The Legislature finds and declares that:
(a) State land use patterns should be encouraged that balance the location of employment-generating uses with residential uses so that employment-related commuting is minimized.
(b) Balance in employment and residential land use patterns reduces traffic congestion and may contribute to improvement of air quality in urban areas.
(c) Balancing of employment-generating land uses and residential land uses improves economic and housing opportunities and reduces loss of economic productivity caused by transportation delay.
(d) The attainment of a more balanced land use pattern requires the cooperation of government agencies with the private sector to assure that public and private decisions affecting land use take into consideration the need to seek balance in the location of employment-generating land uses and residential land uses.
(e) Local agencies and state agencies should cooperate to facilitate the balancing of employment-generating land uses and residential land uses and provisions of transportation to serve these uses.
(f) Local governments have the primary responsibility to plan for local land use patterns, within the parameters established by state law to achieve statewide needs.
(g) Housing must be provided for the estimated 3 million new workers and their families expected to be added to the California economy in the 1990’s.
(h) It is the intent of the Legislature to move toward the goal that every California worker have available the opportunity to reside close to his or her jobsite.
(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 843, Sec. 1.)