For the purposes of Sections 17041 and 17041.5, allowable building area may be computed, in the alternative to the methods prescribed by Section 17041, for any combination of two or more adjacent high school attendance areas pursuant to the following conditions:
(a) The project to be funded is for the construction of a high school, junior high school, or elementary school located or to be located in any of those high school attendance areas.
(b) The high school, junior high school, or elementary school to be constructed is to serve pupils residing in each of those high school attendance areas.
(c) The combined computation of allowable building area reflects the allowable building area to which each of the high school attendance areas would otherwise be entitled, reflecting the proportion of projected pupil enrollment in the school to be constructed, as calculated under this chapter, from each of those attendance areas.
(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997. Operative January 1, 1998.)