An agency is required to approve or disapprove such a project within 60 days after the combined EIR-EIS has been completed and adopted. The new law amends Section 65951 to eliminate any waiver of this time limit and increases the period for approving or disapproving the project from 60 to 90 days. Under current Section 65957, an agency and a project applicant can mutually agree to waive or extend by 90 days certain specified time periods. SB2005 amends this section to provide instead that the parties may mutually agree in writing to one 90-day extension. No other extension, continuance or waiver is permitted.
Housing is one of the mandatory elements of a city or county's general plan.
The Subdivision Map Act requires the legislative body of a local agency to approve or disapprove a final map at the meeting at which it receives the map or at its next regular meeting. SB1660 will authorize the legislative body to provide, by ordinance, for approval or disapproval final maps by the city or county engineer, surveyor or other designated official. The legislative body must also provide that the designated official may accept or reject dedications and offers of dedication by a statement on the map. As part of the 1998 Housing and Land Use Omnibus Act, the Legislature clarified a procedure for actions to challenge a zoning ordinance's conformity with the general plan. Present law requires that an action to challenge the zoning ordinance must be commenced within 90 days of enactment or amendment of the ordinance, but does not specify the time within which the action must be served on the legislative body.