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SB-834 Vehicles: preferential parking: residential, commercial, or other development project.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 22507.3 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:

22507.3.
 (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 22507, a local authority is prohibited from issuing any permit or permits conferring preferential parking privileges to any residents or vendors of any developments within one-half mile of public transit and exempt from parking minimums pursuant to Section 65863.2 of the Government Code, or subject to parking minimum restrictions based on any other applicable law. The local authority shall revise the boundaries of any such preferential parking district to exclude such development from the boundaries.
(b) The Legislature finds and declares that providing parking to residents of transit priority developments in the form of parking privileges is providing parking, which encourages car use and undermines the Legislature’s intent to discourage car use by incentivizing development near public transit. This section shall be interpreted in favor of the prohibition of preferential parking privileges for occupants of development projects within one-half mile of public transit that are exempt from parking minimums pursuant to Section 65863.2 of the Government Code, or subject to parking minimum reductions based on any other applicable law.
(c) The Legislature finds that reducing greenhouse gases and dependence on car use is a matter of statewide concern and is not 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.
SEC. 2.
 No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code.