CEQA is a state law passed in 1970 that requires developers to assess the environmental impacts of their projects and take measures to mitigate any adverse effects ... remedy projects, from CEQA analysis.
Signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom as part of the 2025 budget package, AB 130 (Wicks) and SB 131 (Wiener) took effect immediately on June 30 ...AttachmentsOriginal document Permalink.
) By Brady Guertin, legislative advocate (housing), and ArthurGoncalves, 2025 Ronald O ... Here are the biggest remaining bills - and a few wins - for city leaders. [...] ... Disclaimer ... (noodl. 125653155) .
That’s why I want to thank our state leaders for passing long-overdue reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) — reforms that will help communities like ours build more of the housing we desperately need.
That law — the California Environmental Quality Act, known as CEQA — has been staunchly defended by labor and environmental groups, which have used it as a cudgel to extract higher wages and community benefits from developers.
Signed into law by then-Governor Ronald Reagan in 1970, CEQA quickly became a textbook example of the law of unintended consequences ... CEQA had become a hindrance to environmental protection and sustainability, not a help.
Gavin Newsom go too far with CEQA reform? Economists ... CEQA is one of the main reasons California has the nation’s most unaffordable housing, with median prices more than double the rest of the U.S ... CEQA is broken and should be completely rethought.
Even the most ardent reform boosters acknowledge that the market forces arrayed against homebuilding will likely continue to stymie growth in The City....
we were not opposed to AB 130 in its entirety, nor did we oppose the notion of CEQA reform ... What we opposed, firmly was—the last-minute insertion of sweeping CEQA reform language drawn from Assembly Bill 609 (Wicks) into AB 130, a budget trailer bill.