Item 24 - Agreement No. 2025-01 - MLC Holdings

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SPR No. 2025-01, VTTM No. 2025-01, and DBA No. 2025-01 — MLC Holdings, Inc./Meritage Homes (2020 East First Street) March 24, 2025 Page 3 Monitoring and Reporting Program. The MEMU overlay allows for a variety of housing and commercial developments, including mixed -use residential communities, live/work units, hotels, and offices. The applicant would be activating the MEMU overlay zone to develop to the development standards allowable in the Active Urban (AU) district of the MEMU. California Senate Bill 330 The applicant is proposing a "housing development project," defined by Government Code Section 65589.5(h) as "a use consisting of residential units only, mixed use development consisting of residential and nonresidential uses with at least two-thirds of the square footage designated for residential use, and transitional housing or supportive housing." As such, the subject development will be subject to the limitations imposed by California Senate Bill (SB) 330, the Housing Crisis Act of 2019 or the HCA. SB 330 made numerous changes to existing State law and adopted the Housing Crisis Act of 2019. The changes proposed by SB 330 became effective on January 1, 2020, establishing a statewide "housing emergency" until January 1, 2025. One of the provisions of the senate bill amended Government Code Section 65941.1 with the broad goals of facilitating increased production of new residential units, protecting existing units, and providing for an expedited review and approval process for housing development projects through submittal of a "preliminary application." On January 1, 2022, the HCA was extended until January 1, 2030, with the passage of Senate Bill 8. Among other changes, SB 330 requires the following for applicable housing development projects: New, non-objective development standards established after January 1, 2020, cannot be imposed or enforced. • Applicable housing development projects must receive a decision in no more than five (5) public hearings - whether the item is being heard by a Design Review Board, Planning Commission or City Council, and including any appeals (save for those related to a legislative action). Prohibits any moratorium, project or action that would result in a net downzoning, limit the number of permits to be issued, or otherwise reduce housing or limit overall population. As a "housing development project," the application is being submitted pursuant SB 330. The development is required to comply with the objective zoning code standards applicable to the property, but only to the extent that they facilitate the development at the density