The fact of the matter is that nobody quite knows. Will developers be required to pay into the state's new fund? Will regional VMT mitigation banks emerge? How do you measure the mitigation? It's on LCI -- formerly OPR -- to figure it all out.
From infill housing exemptions to streamlined approval under the Permit Streamlining Act to a reduced administrative record, here's what you need know about the Legislature's sweeping actions.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed major infill housing reform with the budget, meaning the changes take place immediately. But on the non-residential side, it's still "Swiss-cheese CEQA," and there's no relief for greenfield proejcts.
In a CEQA case involving a Tejon Ranch project in the Antelope Valley, an appellate court concluded that a land use project is not a "covered entity" under the cap-and-trade law the way an oil refinery is.
The First District Court of Appeal published a ruling that favored the City of Eureka over opponents of an affordable housing project downtown. The city had separated the surplusing of the land from the selection of the affordable housing developer.
Appellate court rules that county can't condition permit completeness on additional environmental information not on the checklist -- but can do so if the checklist is more complete.
"Reasonable foreseeable" development is so deeply embedded in CEQA practice that it seems hard to dislodge. But that doesn't mean CEQA reformers in Sacramento won't try.
