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Effective Oct 11, 2025Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 650, Sec. 3. (SB 158) Effective October 11, 2025.
- (a) “Development project” means any project undertaken for the purpose of development. “Development project” includes a project involving the issuance of a permit for construction or reconstruction but not a permit to operate.
(b)
(1)
- (A) Except as otherwise provided in subparagraph (B), “development project” does not include any ministerial projects proposed to be carried out or approved by public agencies.
- (B) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), “development project” includes a housing development project, as that term is defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 65905.5, that requires an entitlement from a local agency, regardless of whether the process for permitting that entitlement is discretionary or ministerial.
- (2) “Development project” does not include a postentitlement phase permit, as that term is defined in Section 65913.3.