To: [aaron r p] at [netcom.com] Subject: Proposition files Date: Wed, 01 Sep 93 22:40:18 +45722824 From: aphrael <[a--r--l] at [cats.ucsc.edu]> I'm sending each proposition under a seperate piece of mail since they're typed in seperate files ;=) Proposition 168. ================ This amendment proposed by Assembly Constitutional Amendment 17 (Statutes of 1992, Resolution Chapter 109) expressly amends the Constitution by amending sections thereof; therefore, existing provisions proposed to be deleted are marked by curly brackets, and new provisions proposed to be added are marked by asterisks. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XXIV, SECTION 1. SECTION 1. {No low rent housing project shall hereafted be developed, constructed, or acquired in any manner by any State public body until, a majority of the qualified electors of the city, town, or county, as the case may be, in which it is proposed to develop, construct, or acquire the same, voting upon such issue, approve such project by voting in favor thereof at an election to be held for that purpose, or at any general or special election.} *(a) Before one or more state public bodies develp, construct, or acquire a low rent housing project, the state public body shall provide public notice pursuant to standards adopted by the Legislature governing notice for adoption of ordinances or other official actions of the proposed development, construction, or acquisaition. The proposed development, construction, or acquisition shall only be subject to election in the manner prescribed in this section. If a low rent housing project is proposed to be located in a city, city and county, or the unincorporated territory of a county or areas thereof, the state public body providing notice shall specify in the public notice the unincorporated territory of the county, or of any city and county, it determines will incur a significant negative impact with reard to revenues of the city, city and county, or county, and with regard to the physical appearance of the surrounding community as a result of the proposed low rent housing project. (b) An election on the proposed low rent housing project shall be held if a petition signed by electors fo the city, city and county, or the unincorporated territory of the county or areas thereof specified in the public notice, equal in number to at least the percentage of signatures of registered voters required by statute to qualify a local referendum measure for the ballot within the city, city and county, or unincorporated territory of the county or areas thereof at the last gubernatorial election for all candidates for Governor, is submitted to the clerk of the legislative body of the city, county, or city and county within 30 days of the date of the first approval by the state public body of the development, construction, or acquisition of the low rent housing project. If a majority of the electors of the city, city and county, or unincorporated territory of the county or areas thereof voting on the issue reject the proposed development, constructio, or acquisition of the low rent housing project, the state public body shall not proceed with the proposed assistance to the project. If an election is not held pursuant to this section, or if held, the proposed development, construction, or acquisition is not rejected, the state public body may proceed with the development, construction, ora cquisition of the low rent housing project, and the development, construction, or acquisition of the project shall not be held to further election. (c)* For the purposes of this {Article} *article* the term "low rent housing project" shall mean any development *consisting of 16 or more housing units in a rural area or 24 or more housing units in an urban area* composed of {urban or rural} dwellings, apartments, or other living accomodations for persons of low income, *which is owned by a state public body and recieves an ad valorem property tax exemption not substantially reimbursed to all taxing agencies and which is eithe* financed *with loans or grants* in whole or in part by the {Federal Government or a State public body} *federal government* or to which the {Federal Government or State public body} *federal government* extends assistance by suppying all or part of the labor, by guaranteeing the payment of liens, or otherwise. For the purpose of this {Article} *article* only there shall be excluded from the term "low rent housing project" any {such} project where there shall be in existence ofn the effective date hereof, a contract for financial assistance between any state public body and the {Federal Government} *federal government* in respect to {such} *that* project *and any project whose operation does not have a significant negative impact on the revenues of the city, county, or city and county in which it is located and whose physical appearance does not have a significant impact on the surrounding community. (d)* For the purposes of this {Article} *article* only "persons of low income" shall mean persons or families who lack the amount of income which is necessary (as determined by the state public body developing, constructing, or acquiring the housing project) to enable them, without financial assistance, to live in decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings, without overcrowding. *(e)* For the purposes of this{Article} *article* the term "state public body" shall mean this State, or any city, city and county, county, district, authority, agency, or any other subdivision or public body of this State. *(f)* For the purpoes of this {Article} *article* the term {"Federal Government"} *federal government* shall mean the United States of America, or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America. *(g) Any proposal to develop, construct, or acquire low rent housing projects that was approved by the electors of a city, town, or county on or before November 3, 1992, pursuant to this article as it read on that data, and any low rent housing projects developed, constructed, or acquired pursuant to that approval, shall not be deemed to be invalid or superseded by the amendments to this article enacted on November 3, 1992, whether or not the approval is relied upon before or after November 3, 1992. ====== Source: Page 39 of the California Ballot Pamphlet for the November 2, 1993, Special Statewide Election. --- An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. 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