The Community Redevelopment Law authorized the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of blight. That law defined various physical conditions that cause blight, including adjacent or nearby incompatible land uses that prevent the development of those parcels or other portions of the project area. Under that law, a redevelopment agency was required to prepare a redevelopment plan for each project area in accordance with certain requirements and procedures, including that the plan be consistent with the community's general plan.
Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies. A successor agency is generally vested with all authority, rights, powers, duties, and obligations of the former redevelopment agency under the Community Redevelopment Law, except as specified.
This bill would prohibit the successor agency of the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, and the City of Los Angeles if it requests the transfer of all land use-related plans and functions of the former redevelopment agency, from enforcing any provision of a redevelopment plan for an area of the City of Los Angeles that imposes greater restrictions on the allowable intensity of housing, as defined, than any applicable general plan land use designation, specific plan land use designation, local zoning, or local affordable housing incentive program. By imposing new duties on local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Los Angeles.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.