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Ordinance amending Title 20 (Zoning) of the South San Francisco Municipal Code pertaining to accessory dwelling units.
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WHEREAS, in 2016, 2018, and 2019, the California legislature amended California Government Code section 65852.2 and 65852.22 outlining the standards by which local jurisdictions must approve and regulate the development of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units (JADU), the purpose of which is to reduce governmental barriers and to increase the supply of smaller and affordable housing; and
WHEREAS, in 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 881 (Bloom, Chapter 659, Statutes of 2019), Assembly Bill 68 (Ting, Chapter 655, Statutes of 2019) and Senate Bill 13 (Wieckowski, Chapter 653, Statutes of 2019), which all became effective on January 1, 2020; and
WHEREAS, among other requirements, these new bills amended Government Code sections 65852.2 and 65852.22 and require cities to further relax their regulation of ADUs and JADUs by facilitating the conversion of existing buildings into ADUs; reducing, and in some cases removing altogether, the parking requirements for ADUs and JADUs; requiring cities to permit multiple ADUs on most or all lots containing multifamily dwellings, to permit up to two ADUs on most or all lots containing existing single family dwellings, to permit JADUs on most or all lots containing single-family dwellings; and generally prohibiting the imposition of a connection fee or capacity charge for utilities serving the ADU and JADUs; and
WHEREAS, Government Code Section 65852.2(a)(4), as amended, provides that any existing local ADU ordinance failing to meet the requirements of the new state law shall be null and void unless and until the local agency adopts a new ordinance complying with California Government Code Section 65852.2; and
WHEREAS, in the absence of a valid local ordinance, the new state law instead provides a set of default standards governing local ag...
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