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The passage of AB 130 and SB 131 – the budget trailer bills from last summer – has shifted the landscape for planning in California in new ways. And although the impetus for these shifts came from the state’s desire to encourage more housing, there are pros and cons for both local governments and housing developers from the deal.

Regular readers of CP&DR will recall the major controversy over the review under the California Environmental Quality Act of the proposed construction of a student housing project on the People’s Park property in Berkeley: A community group in Berkeley – Make UC A Good Neighbor -- challenged the CEQA analysis and won in the appellate court. Then the Legislative adopted a bill to essentially overturn the appellate ruling and the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of the University of California and against the neighbors.

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