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The law was drafted by Laura Friedman, and emanated from portions of California Senate Bill 50, an unsuccessful 2019 bill which would have both prohibited parking mandates within 0.5 miles of a major transit stop as well as mandated minimum four-plex residential zoning in the same locations.
In an effort to lower the cost of construction and cut down on car dependence, California has recently adopted a law that prohibits local governments from setting minimum parking requirements for ...
To fight climate change and the California's housing affordability crisis, Gov. Newsom signed a bill that will bar cities from setting minimum parking requirements near transit stops.
The bill would have also eliminated minimum requirements for parking and prohibited local design requirements that would lower the amount of space in a new development. [14] The bill would have affected roughly 50 percent of single-family homes in Los Angeles and 96 percent of land in San Francisco. [15] [16]
In recognition of the many problems parking minimums cause, since 2017 many U.S. cities have overhauled or entirely repealed their parking minimum laws. [12] [13] The average number of parking spots per new residential unit increased from 0.8 in 1950 to a peak of 1.7 in 1998, and has since declined to 1.1 by 2022. [5]
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed a bill into law that frees developers of strict parking requirements near public transit. ‘Unwinding really backward policy:’ California abolishes decades ...
California Senate Bill 1534 (SB 1534, Government Code section 65852.2) is a 1982 California statute law which established statewide options for local governments to promote and regulate secondary suites, also known as "accessory dwelling units" (ADUs) in California. Under the law, local governments were allowed the following options:
More on housing: Workforce housing programs require tight enforcement We need to rework our code when it comes to parking, to reflect the reality that a one-bedroom unit for a senior with income ...