AB 2894

Bill Subjects

Abstract

The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. That law requires the general plan to include several elements, including, among others, a land use element that designates the proposed general distribution, general location, and extent of the uses of the land for housing, business, industry, open space, and other categories of public and private uses of land. This bill would require, upon the next revision of the land use element on or after January 1, 2022, the land use to be revised and updated to address the need for early childhood facilities. The bill would require the update and revision to include, among other things, information regarding the location and capacity of existing early childhood education facilities and the barriers to locating and increasing the capacity of existing and any needed future early childhood education facilities. The bill would require the element include a set of goals, policies, and objectives based on that information and a set of feasible implementation measures designed to carry out those goals, policies, and objectives. By adding to the duties of county and city officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would require the Office of Planning and Research to, by January 1, 2022, prepare and make available advisory guidelines regarding planning for early childhood education facilities. The bill would require the guidelines to include, among other things, existing examples of best practices for the location and capacity of early childhood education facilities and identification of existing sources of data and other information about assessing the need for early childhood education facilities. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.