By Brittney Sherman
Signed by Governor Newsom on September 24th, 2024, Assembly Bill 3035 expands upon the 2019 Employee Housing Act in two major ways. The first is by expanding the geographic footprint of eligible developments to land in Santa Clara or Santa Cruz County within 15 miles of an area designated by the Department of Conservation as farmland or grazing and which is not connected or adjacent to a site allocated for more than 1/3 industrial use. The second is by increasing the maximum number of units from 36 to 150 for eligible agricultural employee housing developments within the expanded geographic location. AB 3035 will go into effect in 2025 with the aim of streamlining larger farmworker housing developments over a larger geographical boundary.
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