A list of recent updates to planning and zoning laws in California.
Updates to California Planning and Zoning Law
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PACE program administration
Rules for program administration for PACE contracts.
Bonds for affordable housing and farm and home aid for veterans
The Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018 to create bonds for affordable housing and housing for veterans.
The Equifax breach: how credit reporting agencies handle your data
What the Equifax data breach of 2017 means for how credit reporting agencies (CRAs) treat your personal credit information, and what you can do to protect yourself and your clients.
Courts may refuse to compel arbitration for fraudulent bank accounts
Calif. Civil Procedure Code §1281.2 Amended by S. B. 33 Effective date: January 1, 2018 A court may refuse to compel arbitration when: an arbitration agreement is based on a contract between a state- or federally chartered bank and a consumer; and the contract was...
Residential landlords required to disclose flood hazard information
New flood hazard disclosures need to be included in residential lease agreements.
CID owners entitled to peaceful assembly
Calif. Civil Code §4515 Added by S.B. 407 Effective date: January 1, 2018. A residential common interest development (CID) may not prohibit individual owners from: peacefully assembling during reasonable hours for purposes related to CID living, homeowners’...
Updates to housing development review standards
Calif. Government Code §65589.5 Amended by A.B. 678 Effective date: January 1, 2018 To be deemed a housing development project, a mixed-use development needs to dedicate at least two-thirds of the square footage for residential use. When a local government rejects any...
Housing for a Healthy California program established to alleviate homelessness
The inception of a program to create supportive housing for homeless populations in California.
Errata & Updates
Chapter 2: The MLS environment. The updated statutory Agency Law Disclosure
and confirmation provision went into effect the beginning of 2019. Both the
content of the form and when it is to be used have been modified. For a
thorough analysis of the new disclosure and confirmation practices, see the
January 2019 article, What you need to know about the refreshed – and mostly
improved – Agency Law Disclosure.
Chapter 32: The breaching buyer’s responsibilities. The first subhead on page
350 should read “Interest depends on property use.”