AB 735 (Carrillo D) Planning and zoning: logistics use: truck routes.

Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2025 
Last Amend: 3/26/2025
Status: 3/27/2025-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. L. GOV.
Summary: Current law, beginning January 1, 2026, prescribes various statewide warehouse design
and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments, as specified,
including, among other things, standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays,
landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. Current law defines various terms, including “21st
century warehouse,” and “tier 1 21 century warehouse,” for purposes of those provisions as logistics
uses that, among other things, comply with specified building and energy efficiency standards,
including requirements related to the availability of conduits and electrical hookups to power climate
control equipment at loading bays, as specified. Current law, subject to specified exceptions, defines
“logistics use” for these purposes to mean a building in which cargo, goods, or products are moved or
stored for later distribution to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve
retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of
the cargo, goods, or products. This bill would clarify that a 21st century warehouse and a tier 1 21st
century warehouse are required to comply with those standards as are in effect at the time that the
building permit for a development of a 21st century warehouse is issued and make other clarifying
changes relating to the permissibility of use of conduits and electrical hookups at loading bays at those
locations.