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California Code, Government Code - GOV § 65890.5

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The guidebook shall include the following:

(1) Methodologies for measuring the balance of jobs and housing.

(2) Methodologies for analysis of the projected needed housing supply to serve projected employment growth.

(3) Methodologies to encourage the balance of jobs and housing.

(4) Incentives which local, regional, and state agencies may offer to the private sector to encourage developments and design which will facilitate an improved balance between employment generating land use and residential land use.

(5) Methodologies cities and counties may use to analyze trip generation and vehicle miles traveled to and from employment centers.

(6) Methodologies cities and counties may use to achieve more efficient use of transportation facilities serving major employment centers.

(7) Descriptions of successful and unsuccessful efforts by cities or counties to move toward improved jobs-housing balance.

(b) The guidebook shall seek to describe and evaluate the various tools available to local, regional, and state governments to measure, evaluate, and improve the balance of jobs and housing and to mitigate the undesirable effects of any imbalance between jobs and housing.  The guidebook shall describe efforts by cities, counties, and regional agencies to improve the balance of jobs and housing.

(c) The department shall consult with interested parties and organizations such as academic institutions, environmental groups, businesses, labor unions, real estate groups, housing advocacy groups, cities, counties, and regional agencies.  The final guidebook shall be completed no later than December 31, 1993.

(d) Within two years of final publication of the guidebook, the Assembly Office of Research shall complete a study of the effectiveness of the guidebook as a decisionmaking tool by public agencies and the private sector to facilitate improved jobs-housing balance.  The study shall include the office's recommendations for legislation needed to improve the effectiveness of decisionmaking as it relates to achieving jobs-housing balance, if any.

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