Senate Bill No.

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Passed the Senate September 9, 2011

Secretary of the Senate

Passed the Assembly September 9, 2011

Chief Clerk of the Assembly

This bill was received by the Governor this of , 2011, at oclock m.

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CHAPTER An act to amend Sections 56375, 56425, and 56430 of, and to add Sections 53082.5, 56033.5, and 65302.10 to, the Government Code, and to add Section 13481.7 to the Water Code, relating to local government.
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SB 244, Wolk. Local government: land use: general plan: disadvantaged unincorporated communities. (1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the city or county and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. That law also requires the general plan to contain specied mandatory elements, including a housing element for the preservation, improvement, and development of the communitys housing. This bill would require, on or before the next adoption of its housing element, a city or county to review and update the land use element of its general plan to include an analysis of the presence of island, fringe, or legacy unincorporated communities, as dened, and would require the updated general plan to include specied information. This bill would also require the city or county planning agency, after the initial revision and update of the general plan, to review, and if necessary amend, the general plan to update the information, goals, and program of action relating to these communities therein. By adding to the duties of city and county ofcials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Act of 2000 requires a local agency formation commission to develop and determine the sphere of inuence of each local governmental agency within the county and to enact policies designed to promote the logical and orderly development of areas within the sphere, and requires the commission, in preparing and updating spheres of inuence to conduct a service review of the municipal services provided in the county or other area designated by the commission, and to prepare a written statement of its determinations with respect to the growth

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and population projections for the affected area, the present and planned capacity of public facilities and adequacy of public services, including infrastructure needs or deciencies, nancial ability of agencies to provide services, status of, and opportunities for, shared facilities, accountability for community service needs, including governmental structure, and operational efciencies, as specied. This bill would also require the agency to include in its written statement a determination with respect to the location and characteristics and the present and planned capacity of public facilities and adequacy of public services, including sewers, water, and structural re protection needs or deciencies, of any disadvantaged unincorporated communities within or adjacent to the sphere of inuence, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would also require a commission, upon the review and update of a sphere of inuence on or after July 1, 2012, to include in the review or update of each sphere of inuence of a city or special district that provides public facilities or services related to sewers, municipal and industrial water, or structural re protection to include the present and probable need for public facilities and services of disadvantaged unincorporated communities within or adjacent to the sphere of inuence, and would authorize the agency to assess the feasibility of governmental reorganization of particular agencies, as specied. (3) Existing law generally grants various powers to cities, counties, and certain special districts, including the power to issue bonds and incur indebtedness for certain purposes and subject to certain restrictions. Existing law continuously appropriates state and federal funds in the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund to the State Water Resources Control Board for loans and other nancial assistance for the construction of publicly owned treatment works and other related purposes, to a municipality, intermunicipal agency, interstate agency, or state agency in accordance with the federal Clean Water Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. This bill would authorize those public agencies, including counties, cities, and special districts, subject to applicable constitutional restrictions, to borrow money and incur indebtedness for purposes of the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund.
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(4) This bill would incorporate changes to Sections 56375 and 56430 of the Government Code proposed by this bill and AB 54, to be operative if both bills are enacted and become operative as specied. (5) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specied reason. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature nds and declares all of the following: (1) Hundreds of disadvantaged unincorporated communities, commonly referred to as colonias, exist in California. There are more than 200 of these communities in the San Joaquin Valley alone. Many of these communities are geographically isolated islands, surrounded by the city limits of large and medium-sized cities. (2) Conditions within these disadvantaged unincorporated communities evidence a distinct lack of public and private investment that threatens the health and safety of the residents of these communities and fosters economic, social, and educational inequality. Many of these communities lack basic infrastructure, including, but not limited to, streets, sidewalks, storm drainage, clean drinking water, and adequate sewer service. (3) The Clean Water State Revolving Fund, the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, and the Community Development Block Grant are robust and continuous sources of funding for drinking water, wastewater, and other basic infrastructure. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage investment in these communities and address the complex legal, nancial, and political barriers that contribute to regional inequity and infrastructure decits within disadvantaged unincorporated communities. SEC. 2. Section 53082.5 is added to the Government Code, to read:

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53082.5. Subject to all applicable constitutional restrictions, a county, a city, or a special district that provides, or intends to provide, wastewater treatment facilities or services may borrow money and incur indebtedness pursuant to Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 13475) of Division 7 of the Water Code. SEC. 3. Section 56033.5 is added to the Government Code, to read: 56033.5. Disadvantaged unincorporated community means inhabited territory, as dened by Section 56046, or as determined by commission policy, that constitutes all or a portion of a disadvantaged community as dened by Section 79505.5 of the Water Code. SEC. 4. Section 56375 of the Government Code is amended to read: 56375. The commission shall have all of the following powers and duties subject to any limitations upon its jurisdiction set forth in this part: (a) (1) To review and approve with or without amendment, wholly, partially, or conditionally, or disapprove proposals for changes of organization or reorganization, consistent with written policies, procedures, and guidelines adopted by the commission. (2) The commission may initiate proposals by resolution of application for any of the following: (A) The consolidation of a district, as dened in Section 56036. (B) The dissolution of a district. (C) A merger. (D) The establishment of a subsidiary district. (E) The formation of a new district or districts. (F) A reorganization that includes any of the changes specied in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E). (3) A commission may initiate a proposal described in paragraph (2) only if that change of organization or reorganization is consistent with a recommendation or conclusion of a study prepared pursuant to Section 56378, 56425, or 56430, and the commission makes the determinations specied in subdivision (b) of Section 56881. (4) A commission shall not disapprove an annexation to a city, initiated by resolution, of contiguous territory that the commission nds is any of the following:
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(A) Surrounded or substantially surrounded by the city to which the annexation is proposed or by that city and a county boundary or the Pacic Ocean if the territory to be annexed is substantially developed or developing, is not prime agricultural land as dened in Section 56064, is designated for urban growth by the general plan of the annexing city, and is not within the sphere of inuence of another city. (B) Located within an urban service area that has been delineated and adopted by a commission, which is not prime agricultural land, as dened by Section 56064, and is designated for urban growth by the general plan of the annexing city. (C) An annexation or reorganization of unincorporated islands meeting the requirements of Section 56375.3. (5) As a condition to the annexation of an area that is surrounded, or substantially surrounded, by the city to which the annexation is proposed, the commission may require, where consistent with the purposes of this division, that the annexation include the entire island of surrounded, or substantially surrounded, territory. (6) A commission shall not impose any conditions that would directly regulate land use density or intensity, property development, or subdivision requirements. (7) The decision of the commission with regard to a proposal to annex territory to a city shall be based upon the general plan and prezoning of the city. When the development purposes are not made known to the annexing city, the annexation shall be reviewed on the basis of the adopted plans and policies of the annexing city or county. A commission shall require, as a condition to annexation, that a city prezone the territory to be annexed or present evidence satisfactory to the commission that the existing development entitlements on the territory are vested or are already at build-out, and are consistent with the citys general plan. However, the commission shall not specify how, or in what manner, the territory shall be prezoned. (8) (A) Except for those changes of organization or reorganization authorized under Section 56375.3, and except as provided by subparagraph (B), a commission shall not approve an annexation to a city of any territory greater than 10 acres, or as determined by commission policy, where there exists a disadvantaged unincorporated community that is contiguous to
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the area of proposed annexation, unless an application to annex the disadvantaged unincorporated community to the subject city has been led with the executive ofcer. (B) An application to annex a contiguous disadvantaged community shall not be required if either of the following apply: (i) A prior application for annexation of the same disadvantaged community has been made in the preceding ve years. (ii) The commission nds, based upon written evidence, that a majority of the residents within the affected territory are opposed to annexation. (b) With regard to a proposal for annexation or detachment of territory to, or from, a city or district or with regard to a proposal for reorganization that includes annexation or detachment, to determine whether territory proposed for annexation or detachment, as described in its resolution approving the annexation, detachment, or reorganization, is inhabited or uninhabited. (c) With regard to a proposal for consolidation of two or more cities or districts, to determine which city or district shall be the consolidated successor city or district. (d) To approve the annexation of unincorporated, noncontiguous territory, subject to the limitations of Section 56742, located in the same county as that in which the city is located, and that is owned by a city and used for municipal purposes and to authorize the annexation of the territory without notice and hearing. (e) To approve the annexation of unincorporated territory consistent with the planned and probable use of the property based upon the review of general plan and prezoning designations. No subsequent change may be made to the general plan for the annexed territory or zoning that is not in conformance to the prezoning designations for a period of two years after the completion of the annexation, unless the legislative body for the city makes a nding at a public hearing that a substantial change has occurred in circumstances that necessitate a departure from the prezoning in the application to the commission. (f) With respect to the incorporation of a new city or the formation of a new special district, to determine the number of registered voters residing within the proposed city or special district or, for a landowner-voter special district, the number of owners of land and the assessed value of their land within the territory proposed to be included in the new special district. The number
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of registered voters shall be calculated as of the time of the last report of voter registration by the county elections ofcial to the Secretary of State prior to the date the rst signature was afxed to the petition. The executive ofcer shall notify the petitioners of the number of registered voters resulting from this calculation. The assessed value of the land within the territory proposed to be included in a new landowner-voter special district shall be calculated as shown on the last equalized assessment roll. (g) To adopt written procedures for the evaluation of proposals, including written denitions consistent with existing state law. The commission may adopt standards for any of the factors enumerated in Section 56668. Any standards adopted by the commission shall be written. (h) To adopt standards and procedures for the evaluation of service plans submitted pursuant to Section 56653 and the initiation of a change of organization or reorganization pursuant to subdivision (a). (i) To make and enforce regulations for the orderly and fair conduct of hearings by the commission. (j) To incur usual and necessary expenses for the accomplishment of its functions. (k) To appoint and assign staff personnel and to employ or contract for professional or consulting services to carry out and effect the functions of the commission. (l) To review the boundaries of the territory involved in any proposal with respect to the deniteness and certainty of those boundaries, the nonconformance of proposed boundaries with lines of assessment or ownership, and other similar matters affecting the proposed boundaries. (m) To waive the restrictions of Section 56744 if it nds that the application of the restrictions would be detrimental to the orderly development of the community and that the area that would be enclosed by the annexation or incorporation is so located that it cannot reasonably be annexed to another city or incorporated as a new city. (n) To waive the application of Section 22613 of the Streets and Highways Code if it nds the application would deprive an area of a service needed to ensure the health, safety, or welfare of the residents of the area and if it nds that the waiver would not affect the ability of a city to provide any service. However, within 60
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days of the inclusion of the territory within the city, the legislative body may adopt a resolution nullifying the waiver. (o) If the proposal includes the incorporation of a city, as dened in Section 56043, or the formation of a district, as dened in Section 2215 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, the commission shall determine the property tax revenue to be exchanged by the affected local agencies pursuant to Section 56810. (p) To authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries pursuant to Section 56133. (q) To enter into an agreement with the commission for an adjoining county for the purpose of determining procedures for the consideration of proposals that may affect the adjoining county or where the jurisdiction of an affected agency crosses the boundary of the adjoining county. SEC. 4.5. Section 56375 of the Government Code is amended to read: 56375. The commission shall have all of the following powers and duties subject to any limitations upon its jurisdiction set forth in this part: (a) (1) To review and approve with or without amendment, wholly, partially, or conditionally, or disapprove proposals for changes of organization or reorganization, consistent with written policies, procedures, and guidelines adopted by the commission. (2) The commission may initiate proposals by resolution of application for any of the following: (A) The consolidation of a district, as dened in Section 56036. (B) The dissolution of a district. (C) A merger. (D) The establishment of a subsidiary district. (E) The formation of a new district or districts. (F) A reorganization that includes any of the changes specied in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E). (3) A commission may initiate a proposal described in paragraph (2) only if that change of organization or reorganization is consistent with a recommendation or conclusion of a study prepared pursuant to Section 56378, 56425, or 56430, and the commission makes the determinations specied in subdivision (b) of Section 56881.

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(4) A commission shall not disapprove an annexation to a city, initiated by resolution, of contiguous territory that the commission nds is any of the following: (A) Surrounded or substantially surrounded by the city to which the annexation is proposed or by that city and a county boundary or the Pacic Ocean if the territory to be annexed is substantially developed or developing, is not prime agricultural land as dened in Section 56064, is designated for urban growth by the general plan of the annexing city, and is not within the sphere of inuence of another city. (B) Located within an urban service area that has been delineated and adopted by a commission, which is not prime agricultural land, as dened by Section 56064, and is designated for urban growth by the general plan of the annexing city. (C) An annexation or reorganization of unincorporated islands meeting the requirements of Section 56375.3. (5) As a condition to the annexation of an area that is surrounded, or substantially surrounded, by the city to which the annexation is proposed, the commission may require, where consistent with the purposes of this division, that the annexation include the entire island of surrounded, or substantially surrounded, territory. (6) A commission shall not impose any conditions that would directly regulate land use density or intensity, property development, or subdivision requirements. (7) The decision of the commission with regard to a proposal to annex territory to a city shall be based upon the general plan and prezoning of the city. When the development purposes are not made known to the annexing city, the annexation shall be reviewed on the basis of the adopted plans and policies of the annexing city or county. A commission shall require, as a condition to annexation, that a city prezone the territory to be annexed or present evidence satisfactory to the commission that the existing development entitlements on the territory are vested or are already at build-out, and are consistent with the citys general plan. However, the commission shall not specify how, or in what manner, the territory shall be prezoned. (8) (A) Except for those changes of organization or reorganization authorized under Section 56375.3, and except as provided by subparagraph (B), a commission shall not approve an
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annexation to a city of any territory greater than 10 acres, or as determined by commission policy, where there exists a disadvantaged unincorporated community that is contiguous to the area of proposed annexation, unless an application to annex the disadvantaged unincorporated community to the subject city has been led with the executive ofcer. (B) An application to annex a contiguous disadvantaged community shall not be required if either of the following apply: (i) A prior application for annexation of the same disadvantaged community has been made in the preceding ve years. (ii) The commission nds, based upon written evidence, that a majority of the residents within the affected territory are opposed to annexation. (b) With regard to a proposal for annexation or detachment of territory to, or from, a city or district or with regard to a proposal for reorganization that includes annexation or detachment, to determine whether territory proposed for annexation or detachment, as described in its resolution approving the annexation, detachment, or reorganization, is inhabited or uninhabited. (c) With regard to a proposal for consolidation of two or more cities or districts, to determine which city or district shall be the consolidated successor city or district. (d) To approve the annexation of unincorporated, noncontiguous territory, subject to the limitations of Section 56742, located in the same county as that in which the city is located, and that is owned by a city and used for municipal purposes and to authorize the annexation of the territory without notice and hearing. (e) To approve the annexation of unincorporated territory consistent with the planned and probable use of the property based upon the review of general plan and prezoning designations. No subsequent change may be made to the general plan for the annexed territory or zoning that is not in conformance to the prezoning designations for a period of two years after the completion of the annexation, unless the legislative body for the city makes a nding at a public hearing that a substantial change has occurred in circumstances that necessitate a departure from the prezoning in the application to the commission. (f) With respect to the incorporation of a new city or the formation of a new special district, to determine the number of registered voters residing within the proposed city or special district
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or, for a landowner-voter special district, the number of owners of land and the assessed value of their land within the territory proposed to be included in the new special district. The number of registered voters shall be calculated as of the time of the last report of voter registration by the county elections ofcial to the Secretary of State prior to the date the rst signature was afxed to the petition. The executive ofcer shall notify the petitioners of the number of registered voters resulting from this calculation. The assessed value of the land within the territory proposed to be included in a new landowner-voter special district shall be calculated as shown on the last equalized assessment roll. (g) To adopt written procedures for the evaluation of proposals, including written denitions consistent with existing state law. The commission may adopt standards for any of the factors enumerated in Section 56668. Any standards adopted by the commission shall be written. (h) To adopt standards and procedures for the evaluation of service plans submitted pursuant to Section 56653 and the initiation of a change of organization or reorganization pursuant to subdivision (a). (i) To make and enforce regulations for the orderly and fair conduct of hearings by the commission. (j) To incur usual and necessary expenses for the accomplishment of its functions. (k) To appoint and assign staff personnel and to employ or contract for professional or consulting services to carry out and effect the functions of the commission. (l) To review the boundaries of the territory involved in any proposal with respect to the deniteness and certainty of those boundaries, the nonconformance of proposed boundaries with lines of assessment or ownership, and other similar matters affecting the proposed boundaries. (m) To waive the restrictions of Section 56744 if it nds that the application of the restrictions would be detrimental to the orderly development of the community and that the area that would be enclosed by the annexation or incorporation is so located that it cannot reasonably be annexed to another city or incorporated as a new city. (n) To waive the application of Section 22613 of the Streets and Highways Code if it nds the application would deprive an area
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of a service needed to ensure the health, safety, or welfare of the residents of the area and if it nds that the waiver would not affect the ability of a city to provide any service. However, within 60 days of the inclusion of the territory within the city, the legislative body may adopt a resolution nullifying the waiver. (o) If the proposal includes the incorporation of a city, as dened in Section 56043, or the formation of a district, as dened in Section 2215 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, the commission shall determine the property tax revenue to be exchanged by the affected local agencies pursuant to Section 56810. (p) To authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries pursuant to Section 56133. (q) To enter into an agreement with the commission for an adjoining county for the purpose of determining procedures for the consideration of proposals that may affect the adjoining county or where the jurisdiction of an affected agency crosses the boundary of the adjoining county. (r) To approve with or without amendment, wholly, partially, or conditionally, or disapprove pursuant to this section the annexation of territory served by a mutual water company formed pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 14300) of Division 3 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code that operates a public water system to a city or special district. Any annexation approved in accordance with this subdivision shall be subject to the state and federal constitutional prohibitions against the taking of private property without the payment of just compensation. This subdivision shall not impair the authority of a public agency or public utility to exercise eminent domain authority. SEC. 5. Section 56425 of the Government Code is amended to read: 56425. (a) In order to carry out its purposes and responsibilities for planning and shaping the logical and orderly development and coordination of local governmental agencies to advantageously provide for the present and future needs of the county and its communities, the commission shall develop and determine the sphere of inuence of each local governmental agency within the county and enact policies designed to promote the logical and orderly development of areas within the sphere.

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(b) Prior to a city submitting an application to the commission to update its sphere of inuence, representatives from the city and representatives from the county shall meet to discuss the proposed new boundaries of the sphere and explore methods to reach agreement on development standards and planning and zoning requirements within the sphere to ensure that development within the sphere occurs in a manner that reects the concerns of the affected city and is accomplished in a manner that promotes the logical and orderly development of areas within the sphere. If an agreement is reached between the city and county, the city shall forward the agreement in writing to the commission, along with the application to update the sphere of inuence. The commission shall consider and adopt a sphere of inuence for the city consistent with the policies adopted by the commission pursuant to this section, and the commission shall give great weight to the agreement to the extent that it is consistent with commission policies in its nal determination of the city sphere. (c) If the commissions nal determination is consistent with the agreement reached between the city and county pursuant to subdivision (b), the agreement shall be adopted by both the city and county after a noticed public hearing. Once the agreement has been adopted by the affected local agencies and their respective general plans reect that agreement, then any development approved by the county within the sphere shall be consistent with the terms of that agreement. (d) If no agreement is reached pursuant to subdivision (b), the application may be submitted to the commission and the commission shall consider a sphere of inuence for the city consistent with the policies adopted by the commission pursuant to this section. (e) In determining the sphere of inuence of each local agency, the commission shall consider and prepare a written statement of its determinations with respect to each of the following: (1) The present and planned land uses in the area, including agricultural and open-space lands. (2) The present and probable need for public facilities and services in the area. (3) The present capacity of public facilities and adequacy of public services that the agency provides or is authorized to provide.

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(4) The existence of any social or economic communities of interest in the area if the commission determines that they are relevant to the agency. (5) For an update of a sphere of inuence of a city or special district that provides public facilities or services related to sewers, municipal and industrial water, or structural re protection, that occurs pursuant to subdivision (g) on or after July 1, 2012, the present and probable need for those public facilities and services of any disadvantaged unincorporated communities within the existing sphere of inuence. (f) Upon determination of a sphere of inuence, the commission shall adopt that sphere. (g) On or before January 1, 2008, and every ve years thereafter, the commission shall, as necessary, review and update each sphere of inuence. (h) In determining a sphere of inuence, the commission may assess the feasibility of governmental reorganization of particular agencies and recommend reorganization of those agencies when reorganization is found to be feasible and if reorganization will further the goals of orderly development and efcient and affordable service delivery. The commission shall make all reasonable efforts to ensure wide public dissemination of the recommendations. (i) When adopting, amending, or updating a sphere of inuence for a special district, the commission shall do all of the following: (1) Require existing districts to le written statements with the commission specifying the functions or classes of services provided by those districts. (2) Establish the nature, location, and extent of any functions or classes of services provided by existing districts. SEC. 6. Section 56430 of the Government Code is amended to read: 56430. (a) In order to prepare and to update spheres of inuence in accordance with Section 56425, the commission shall conduct a service review of the municipal services provided in the county or other appropriate area designated by the commission. The commission shall include in the area designated for service review the county, the region, the subregion, or any other geographic area as is appropriate for an analysis of the service or

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services to be reviewed, and shall prepare a written statement of its determinations with respect to each of the following: (1) Growth and population projections for the affected area. (2) The location and characteristics of any disadvantaged unincorporated communities within or contiguous to the sphere of inuence. (3) Present and planned capacity of public facilities, adequacy of public services, and infrastructure needs or deciencies including needs or deciencies related to sewers, municipal and industrial water, and structural re protection in any disadvantaged unincorporated communities within or contiguous to the sphere of inuence. (4) Financial ability of agencies to provide services. (5) Status of, and opportunities for, shared facilities. (6) Accountability for community service needs, including governmental structure and operational efciencies. (7) Any other matter related to effective or efcient service delivery, as required by commission policy. (b) In conducting a service review, the commission shall comprehensively review all of the agencies that provide the identied service or services within the designated geographic area. The commission may assess various alternatives for improving efciency and affordability of infrastructure and service delivery within and contiguous to the sphere of inuence, including, but not limited to, the consolidation of governmental agencies. (c) The commission shall conduct a service review before, or in conjunction with, but no later than the time it is considering an action to establish a sphere of inuence in accordance with Section 56425 or Section 56426.5 or to update a sphere of inuence pursuant to Section 56425. SEC. 6.5. Section 56430 of the Government Code is amended to read: 56430. (a) In order to prepare and to update spheres of inuence in accordance with Section 56425, the commission shall conduct a service review of the municipal services provided in the county or other appropriate area designated by the commission. The commission shall include in the area designated for service review the county, the region, the subregion, or any other geographic area as is appropriate for an analysis of the service or
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services to be reviewed, and shall prepare a written statement of its determinations with respect to each of the following: (1) Growth and population projections for the affected area. (2) The location and characteristics of any disadvantaged unincorporated communities within or contiguous to the sphere of inuence. (3) Present and planned capacity of public facilities, adequacy of public services, and infrastructure needs or deciencies including needs or deciencies related to sewers, municipal and industrial water, and structural re protection in any disadvantaged, unincorporated communities within or contiguous to the sphere of inuence. (4) Financial ability of agencies to provide services. (5) Status of, and opportunities for, shared facilities. (6) Accountability for community service needs, including governmental structure and operational efciencies. (7) Any other matter related to effective or efcient service delivery, as required by commission policy. (b) In conducting a service review, the commission shall comprehensively review all of the agencies that provide the identied service or services within the designated geographic area. The commission may assess various alternatives for improving efciency and affordability of infrastructure and service delivery within and contiguous to the sphere of inuence, including, but not limited to, the consolidation of governmental agencies. (c) In conducting a service review, the commission may include a review of whether the agencies under review, including any public water system as dened in Section 116275, are in compliance with the California Safe Drinking Water Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 116270) of Part 12 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code). A public water system may satisfy any request for information as to compliance with that act by submission of the consumer condence or water quality report prepared by the public water system as provided by Section 116470 of the Health and Safety Code. (d) The commission may request information, as part of a service review under this section, from identied public or private entities that provide wholesale or retail supply of drinking water, including mutual water companies formed pursuant to Part 7 (commencing
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with Section 14300) of Division 3 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code, and private utilities, as dened in Section 1502 of the Public Utilities Code. (e) The commission shall conduct a service review before, or in conjunction with, but no later than the time it is considering an action to establish a sphere of inuence in accordance with Section 56425 or 56426.5 or to update a sphere of inuence pursuant to Section 56425. SEC. 7. Section 65302.10 is added to the Government Code, to read: 65302.10. (a) As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) Community means an inhabited area within a city or county that is comprised of no less than 10 dwellings adjacent or in close proximity to one another. (2) Disadvantaged unincorporated community means a fringe, island, or legacy community in which the median household income is 80 percent or less than the statewide median household income. (3) Unincorporated fringe community means any inhabited and unincorporated territory that is within a citys sphere of inuence. (4) Unincorporated island community means any inhabited and unincorporated territory that is surrounded or substantially surrounded by one or more cities or by one or more cities and a county boundary or the Pacic Ocean. (5) Unincorporated legacy community means a geographically isolated community that is inhabited and has existed for at least 50 years. (b) On or before the due date for the next adoption of its housing element pursuant to Section 65588, each city or county shall review and update the land use element of its general plan to include all of the following: (1) In the case of a city, an identication of each unincorporated island or fringe community within the citys sphere of inuence. In the case of a county, an identication of each legacy community within the boundaries of the county, but not including any area within the sphere of inuence of any city. This identication shall include a description of the community and a map designating its location.
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(2) For each identied community, an analysis of water, wastewater, stormwater drainage, and structural re protection needs or deciencies. (3) An analysis, based on then existing available data, of benet assessment districts or other nancing alternatives that could make the extension of services to identied communities nancially feasible. (c) On or before the due date for each subsequent revision of its housing element pursuant to Section 65588, each city and county shall review, and if necessary amend, its general plan to update the analysis required by this section. SEC. 8. Section 13481.7 is added to the Water Code, to read: 13481.7. Subject to all applicable constitutional restrictions, a municipality may borrow money and incur indebtedness pursuant to this chapter. SEC. 9. Section 4.5 of this bill incorporates amendments to Section 56375 of the Government Code proposed by both this bill and Assembly Bill 54. It shall only become operative if (1) both bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2012, (2) each bill amends Section 56375 of the Government Code, and (3) this bill is enacted after Assembly Bill 54, in which case Section 4 of this bill shall not become operative. SEC. 10. Section 6.5 of this bill incorporates amendments to Section 56430 of the Government Code proposed by both this bill and Assembly Bill 54. It shall only become operative if (1) both bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2012, (2) each bill amends Section 56430 of the Government Code, and (3) this bill is enacted after Assembly Bill 54, in which case Section 6 of this bill shall not become operative. SEC. 11. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufcient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code.

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