed this bill into <br />law. <br />Assembly Bill 744 (Chau). This bill would require a local government, upon the request of a <br />developer who receives a density bonus, to reduce the minimum parking requirements for <br />certain types of housing developments. Specifically, if a housing development is 100% <br />affordable, the ratio shall not exceed 0.5 spaces per unit if the development is located <br />within a half-mile of a major transit stop. AB 744 enjoyed support from numerous regional <br />planning organizations and affordable housing advocates that see parking as a significant <br />barrier to the construction of many types of housing developments, especially in the East <br />Bay. Governor Brown signed this bill into law. <br />Assembly Bill 1335 (Atkins) Building Homes and Jobs Act was Speaker Atkin’s bill to push <br />for affordable housing funding. It proposed a $75 fee on paper transactions for commercial <br />real estate that would create $400 million annually. Due to this proposal being a new <br />revenue source, it needed a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and Assembly. The bill is <br />currently on hold and could be brought back next session. <br />Medical Cannabis Statewide Regulations <br />A comprehensive, thorough approach to statewide medicinal cannabis guidelines has been a <br />priority for the San Leandro over the last few years. The medical marijuana regulatory framework <br />includes three bills, Senate Bill 643 (McGuire), Assembly Bill 266 (Bonta) and Assembly Bill 243 <br />(Wood). TPA served as an instrumental member of a statewide coalition that supported the views <br />of both local government and the industry and provided the City with prompt, ongoing updates, <br />helped explain the various proposals and its impact on the City, and kept the City abreast of the <br />ever changing proposals. In addition, TPA actively drafted language and lobbied legislators and <br />staff to ensure statewide regulations would be in the best interest of the City and its approved <br />operator. Prior versions of this legislation contained key dates related to provisional licensing that <br />could have negatively impacted the implementation of San Leandro’s dispensary ordinance, which <br />were ultimately struck from the final version of the legislation that was signed into law by the <br />Governor. <br />The approved framework provides protections for cities and existing, approved operators, various <br />local control protections, explicit taxation authority, mechanism for funding environmental clean-up, <br />employer protections for workplace use of medical marijuana, and a strict licensure scheme <br />involving a requirement for both a state and local license, with a local license being required first. <br />The purpose of each of the three bills is summarized below: <br />SB 643 (McGuire) Medical Marijuana
The URL can be used to link to this page
Your browser does not support the video tag.