California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California SB1090: Planning and zoning: housing development projects: urban lot splits: subdivisions: 2025 Eaton Wildfire: Altadena.
Status: Chaptered, September 30, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend, repeal, and add Sections 65852.28 and 66499.41 of the Government Code, relating to land use, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. land use, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately Planning and zoning: housing development projects: urban lot splits: subdivisions: 2025 Eaton Wildfire: Altadena. Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a county or city may adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land, as provided…
From the chaptered text, September 30, 2026:
An act to amend, repeal, and add Sections 65852.28 and 66499.41 of the Government Code, relating to land use, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. land use, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately Planning and zoning: housing development projects: urban lot splits: subdivisions: 2025 Eaton Wildfire: Altadena. Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a county or city may adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land, as provided. 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. Existing law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a housing development project on a subdivided lot, as specified, that meets specified requirements, and requires a local agency to ministerially consider that application, as specified. Existing law 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 specified requirements. This bill would, until January 1, 2030, provide that the above-described ministerial approval requirements do not apply to an …