Red Alert: SUPPORT SENATE Bill 1117
Red Alert: SUPPORT SENATE Bill 1117
Take Immediate Action – Call and Email Today!
Call and/or email your representative in the State Senate and urge them to VOTE YES ON SENATE BILL 1117! Do it today!
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) have been a relatively new and an important source of affordable housing throughout California. Not only do ADUs help to reduce California’s housing shortage by adding housing within existing residential communities, ADUs also provides property owners with opportunities to increase income.
However, high development costs continue to be a major barrier to ADU construction statewide – Senate Bill 1117 helps to alleviate that financial strain. Under current state law, impact fees cannot be charged on ADU’s that have 750 square feet or less livable space. For ADUs larger than 750 square feet, fees must be proportional to the main dwelling's size. But, Senate Bill 1117 would assess impact fees on the portion of the ADU constructed more than 750 square feet of living space and completely change how local agencies calculate these fees. Senate Bill 1117, in other words, reduces the costs of construction.
When You Call or Email Your Legislator – Here’s What to Say:
We encourage you to share your personal story and these key concerns with your legislator(s) either via phone or email…or both:
- Senate Bill 1117 (S.B. 1117) provides a practical and targeted fee reform by clarifying that impact fees may only be applied to the portion of an ADU exceeding 750 square feet. This ensures that fees are proportional and prevent unnecessary costs that often lead to discouraging ADU development projects. S.B. 1117 creates a state-mandated local program and supports a statewide initiative of creating more housing through the construction of ADUs.
- Reducing regulatory and financial barriers to housing production is critical to addressing California’s housing shortage. By lowering unnecessary development costs, S.B. 1117 will help encourage construction of additional housing units across the state while supporting property owners seeking to expand housing opportunities on existing residential properties.
Here’s How to Contact Your State Senator:
- Click here to enter your address and find your California State Senate representative: https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
- Please call the Capitol Office phone number or send an email and urge your State Senate representative to vote YES on S.B. 1117.
Every call and/or email counts. Please contact legislators today and share this message!
Want to Help More?
If you are growing sick and tired of seemingly constant attacks on your investment(s) in rental property and the barrage of potentially harmful regulations, and want to help us encourage regulations that are beneficial to housing providers, then please help us. Help us to influence and elect public officials who are sympathetic to the needs of rental housing providers and who will help ensure we have only fair and balanced regulations in the future. Give us the resources we need to fight back and win! Go to: www.aagla.org/candidatespac today and make your contribution.
Go to: www.aagla.org/candidatespac today and make your contribution.