More than half of the projects seeking CEQA streamlining involve electric or hydrogen bus charging infrastructure, including many located in highly polluted inland cities like Riverside and Fresno.
A person on an e-scooter waits in a bike lane next to a Muni stop at Seventh and Howard streets on April 11. Sen. Scott Wiener has proposed a new bill that would extend environmental exemptions for bus, light rail, biking and walking projects in order to speed up implementation.
SB 922 would extend the CEQA exemption for light-rail, bus, walking and biking projects through 2030. It would require certain labor standards as well as anti-displacement analysis for large projects costing more than $100 million. Heavy rail projects like subways and high-speed rail would not be subject to the bill, nor would any project that would increase car travel.
These projects would have been possible without CEQA streamlining, but they could have taken months or even years longer to complete, with commensurate increases in staff time and cost. But right now, Wiener says, CEQA poses an impediment. “There are a lot of environmental goals that are going to be hard to meet if we don’t have streamlining,” he said.
When it came before the Senate environment committee, the only listed opponent was the Sierra Club California. In a letter to the Legislature, the group wrote that SB 922 includes CEQA exemptions for “a broad range of projects that could have significant environmental impacts,” adding that the bill is “unnecessary and potentially harmful.”
“It’s not about how many lawsuits are filed,” Wiener said. “It’s about the fact that the constant fear and threat of lawsuits triggers more and more expensive and time-consuming CEQA processes so that it takes much longer and is more expensive than it would have been otherwise.”
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