California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB1751: Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act.
Status: Chaptered, September 29, 2026
What the bill says
An act to add Section 65852.30 to, and to add Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 66499.45) to Division 2 of Title 7 of, the Government Code, relating to housing. housing Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act. Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, contains various provisions requiring a local government that receives an application for certain types of qualified housing developments to review the application under a streamlined, ministerial approval process, depending on the type of housing development, as specified…
From the chaptered text, September 29, 2026:
An act to add Section 65852.30 to, and to add Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 66499.45) to Division 2 of Title 7 of, the Government Code, relating to housing. housing Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act. Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, contains various provisions requiring a local government that receives an application for certain types of qualified housing developments to review the application under a streamlined, ministerial approval process, depending on the type of housing development, as specified. Existing law, the Subdivision Map Act, vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps, and the modification thereof. The act generally requires a subdivider to file a tentative map or vesting tentative map with the local agency, as specified, and the local agency, in turn, to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map within a specified time period. Existing law, known as the Starter Home Revitalization Act of 2021, among other things, requires a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets certain requirements, including that the …