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Creative Bills Offered For Local Infrastructure Finance

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This could become a year of creative financing, and not merely for the state government. Lawmakers are considering at least three bills that could change the rules for financing local infrastructure.
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Cities Protect Industrial Lands

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In the face of never-ending demand for housing and concerns about eroding the job base, some cities are imposing regulations to protect their industrial lands.
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Governor Vetoes 'Green' Building Standards, Other Land Use Bills

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Three bills that would have established “green” building standards for housing, commercial structures and state government buildings were vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor also vetoed a controversial planning bill that would have limited cities’ ability to satisfy regional fair-share mandates with non-residentially zoned properties.

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Lawmakers Approve Flood Measures

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What a difference a year can make.

During the final days of the 2006 legislative session, a package of bills intended to force better coordination between flood control and land use planning in the Central Valley and Bay Delta region died amid a deluge of acrimony. This year, however, state lawmakers approved six bills similar to measures that failed last year.

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Lawsuits Filed Over Housing Allocations

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The fight over fair-share allocations of needed housing within the Southern California Association of Governments region is on. At least two cities have filed lawsuits and numerous others are reportedly considering their legal and political options.
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State Budget Deal Includes CEQA Compromise

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In passing the state budget on Tuesday, the Legislature agreed to begin resolving issues associated with the California Environmental Quality Act and global warming.

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Regional Planning Bill Advances

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A bill tying all local transportation projects to a regional “preferred growth scenario” that reduces automobile travel is quickly becoming the most important land use proposal of recent years in Sacramento.
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Global Warming Becomes CEQA Issue

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Like a blast of hot air from the Santa Ana winds of fall, the push to address global warming in environmental impact reports has come on suddenly and with surprising intensity.
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Homeownership Programs Prove Tricky

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As the popularity of inclusionary zoning for affordable housing has grown, so has the number of cities and counties who have a stake in affordable homeownership problems. Experts in those programs, however, warn that they are fraught with dangers and require extensive monitoring to ensure that units remain affordable.

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State Supreme Court Emerges As CEQA Enforcer

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In issuing its second California Environmental Quality Act ruling in seven months, the conservative-leaning California Supreme Court is emerging as one of CEQA’s staunchest defenders. The latest decision — the rejection of an environmental impact report’s water analysis for a large Sacramento-area housing project — is the court’s first foray into such water studies, and the court appears to have set a high standard.

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