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Southern California Office ▪ 1401 Dove Street • Suite 330 • Newport Beach, CA 92660 • Phone (949) 399-9050 • Fax (949) 476-8215 Northern California Office ▪ 300 Frank Ogawa Pl.• Suite 204 • Oakland, CA 94612• Phone (510) 835-9050 • Fax (510) 835-9030 State Capitol Office ▪ 925 L Street • Suite 1404 • Sacramento, CA 95814 • Phone (916) 447-4086 • Fax (916) 444-2063 Federal Government Office ▪ 611 Pennsylvania Avenue SE • #331 • Washington, DC • Phone (202) 744-2926 M E M O R A N D U M To: Mayor Pauline Russo Cutter and Members of the San Leandro City Council CC: Chris Zapata, City Manager Eric Engelbart, Deputy City Manager From: Christopher Townsend, President, Townsend Public Affairs, Inc. Niccolo De Luca, Senior Director, Townsend Public Affairs, Inc. Alex Gibbs, Associate, Townsend Public Affairs, Inc. Date: December 1, 2017 Subject: Summary of 2017 State Legislative Activities Townsend Public Affairs, Inc. (TPA) has prepared this report for the City of San Leandro following the end of the 2017 State legislative session. This report lists our efforts to date including a summary of our legislative advocacy actions on behalf of the City. Summary of 2017 State Legislative Highlights TPA worked with the elected City leadership and Administration to develop, advocate, and secure several major City initiatives through various means, including: legislation, the drafting of administrative guidelines, and working directly with our elected leaders in Sacramento. Affordable Housing legislation One of the City’s top priorities was affordable housing. With that direction TPA began to identify, support and advance legislative proposals supporting and encouraging affordable and workforce housing. TPA, on behalf of the City, was a very active member of multiple efforts and coalitions to help advance landmark housing legislation approved this year, which included: • SB 2 (Atkins) Establishes the Building Homes and Jobs Act (Act) and imposes a $75 fee on real estate transaction documents, excluding commercial and residential real-estate sales, to provide a permanent source of funding for affordable housing. Half of the funds collected in the first year are to be spent towards persons experiencing homelessness and the remaining half to be made available to localities to update planning documents and zoning ordinances. In year two and beyond, 70% of the funds shall be distributed directly to local agencies and 30% shall go to the state. • SB 3 (Beall) Authorizes $3 billion in general obligation bonds for existing affordable housing programs, including multi-family rental and homeownership. This bill will be put before the voters on the November 2018 ballot. • SB 35 (Weiner) Creates a streamlined, ministerial approval process for in-fill development in localities that have failed to meet their regional housing needs assessment. Localities that fail to meet their moderate-income unit construction must have a 10% inclusionary requirement, and localities that fail to meet their lower-income unit construction must have a 50% inclusionary requirement. 524