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The San Ramon City Council is set to discuss California’s housing crisis and how state legislation is limiting local control during its regular meeting on Tuesday evening.
City officials will review California Senate Bill 330 — dubbed the “Housing Crisis Act of 2019” — and discuss how it will change the development and review process for approving housing projects.
“Senate Bill 330, signed by the governor in October 2019, limits the ability of cities and counties to regulate residential and mixed use housing developments in order to prevent local agencies from putting up new barriers to housing production,” community development director Debbie Chamberlain wrote in a staff report.
Meant to streamline the approval process of housing projects and developments, the new bill will prohibit city officials from conducting more than five hearings reviewing a project — including continuances from previous meetings — if the development in question complies with objective general plan and zoning standards, according to Chamberlain.
The bill provides no provisions to allow for a mutually agreeable extension of the five hearing limit, potentially limiting the number and amount of time in which city run commissions and committees can review a given project significantly.
For the actual review process of a project, local jurisdictions are required to create an application checklist and cannot request any items that are not on that checklist, according to Chamberlain. If city staff deem that the application is incomplete then they have 30 days to explain why, effectively limiting jurisdictions to one opportunity to determine whether an application is complete.
Provisions of SB 330 will remain in effect until Jan. 1, 2025.
The City Council is set to hold its regular meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, in the San Ramon City Hall Council Chambers, 7000 Bollinger Canyon Road.
In other business
* During Tuesday’s meeting, council members are also set to appoint a group of residents to serve on San Ramon’s Senior Citizen Advisory Committee.
* Reviewing the San Ramon’s financial situation, city officials are set to review an annual audit report for the fiscal year that ended in June 30, 2019.
* City officials then plan to continue their review of San Ramon’s zoning ordinance and will consider making text and mapping amendments in order to establish consistency between the zoning map and existing General Plan land-use designations.
* To close out Tuesday’s meeting, the council will consider approving 2020 City Council liaison appointments to various city and regional committees, foundations and other agencies as well as ex-officio assignments.
The City and State governments are supposed to support and represent the citizens, but our City and our State are not. They are lowering our quality of life.Traffic in San Ramon is horrible. The infrastructure cannot support the addition of thousands of new residents next to Bollinger Canyon Road. It is just making the developers richer.
Build on the far edges. Add new roads Why not in Danville and Alamo?
The first paragraph of what Al wrote makes sense & I agree 100& with. His second one liner paragraph is not acceptable.
Why does San Ramon even have a city council if it is micro managed & inflexibly ruled by the dictates of Sacramento to build more & more high density housing.
California is circling the drain. Residents are leaving this once great state. Why?, because CA is run by an ultra-liberal one party dictatorship. Why?, because the non-critical thinking voters here keep returning ultra-liberals to office.
Is the city of San Ramon going to address the homeless issues? I have seen numerous homeless people, both men and women. Carts full of stuff, homeless people living out of their vehicles parking in the Safeway Parking lot. When you do not deal with these issues early on you are going to end up like San Francisco and Oakland. Are they being directed towards shelters or any services to get them off the street?