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Committee advances SB 71 to make CEQA transit exemptions permanent and expand eligible projects
Summary
Sen. Wiener’s bill to make permanent statutory CEQA exemptions for certain bus, rail, bike and pedestrian projects advanced out of the Transportation Committee with broad agency support. Proponents said the change speeds climate-friendly projects; no opposition in the hearing was reported.
Senate Bill 71, carried by Sen. Scott Wiener, cleared the Senate Transportation Committee with unanimous support recorded in committee and was placed on call for final votes. The bill would make permanent a set of statutory exemptions from the California Environmental Quality Act for certain greenhouse-gas–reducing transportation projects and would expand eligibility to include bus shelters, lighting, microtransit, paratransit, shuttles and ferry projects.
Supporters said the exemptions have accelerated delivery of climate-friendly…
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