SB 715: Elections.

The bill aims to amend the housing element requirements for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the planning and zoning law. It would remove the requirement to consider the loss of units factor when distributing regional housing needs and instead require the lost units to be distributed proportionally according to the region's proposed methodology. The bill would impose additional duties on councils of governments and require them to develop a proposed methodology for distributing regional housing needs. It would also prohibit the lost units from solely being distributed to the jurisdictions in which they were lost. The bill would require the department or entities delegated to allocate the units lost in a state of emergency based on the allocation methodology. The department would also need to provide data describing the assumptions and methodology used in calculating the regional hous…