Senate Bill (SB) 684 Permit
Background
Senate Bill 684 (SB 684) went into effect on July 1, 2024. The bill adds Government Code sections 65852.28, 65913.4.5, and 66499.41 to California State law, which require local jurisdictions to provide a ministerial review process for subdivision and housing developments on multifamily lots that meet the law's eligibility requirements. Senate Bill 1123 expands SB 684 to allow the bill to be used on qualifying vacant parcels in single-family zones and went into effect on July 1, 2025. SB 684, as amended by SB 1123 (2024), 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 as long as the proposed subdivision will result in 10 or fewer parcels and the housing development project on the lot proposed to be subdivided will contain 10 or fewer residential units. The bill disallows discretionary review for housing development projects and subdivisions that meet certain criteria.
A local ordinance to adopt and implement SB 684 is not required and has not been adopted. Instead, the City of Lafayette is implementing state law directly and will use local forms to collect information from applicants for review. The bill's full text can be found on the California Legislative Information website.