MEETING DATE:
APRIL 22, 2025
SUBJECT:
Title
RESOLUTION NO. 2025-9428 - LEGISLATIVE REPORT
Body
Recommendation
Recommendation
ADOPT a resolution taking a position on pending legislation in the California State Legislature and projects of local impacts.
Body
Relevant Council Strategic Theme
Planning for the Future
Good Governance
Introduction
The City Council adopted the 2025 Legislative Platform to guide the consideration of state and federal bills that affect City operations. Over 2,300 bills were introduced. May 2, 2025, is the deadline for bills to be moved out of policy committee. Staff, lobbyist consultants and Cal Cities are currently reviewing all the legislation that has been introduced or amended in this session.
Discussion
This report provides updates on legislation introduced in the 2025 legislative session. Staff will continue to monitor these bills, and others and will collaborate with Cal Cities and our lobbyist teams on future City Council consideration for official positions on introduced legislation. Policy committees have set hearings, and in the coming weeks will complete their review of all introduced bills.
The League of California Cities has sponsored 15 bills in this legislative cycle. Staff are reviewing these bills and are developing recommendations for which bills to present to Council for positions or letters of support. There are several bills that have connections to the City's 2025 Legislative Platform and could be places where the city can support Cal Cities legislative agenda. Staff continue to review these bills and will make recommendations at a future City Council meeting.
On April 3, 2025, Cal Cities took an official position of OPPOSE on SB 79 (Wiener) Transit-oriented Development. SB 79 overrides the state's own mandated local housing elements by forcing cities to approve transit-oriented development projects near specified transit stops - up to seven stories high and a density of 120 homes per acre - withou...
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