Draft CEQA Updates Now Available for Public Comment
A big moment in the process of updating the California Environmental Equality Act.
Damien Newton reports that the state of California has released a final draft of its recommended changes to the California Environmental Quality Act—the long anticipated change from Level of Service (LOS) to Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) as a measure of project impact.
The draft is currently available online [pdf] and open for public comment. The article includes several soundbites from advocates supporting the changes, as well as a rundown of past coverage from Streetsblog on CEQA reform.
More past coverage of the developments in this story can be found in the links below.
Published on Friday, January 22, 2016 in
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