California Government Code ARTICLE 2 - Adoption of Regulations

• Section 65850.
  The legislative body of any county or city may, pursuant to this chapter, adopt ordinances that do any of the following:(a) Regulate the use of buildings,...
• Section 65850.01.
  (a) The Department of Housing and Community Development, hereafter referred to as “the department” in this section, shall have the authority to review an ordinance adopted...
• Section 65850.1.
  (a) The legislative body of any city or county may adopt an ordinance or other regulation governing the issuance of permits to engage in the use...
• Section 65850.2.
  (a) Each city and each county shall include, in its information list compiled pursuant to Section 65940 for development projects, or application form for projects that...
• Section 65850.3.
  Any ordinance adopted by the legislative body of a city or county that regulates amateur radio station antenna structures shall allow those structures to be...
• Section 65850.4.
  (a) The legislative body of any county or city may regulate, pursuant to a content neutral ordinance, the time, place, and manner of operation of sexually...
• Section 65850.5.
  (a) The implementation of consistent statewide standards to achieve the timely and cost-effective installation of solar energy systems is not a municipal affair, as that term...
• Section 65850.55.
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that oversight of permitting fees for solar energy systems is a matter of statewide concern and not a municipal affair,...
• Section 65850.6.
  (a) A colocation facility shall be a permitted use not subject to a city or county discretionary permit if it satisfies the following requirements:(1) The colocation facility...
• Section 65850.7.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The implementation of consistent statewide standards to achieve the timely and cost-effective installation of electric vehicle charging...
• Section 65850.8.
  (a) (1) On or before September 30, 2018, every city, including a charter city, county, or city and county with a population of 200,000 or more residents,...
• Section 65851.
  For such purposes the legislative body may divide a county, a city, or portions thereof, into zones of the number, shape and area it deems...
• Section 65852.
  All such regulations shall be uniform for each class or kind of building or use of land throughout each zone, but the regulation in one...
• Section 65852.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 65906, any city, including a charter city, county, or city and county may issue a zoning variance, special use permit, or conditional use...
• Section 65852.150.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) Accessory dwelling units are a valuable form of housing in California.(2) Accessory dwelling units provide housing for family...
• Section 65852.2.
  (a) (1) A local agency may, by ordinance, provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned to allow single-family or multifamily use. The ordinance...
• Section 65852.22.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 65852.2, a local agency may, by ordinance, provide for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units in single-family residential zones. The ordinance may...
• Section 65852.25.
  (a) No local agency shall enact or enforce any ordinance, regulation, or resolution that would prohibit the reconstruction, restoration, or rebuilding of a multifamily dwelling that...
• Section 65852.3.
  (a) A city, including a charter city, county, or city and county, shall allow the installation of manufactured homes certified under the National Manufactured Housing Construction...
• Section 65852.35.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, all state and local programs designed to facilitate home ownership or residence, including loan origination and repayment programs, downpayment assistance, and...
• Section 65852.4.
  A city, including a charter city, a county, or a city and county, shall not subject an application to locate or install a manufactured home...
• Section 65852.5.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 65852.3, no city, including a charter city, county, or city and county, may impose size requirements for a roof overhang...
• Section 65852.6.
  (a) It is the policy of the state to permit breeding and the maintaining of homing pigeons consistent with the preservation of public health and safety....
• Section 65852.7.
  A mobilehome park, as defined in Section 18214 of the Health and Safety Code, shall be deemed a permitted land use on all land planned...
• Section 65852.9.
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that unused schoolsites represent a potentially major source of revenue for school districts and that current law reserves a percentage of unused...
• Section 65852.11.
  (a) No city or county, including a charter city, county, or city and county, which has adopted or enacted a local rent control ordinance for mobilehome...
• Section 65853.
  A zoning ordinance or an amendment to a zoning ordinance, which amendment changes any property from one zone to another or imposes any regulation listed...
• Section 65854.
  The planning commission shall hold a public hearing on the proposed zoning ordinance or amendment to a zoning ordinance. Notice of the hearing shall be...
• Section 65855.
  After the hearing, the planning commission shall render its decision in the form of a written recommendation to the legislative body. Such recommendation shall include...
• Section 65856.
  (a) Upon receipt of the recommendation of the planning commission, the legislative body shall hold a public hearing. However, if the matter under consideration is an...
• Section 65857.
  The legislative body may approve, modify or disapprove the recommendation of the planning commission; provided that any modification of the proposed ordinance or amendment by...
• Section 65858.
  (a) Without following the procedures otherwise required prior to the adoption of a zoning ordinance, the legislative body of a county, city, including a charter city,...
• Section 65859.
  (a) A city may, pursuant to this chapter, prezone unincorporated territory to determine the zoning that will apply to that territory upon annexation to the city.The...
• Section 65860.
  (a) County or city zoning ordinances shall be consistent with the general plan of the county or city by January 1, 1974. A zoning ordinance shall...
• Section 65860.1.
  (a) Not more than 12 months after the amendment of its general plan pursuant to Section 65302.9, each city and county within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley...
• Section 65861.
  When there is no planning commission, the legislative body of the city or county shall do all things required or authorized by this chapter of...
• Section 65862.
  When inconsistency between the general plan and zoning arises as a result of adoption of or amendment to a general plan, or any element thereof,...
• Section 65863.
  (a) Each city, county, or city and county shall ensure that its housing element inventory described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 65583 or...
• Section 65863.4.
  (a) Prior to noticing a public hearing on a proposed zoning ordinance or amendment to a zoning ordinance reducing the density permitted on property authorized for...
• Section 65863.5.
  Whenever the zoning covering a property is changed from one zone to another or a zoning variance or conditional use permit is granted with respect...
• Section 65863.6.
  In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, each county and city shall consider the efffect of ordinances adopted pursuant to this chapter on the...
• Section 65863.7.
  (a) Prior to the conversion of a mobilehome park to another use, except pursuant to the Subdivision Map Act (Division 2 (commencing with Section 66410) of...
• Section 65863.8.
  A local agency to which application has been made for the conversion of a mobilehome park to another use shall, at least 30 days prior...
• Section 65863.9.
  Unless an earlier expiration appears on the face of the permit, any permit which is issued by a local agency in conjunction with a tentative...
• Section 65863.10.
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Affected public entities” means the mayor of the city in which the assisted housing...
• Section 65863.11.
  (a) Terms used in this section shall be defined as follows:(1) “Assisted housing development” and “development” mean a multifamily rental housing development of five or more units...
• Section 65863.12.
  (a) Prior to the conversion of a floating home marina to another use, except pursuant to the Subdivision Map Act (Division 2 (commencing with Section 66410)...
• Section 65863.13.
  (a)  An owner shall not be required to provide a notice as required by Section 65863.10 or 65863.11 if all of the following conditions are...

Last modified: October 22, 2018