California Environmental Quality Act Archives

AG Bonta and Pasadena At Odds Over SB 9 Housing District Exemption

March 16, 2022 4:48 pm

Attorney General Rob Bonta sent a letter to the city of Pasadena and Mayor Victor Gordo stating the city is violating a new housing law with an ordinance that exempts denser housing on Tuesday. At the center of the supposed...

Gov. Newsom Signs Bill Overriding Supreme Court Decision to Halt Enrollment at UC Berkeley

March 15, 2022 12:44 pm

A California Supreme Court ruling to halt enrollment levels from increasing at the University of California, Berkeley was overridden on Monday by Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of a bill that significantly changes the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and gives...

California Supreme Court Orders UC Berkeley to Freeze Current Enrollment

March 3, 2022 5:10 pmMarch 3, 2022 9:37 pm

The California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the University of California, Berkeley has to freeze enrollment due to violating the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and failing to provide enough housing for students around campus. UC Berkeley had long...

Bill To Convert Municipal Golf Courses to Affordable Housing Killed In Assembly Committee

January 21, 2022 11:55 amJanuary 21, 2022 11:55 am

A bill that would have created a grant program to convert municipal golf courses into housing and public lands, died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday, ending a nearly month-long threat to effectively remove municipal golf courses across the...

Proposed Guenoc Valley Luxury Resort Halted By Lake County Judge Over Wildfire Concerns, CEQA Issues

January 7, 2022 1:40 pm

Lake County Superior Court Judge J. David Markham ruled earlier this week that development of a large 25-square-mile proposed resort in the Guenoc Valley is to be stopped due to violations of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by not...

Governor Newsom Signs 4 Bills Designed To Boost Housing Numbers

September 17, 2021 2:11 amSeptember 16, 2021 9:11 pm

Governor Gavin Newsom signed several bills on Thursday designed to increase housing, speed up the process to approve multi-family housing, and to alter the approval process for new housing. In total, Newsom signed the following 4 bills: Senate Bill 8...

Senator Wiener’s SB 10 ‘Light Touch’ Housing Density Bill Passes Assembly 41-9

August 24, 2021 2:44 amAugust 23, 2021 9:44 pm

A bill that would increase higher-density housing near transit areas regardless of previous zoning or CEQA requirements passed the Assembly 41-9 on Monday. Senate Bill 10, authored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) would, minus any local zoning restrictions, authorize...