Local governments, property owners, and environmental justice advocates all have issues with AB 98. It could invite more litigation over warehouses.

Altogether the governor signed more than 40 planning and development bills, vetoing only one bill designed to encourage conversion of old office buildings to housing, apparently because off the labor standards contained in the bill.

In reversing trial court ruling, appellate court okays lower significance threshold -- but also says higher baseline in a supplemental analysis was fine. 

AB 98 would impose standards on new warehouses, especially in the Inland Empire -- but environmental justice groups say it doesn't go far enough and the bill was prepared in secrecy

Two pending bills would limit the ability to build large warehouses near residences, schools, health-care facilities, and other "sensitive receptors".

Amid pressure from community groups, Inland Empire cities reconsider benefits of big warehouses.