SB 71
California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: environmental leadership transit projects.
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Bill overview
This bill extends California’s Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exemptions for certain transportation projects, primarily focused on transit improvements. Specifically, it permanently extends exemptions for active transportation plans, pedestrian plans, bicycle plans, and transit route adjustments. It also expands exemptions to include comprehensive operational analyses, microtransit, paratransit, and ferry services, as long as they utilize near-zero-emission vehicles. The bill also adjusts the dollar amount threshold for CEQA exemptions to projects exceeding $100 million, requiring a project business case and racial equity analysis, and establishes a process for the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to update these thresholds annually.
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