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L.A. Transpo Committee Denies CEQA Challenge Against Mar Vista Great Streets
Committee affirmed that the Mar Vista Venice Boulevard Great Streets project is exempt from CEQA review under state law.
February 28, 2019
Video: Introducing VMT – Vehicle Miles Traveled
Here's a video that explains VMT in a way that even kids can understand. Hopefully traffic engineers, too.
January 23, 2019
At Last, New Rules Are Final: Car Delay Is (Sometimes) NOT an Environmental Impact
After more than five years of discussion and delay—and long after the construction of the stadium it was attached to—S.B. 743's rules on measuring environmental impacts from transportation have been adopted
January 4, 2019
Mitigation Banks: How Benefits from Upcoming CEQA Change Could Be Captured, Shared, Amplified
A new report takes a look at a pioneering new way to handle mitigation under the California Environmental Quality Act that has huge potential benefits for communities far beyond a particular development.
October 5, 2018
Public Weighs in on Proposed CEQA VMT/LOS Changes
Not many people attended the hearing, but those who spoke up were pretty consistent in their feedback: don't exempt transportation projects from measuring how many vehicle miles they will encourage.
March 15, 2018
Update: Last Chance to Comment on Statewide Changes to CEQA
New rules called for by S.B. 743 will require development projects to estimate the vehicle miles of travel they will produce, instead of the amount of traffic delay they might cause. But as currently proposed, the rules will not apply to transportation projects.
March 9, 2018
San Jose Becomes Fourth California City to Adopt VMT as Metric for Traffic Impacts
The South Bay city joins Pasadena, San Francisco, and Oakland in moving away from a focus on vehicle delay and towards induced car trips to measure of environmental impacts of development.
March 6, 2018
SF Supervisors Save Hairball Improvements from Lengthy Environmental Review
San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to reject an appeal for a lengthy environmental review of proposed bicycle and pedestrian improvements to a mess of streets, ramps, sidewalks and bike lanes that come together at the intersection of Cesar Chavez and 101.
November 29, 2017
After 4 Years, Key Rule Requiring Development to Account for New Miles Driven Moves Forward
Yesterday the California Office of Planning and Research released a comprehensive update to CEQA. It marks a milestone in efforts to align transportation performance metrics with community values
November 28, 2017