Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about CA Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)

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California Prepares to Shift Planning Focus from Car Delay to Induced Travel

By Melanie Curry | Apr 17, 2020 | No Comments

Starting July 1, the California Environmental Quality Act will require projects in California to account for how many new miles of automobile travel they produce, rather than how much congestion they contribute

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California Planners Have Already Been Swapping VMT for LOS

By Melanie Curry | Dec 4, 2019 | No Comments

The state's "seismic" shift from measuring congestion to assessing new travel has been a glacial but inexorable change

Building for cars has just brought more cars. Caltrans adopting this change in CEQA is a start to fixing that. Image: Biofriend

Caltrans Will Account for New Driving Produced by its Transportation Projects

By Melanie Curry | Nov 25, 2019 | No Comments

A "profound change" in how transportation impacts are accounted for is coming, in line with efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and driving and increase biking, walking, and transit trips

AB1197 Celebration this morning - photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

L.A. Leaders Celebrate Passage of A.B. 1197 to Speed Homeless Housing

By Joe Linton | Oct 3, 2019 | 4 Comments

A.B. 1197 makes Los Angeles emergency homeless shelters and supportive housing projects exempt from California Environmental Quality Act

Adding a lane won't reduce this congestion. Photo: Wikimedia

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National Center for Sustainable Transportation Explains New Induced Travel Calculator

By Melanie Curry | May 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

Confused about how building highways could end up creating more traffic congestion? This webinar can help

Senators Ben Allen, Hannah-Beth Jackson, and Bob Wieckowski, from left at dais, listen to testimony on California Environmental Quality Act lawsuits

Is CEQA Preventing Housing from Being Built in California?

By Melanie Curry | Mar 13, 2019 | 5 Comments

No, say CEQA experts at legislative hearing

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