(a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 33334.2 or any other provision of law, a redevelopment agency established or governed pursuant to this article may:
(A) Annually waive the requirement to allocate 20 percent of the total annual tax increment revenue from any project area established pursuant to this article to the Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Fund for a period of up to five years after the date on which the county auditor makes the certification pursuant to Section 33492.9.
(B) Annually waive the requirement to allocate half of the 20 percent of the total annual tax increment revenue to the Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Fund for a period of five years after the fifth year after the date on which the county auditor makes the certification pursuant to Section 33492.9.
(2) The agency may not waive its allocation in any year unless it first adopts a finding, based on substantial evidence, that the vacancy rate for rental housing affordable to lower income households is greater than 6 percent.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 33413, the redevelopment agency shall not be required to replace removed or demolished military barracks, which are located, as of January 1, 1995, within the boundaries of Fort Ord.
(Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 45, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1996.)