SECTIONS 65890.1-65890.5 - California Statutes

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SECTION 65890.1-65890.5

65890.1. The Legislature finds and declares that:
(a) State land use patterns should be encouraged that balance the
location of employment-generating uses with residential uses so that
employment-related commuting is minimized.
(b) Balance in employment and residential land use patterns
reduces traffic congestion and may contribute to improvement of air
quality in urban areas.
(c) Balancing of employment-generating land uses and residential
land uses improves economic and housing opportunities and reduces
loss of economic productivity caused by transportation delay.
(d) The attainment of a more balanced land use pattern requires
the cooperation of government agencies with the private sector to
assure that public and private decisions affecting land use take into
consideration the need to seek balance in the location of
employment-generating land uses and residential land uses.
(e) Local agencies and state agencies should cooperate to
facilitate the balancing of employment-generating land uses and
residential land uses and provisions of transportation to serve these
uses.
(f) Local governments have the primary responsibility to plan for
local land use patterns, within the parameters established by state
law to achieve statewide needs.
(g) Housing must be provided for the estimated 3 million new
workers and their families expected to be added to the California
economy in the 1990's.
(h) It is the intent of the Legislature to move toward the goal
that every California worker have available the opportunity to reside
close to his or her jobsite.

65890.3. The Department of Housing and Community Development shall
prepare a guidebook for use by cities, counties, councils of
government, state agencies, and the private sector in the planning
and development of a housing supply to meet the need created by
employment growth. The guidebook shall be prepared in time for use
following the availability of the 1990 Census of Population and
Housing.

65890.5. (a) The guidebook shall include the following:
(1) Methodologies for measuring the balance of jobs and housing.
(2) Methodologies for analysis of the projected needed housing
supply to serve projected employment growth.
(3) Methodologies to encourage the balance of jobs and housing.
(4) Incentives which local, regional, and state agencies may offer
to the private sector to encourage developments and design which
will facilitate an improved balance between employment generating
land use and residential land use.
(5) Methodologies cities and counties may use to analyze trip
generation and vehicle miles traveled to and from employment centers.
(6) Methodologies cities and counties may use to achieve more
efficient use of transportation facilities serving major employment
centers.
(7) Descriptions of successful and unsuccessful efforts by cities
or counties to move toward improved jobs-housing balance.
(b) The guidebook shall seek to describe and evaluate the various
tools available to local, regional, and state governments to measure,
evaluate, and improve the balance of jobs and housing and to
mitigate the undesirable effects of any imbalance between jobs and
housing. The guidebook shall describe efforts by cities, counties,
and regional agencies to improve the balance of jobs and housing.
(c) The department shall consult with interested parties and
organizations such as academic institutions, environmental groups,
businesses, labor unions, real estate groups, housing advocacy
groups, cities, counties, and regional agencies. The final guidebook
shall be completed no later than December 31, 1993.
(d) Within two years of final publication of the guidebook, the
Assembly Office of Research shall complete a study of the
effectiveness of the guidebook as a decisionmaking tool by public
agencies and the private sector to facilitate improved jobs-housing
balance. The study shall include the office's recommendations for
legislation needed to improve the effectiveness of decisionmaking as
it relates to achieving jobs-housing balance, if any.