| (June 6, 2021, 6:40 p.m.) -- Without opposition by the City of Long Beach (via city staff or City Council action), a Sacramento bill -- AB 1401 -- that would prevent cities from requiring or enforcing minimum parking requirements for residential, commercial or other developments within a half mile walking distance of public transit has passed the Assembly.
AB 1401 specifies:
[AB 1401 current text] 65863.3. (a) A local government shall not impose a minimum automobile parking requirement, or enforce a minimum automobile parking requirement, on residential, commercial, or other development if the parcel is located within one-half mile walking distance of public transit.
(b) When a project provides parking voluntarily, nothing in this section shall preclude a local government from imposing requirements on that voluntary parking to require spaces for car share vehicles.
(c) Subdivision (a) shall not reduce, eliminate, or preclude the enforcement of any requirement imposed on a new multifamily residential or nonresidential development to provide electric vehicle parking spaces or parking spaces that are accessible to persons with disabilities that would have otherwise applied to the development if this section did not apply.
(d) For purposes of this section, “public transit” means either of the following:
(1) A high-quality transit corridor as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 21155 of the Public Resources Code.
[LBREPORT.com note: Public Resources Code 21155: "...For purposes of this section, a high-quality transit corridor means a corridor with fixed route bus service with service intervals no longer than 15 minutes during peak commute hours. A project shall be considered to be within one-half mile of a major transit stop or high-quality transit corridor if all parcels within the project have no more than 25 percent of their area farther than one-half mile from the stop or corridor and if not more than 10 percent of the residential units or 100 units, whichever is less, in the project are farther than one-half mile from the stop or corridor."
(2) A major transit stop as defined in Section 21064.3 of the Public Resources Code.
[LBREPORT.com note: Public Resources Code 21064.3: "...For purposes of this section, a high-quality transit corridor means a corridor with fixed route bus service with service intervals no longer than 15 minutes during peak commute hours. A project shall be considered to be within one-half mile of a major transit stop or high-quality transit corridor if all parcels within the project have no more than 25 percent of their area farther than one-half mile from the stop or corridor and if not more than 10 percent of the residential units or 100 units, whichever is less, in the project are farther than one-half mile from the stop or corridor."
(e) The Legislature finds and declares that this section addresses a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair as that term is used in Section 5 of Article XI of the California Constitution. Therefore, this section applies to all cities, including charter cities.
In a June 1 Assembly floor vote, Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell (D, LB) voted "no;" Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D, NLB/Paramount) voted "yes," Assemblyman Mike Gipson (D, NLB/Carson) was "no vote recorded." The full tally was 51-17 (with 11 "no vote recorded.")
Ayes: Aguiar-Curry, Arambula, Bennett, Berman, Bloom, Bryan, Burke, Calderon, Carrillo, Cervantes, Chau, Chen, Chiu, Cunningham, Daly, Fong, Friedman, Gabriel, Gallagher, Eduardo Garcia, Lorena Gonzalez, Gray, Grayson, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Kiley, Lackey, Lee, Low, McCarty, Medina, Mullin, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Rodriguez, Blanca Rubio, Salas, Stone, Ting, Villapudua, Voepel, Ward, Akilah Weber, Wicks, Wood, Rendon
Noes: Bigelow, Boerner Horvath, Choi, Megan Dahle, Davies, Flora, Irwin, Levine, Mathis, Muratsuchi, Nguyen, O'Donnell, Petrie-Norris, Seyarto, Smith, Valladares, Waldron
NVR: Bauer-Kahan, Cooley, Cooper, Frazier, Cristina Garcia, Gipson, Maienschein, Mayes, Nazarian, Patterson, Santiago
AB 1401 now awaits committee hearings in the state Senate.
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