Article 17. Community Facilities Plan of California Government Code >> Division 2. >> Title 5. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 17.

This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Local-State Financial Coordination Act."

It is the Legislature's intent that local agencies pursue financing, within the limitations, prescribed by Articles XIII A and XIII B of the California Constitution, for required public facilities. In order to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state and to effectively plan for future development, it is essential that all public facilities be provided in accordance with the coordinated construction schedule to assure necessary public services to residential, commercial, and industrial developments.

An action to determine the validity of any resolution, ordinance, agreement, or method of financing authorized or undertaken pursuant to this article or Article 18 (commencing with Section 53990) may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this section shall govern the construction of this article and Article 18 (commencing with Section 53990). The definition of a word applies to any of its variants. As used in this article and Article 18 (commencing with Section 53990):
  (a) "Legislative body" means the elected or appointed governing body or authority of a local agency.
  (b) "Local agency" means a city, county, city and county, special district, school district, community college district, county superintendent of schools, or any other agency of the state formed for the local performance of governmental or proprietary functions within limited boundaries.
  (c) "Plan" means a plan which specifies the new public facilities to serve residential, commercial, and industrial developments within a defined area and the financing and construction schedule of new public facilities.
  (d) "State agency" means any office, department, commission, or agency of the State of California with authority to approve or recommend approval of the priority of allocation, or allocations, of state funds to local agencies or to approve or recommend approval of the priority or allocation of funds for state construction.

Any local agency may adopt a plan which shall include, but not be limited to, a component identifying public facilities needed for development within a defined area and a component describing the method of financing construction of such public facilities.

It is the specific intent of this article and Article 18 (commencing with Section 53990) to protect the financial integrity of a plan by assuring continued and timely allocation of state funds to meet construction of public facilities which are the responsibility of the state and are included in the adopted plan.

The local agency shall give written notice of the adoption of the plan, and submit copies for delivery, to those state agencies which may be affected as determined by the State Clearinghouse in the Office of Planning and Research.

A local agency and a state agency may enter into an agreement to coordinate the priority or allocation of state funds to the local agency for state construction projects in order to implement the financial component of the plan.

On and after the date that an agreement is executed pursuant to Section 53987, or if a local agency adopts a plan which is consistent with a priority list adopted by a state agency, or if a state agency adopts a priority list consistent with a plan adopted by a local agency, no state agency shall alter, defer, or deny priority or allocation of state funds or alter, defer, or deny priority or allocation of state construction, except where necessary for reasons beyond the control of either agency, including, but not limited to, environmental complications, a change in the scope of the project, or insufficient funds. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the Clean Water Grant Program, which the federal Environmental Protection Agency has delegated to the State Water Resources Control Board to administer pursuant to the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act and the Federal Clean Water Act, or to public facilities which are not owned by a local agency or a state agency.