YIMBYs and their allies nationwide celebrated on June 30th the collapse of a third rail in California politics. Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a budget package which, among its other elements, ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes reforming CEQA at a solar energy site in the Central Valley in 2023. (Image from governor’s office video) For over 50 years, the California Environmental Quality Act has ...
Like our changing climate and its many impacts on our communities, economy and environment; like the collapse of critical infrastructure; like the humanitarian homelessness crisis on our streets and ...
CRISIS. CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS ANNOUNCING AN EFFORT TO SIGNIFICANTLY SPEED UP HOUSING PRODUCTION IN THE STATE. KCRA THREE CAPITOL CORRESPONDENT ASHLEY ZAVALA EXPLAINS THIS LATEST PUSH. STATE LEADERS ...
SACRAMENTO—It’s not that typical that an acronym for an arcane regulation would be a household word, but in California the term CEQA—pronounced see-kwa—is as well-known as terms such as OMG and LOL.
When ordinary Californians trying and failing to build something complain to the Legislature about the petty, nothing-to-do-with-the-environment constraints of the 50-year-old California Environmental ...
On Jan. 30, 2008, in response to this need, a project proponent proposed an 858-unit continuing care retirement community and mixed-use commercial project on an infill site identified in a County ...
The landmark 1970 law for preserving California’s beauty has a long history of backfiring. Although the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, has made it harder to drain wetlands, pave nature ...