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This bill amends the Mitigation Fee Act to modify how local agencies calculate and impose traffic impact fees on housing developments. The bill updates the criteria for determining reduced traffic impact fees, specifically changing the parking space requirements and location-based characteristics. Under the new provisions, housing developments can qualify for lower traffic impact fees if they are located within a transit priority area and within half a mile of at least three specified locations like restaurants, supermarkets, drugstores, or parks (now also including childcare facilities). The parking requirements are modified to allow no more than one parking space for zero to two-bedroom units and two spaces for units with three or more bedrooms. Importantly, the bill requires that any local agency findings justifying standard traffic impact fees must be supported by substantial evidence in the project approval record. The bill also removes the previous option for local agencies to charge proportional fees for developments not meeting all characteristics and prohibits certain land dedication requirements for roadway widening related to traffic mitigation. Notably, the bill is structured to avoid requiring state reimbursement to local agencies for implementing these new requirements.

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