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Critics claim its ever-broadening scope and lengthy review process have slowed development and made it too expensive to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, however, reforming CEQA has been a divisive issue among state Democrats, due to its ardent support among labor, \u003ca href=\"https://ceja.org/what-we-do/green-zones/ceqa-case-studies/\">environmental\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ceqaworks.org/\">groups\u003c/a> and others, who have heralded it as one of the \u003ca href=\"https://w.ecovote.org/california-environmental-quality-act-the-myths-vs-the-facts/\">most important tools\u003c/a> to fight pollution and sprawl. 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"content": "\u003cp>After weeks of tense negotiations with California lawmakers, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed legislation that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036917/bill-reform-controversial-environmental-law-faces-first-legislative-hurdle\">promises to make big changes\u003c/a> to the state’s landmark environmental law, calling it the “most consequential housing reform we’ve seen in modern history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two bills — AB 609 from Asm. Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, and SB 607, by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco — were folded into addendums to the state budget, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/27/budget/\">approved Friday\u003c/a>. They both take aim at the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/environment/ceqa\">1970 California Environmental Quality Act\u003c/a>, known as CEQA (pronounced “see-kwah” in state legislative parlance), which has been the ire of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/03/ceqa-infill-housing-wicks/\">housing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/06/ceqa-environmental-law-reform/\">advocates\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/report/california-environmental-quality-act-ceqa/\">oversight agencies\u003c/a> for years. Critics claim its ever-broadening scope and lengthy review process have slowed development and made it too expensive to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This budget that is connected to [those reforms] is a budget that builds,” Newsom said Monday. “It’s not just a housing package, it’s also about infrastructure, it’s also about high speed rail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, however, reforming CEQA has been a divisive issue among state Democrats, due to its ardent support among labor, \u003ca href=\"https://ceja.org/what-we-do/green-zones/ceqa-case-studies/\">environmental\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ceqaworks.org/\">groups\u003c/a> and others, who have heralded it as one of the \u003ca href=\"https://w.ecovote.org/california-environmental-quality-act-the-myths-vs-the-facts/\">most important tools\u003c/a> to fight pollution and sprawl. And they often point to \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3956250\">studies \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cp-dr.com/articles/how-long-can-the-swiss-cheese-approach-ceqa-go/b24c31e081204b8eb4cbbf4f6313f2db\">calling into question\u003c/a> whether it truly stops development from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Baker, state policy director for the Planning and Conservation League, an environmental advocacy group, said he was particularly concerned with the provisions in SB 607, which he called “the worst rollback of environmental and public health protections” the state has seen in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Side-stepping the legislative process in a fast-track budget deal that has had zero transparency for such significant changes to the one law that gives our communities voice in the planning decisions that affect them is just simply a disgrace to our democracy,” he said. “This is the way you do bad things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction is underway on an affordable housing apartment building at 2550 Irving Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as the state seeks to make housing more affordable and meet its energy goals, Wiener said it needs to be easier for projects to get approved and built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high costs devastating our communities stem directly from our extreme shortage of housing, childcare, affordable healthcare, and so many of the other things families need to thrive,” he said in a statement shortly after the Legislature’s vote. “These bills get red tape and major process hurdles out of the way, allowing us to finally start addressing these shortages and securing an affordable California and a brighter future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, legislators have taken a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cp-dr.com/articles/how-long-can-the-swiss-cheese-approach-ceqa-go/b24c31e081204b8eb4cbbf4f6313f2db\">Swiss cheese\u003c/a>” approach to CEQA reform, bypassing the more onerous requirements by exempting \u003ca href=\"https://www.scag.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/ceqa_exemptions_for_housing_projects_-_project_eligibility_review_matrix.pdf\">certain kinds of development\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-27/california-lawmakers-ceqa-exemption-environmental-law-capitol-annex-renovation\">even\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959483/legislation-that-could-push-peoples-park-student-housing-project-forward-heads-to-newsom\">specific\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-stadium-bills-failures-20170411-story.html\">projects\u003c/a>. But the two bills included in this year’s budget aim to make bolder moves: AB 609 exempts all urban housing development from individually going through the review process, while SB 607 exempts another nine categories of projects from review under the law, if they meet certain criteria, and narrows its scope for a variety of projects by avoiding what Wiener described as “repetitive” studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-14/newsom-announces-support-for-ceqa-exemption-bills\">publicly supported these bills\u003c/a> when he included them in his revised budget in May, but his strongest endorsement came last week, when he \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB102\">required\u003c/a> the bills to be included in two “trailer bills” — AB 130 and SB 131 — and approved, or the budget would be repealed entirely.[aside postID=news_12046283 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-24-BL_qed.jpg']“It was too urgent, too important to allow the process to unfold as it has for the last generation, invariably falling prey to all kinds of pratfall and I was too concerned that that would indeed occur again if we allowed this process to unfold in the traditional way,” Newsom said, addressing criticism that the bills were fast-tracked. “If we can’t address this issue, we’re going to lose trust, and that’s just the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Elmendorf, a land-use and housing law expert at the UC Davis School of Law, called the maneuver “pretty bold.” The governor typically remains on the sidelines during legislative battles, he said, especially those involving controversial housing bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t really get involved in arm-twisting in the legislature, [but he] did the most intensive form of arm-twisting which is available to him,” Elmendorf said. “Because we need a budget. And in fact, if the budget isn’t passed on time, legislators don’t get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That arm-twisting is partly what concerns environmental groups that wanted more public discussion about what these bills would do before they got signed into law. Asha Sharma, state policy manager for the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, said she wanted to see Newsom taking a stronger stance to uphold environmental protections in California, especially amidst \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launches-biggest-deregulatory-action-us-history\">federal\u003c/a> rollbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA is really the only way that we have any type of voice or say in what these projects look like,” she said. “It is really concerning that that is where [Newsom’s] priorities are, especially in such a precarious moment at a federal level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1997px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1997\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed.jpg 1997w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1997px) 100vw, 1997px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mother and daughter watch the construction from the balcony of their new home, which they helped to build in the Central Commons development in Fremont, California, on June 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But housing advocates argue that protecting the environment is at the heart of the two bills featured in the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language from Wick’s bill is included in trailer bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB130\">AB 130\u003c/a>, which exempts infill housing — homes built within an existing city — from lengthy CEQA reviews. If it’s easier for developers to build homes in denser areas, Wicks argues it could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by longer commutes to \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/06/suburban-sprawl-cancels-carbon-footprint-savings-of-dense-urban-cores/\">far-off\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://unu.edu/article/suburban-living-worst-carbon-emissions-new-research\">suburbs\u003c/a>. Apartments also tend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=11731\">use less energy\u003c/a> than detached homes, according to the US Energy Information Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these places that are already urban, already developed, already have infrastructure … that type of housing development is by far the most environmentally beneficial,” said Matthew Lewis, spokesperson for the housing lobbying group, CA YIMBY. “What these bills do is they basically codify that by saying, we recognize that these types of homes are good for the environment and therefore do not have to go through these extensive environmental processes.”[aside postID=news_12011579 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-45-KQED.jpg']Trailer bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB131\">SB 131\u003c/a>, which includes Wiener’s bill, makes more technical changes to CEQA reviews, but ultimately tries to avoid redundancies in the process. Among other provisions, the bill includes a number of CEQA exemptions for certain categories of development, including high-speed rail, trails and wildfire mitigation projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also exempts advanced manufacturing facilities in industrial areas, a feature Wiener hopes will spur the production of electronics and semiconductors in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing a new kind of manufacturing that we’re trying to reshore into the US, whether it’s semiconductors, electronics, other kinds of advanced technology that we want to be produced here,” Wiener told KQED. “And the last thing we want is for California to get skipped over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But environmental groups say this exemption is precisely what concerns them about the bill. Semiconductor factories often require significant amounts of water to fabricate microchips and can release hazardous chemicals into the air and water supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers build at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco on June 18, 2025, during a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of two affordable housing projects. One will deliver 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and the other at 850 Turk will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley garnered international esteem for its semiconductor and microprocessor facilities, but now has \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live\">23 toxic Superfund sites,\u003c/a> a designation the Environmental Protection Agency gives to the worst hazardous waste sites in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are examples across the state of how the communities surrounding these facilities have just really experienced a lot of health harm,” Raquel Mason, senior legislative manager with the California Environmental Justice Alliance, said at a press conference opposing the bill. “This is why CEQA [was created], so that we can have this review and make sure that there’s safety and health considerations for projects exactly like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to housing, however, some advocates argue those reviews can result in more process than progress. They have criticized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002905/it-was-a-sleepy-year-for-housing-legislation-here-are-some-that-made-it-through\">recent legislation as being ineffective\u003c/a> because they made too many concessions to environmental groups and often fell into an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.html\">everything bagel black hole\u003c/a> of qualifications — an idea central to the burgeoning \u003ca href=\"https://www.abundancenetwork.com/the-movement/\">Abundance\u003c/a> movement. That Newsom fought to get Wicks’ and Wiener’s bills passed so quickly is telling, Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEQA has been the third rail of California politics for decades, but Lewis argued the state no longer has the luxury to delay the housing it needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is just fundamentally irresponsible to be blocking homes in California cities in 2025 when we’re seeing the incredible heat waves across the country. We’re seeing wildfires, we’re seeing flooding, we’re seeing storms destroy entire communities, all because of the pollution caused from sprawl and traffic and other pollution,” he said. “It’s time to get over that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Baker, state policy director for the Planning and Conservation League, an environmental advocacy group, said he was particularly concerned with the provisions in SB 607, which he called “the worst rollback of environmental and public health protections” the state has seen in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Side-stepping the legislative process in a fast-track budget deal that has had zero transparency for such significant changes to the one law that gives our communities voice in the planning decisions that affect them is just simply a disgrace to our democracy,” he said. “This is the way you do bad things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction is underway on an affordable housing apartment building at 2550 Irving Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as the state seeks to make housing more affordable and meet its energy goals, Wiener said it needs to be easier for projects to get approved and built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high costs devastating our communities stem directly from our extreme shortage of housing, childcare, affordable healthcare, and so many of the other things families need to thrive,” he said in a statement shortly after the Legislature’s vote. “These bills get red tape and major process hurdles out of the way, allowing us to finally start addressing these shortages and securing an affordable California and a brighter future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, legislators have taken a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cp-dr.com/articles/how-long-can-the-swiss-cheese-approach-ceqa-go/b24c31e081204b8eb4cbbf4f6313f2db\">Swiss cheese\u003c/a>” approach to CEQA reform, bypassing the more onerous requirements by exempting \u003ca href=\"https://www.scag.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/ceqa_exemptions_for_housing_projects_-_project_eligibility_review_matrix.pdf\">certain kinds of development\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-27/california-lawmakers-ceqa-exemption-environmental-law-capitol-annex-renovation\">even\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959483/legislation-that-could-push-peoples-park-student-housing-project-forward-heads-to-newsom\">specific\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-stadium-bills-failures-20170411-story.html\">projects\u003c/a>. But the two bills included in this year’s budget aim to make bolder moves: AB 609 exempts all urban housing development from individually going through the review process, while SB 607 exempts another nine categories of projects from review under the law, if they meet certain criteria, and narrows its scope for a variety of projects by avoiding what Wiener described as “repetitive” studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-14/newsom-announces-support-for-ceqa-exemption-bills\">publicly supported these bills\u003c/a> when he included them in his revised budget in May, but his strongest endorsement came last week, when he \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB102\">required\u003c/a> the bills to be included in two “trailer bills” — AB 130 and SB 131 — and approved, or the budget would be repealed entirely.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It was too urgent, too important to allow the process to unfold as it has for the last generation, invariably falling prey to all kinds of pratfall and I was too concerned that that would indeed occur again if we allowed this process to unfold in the traditional way,” Newsom said, addressing criticism that the bills were fast-tracked. “If we can’t address this issue, we’re going to lose trust, and that’s just the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Elmendorf, a land-use and housing law expert at the UC Davis School of Law, called the maneuver “pretty bold.” The governor typically remains on the sidelines during legislative battles, he said, especially those involving controversial housing bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t really get involved in arm-twisting in the legislature, [but he] did the most intensive form of arm-twisting which is available to him,” Elmendorf said. “Because we need a budget. And in fact, if the budget isn’t passed on time, legislators don’t get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That arm-twisting is partly what concerns environmental groups that wanted more public discussion about what these bills would do before they got signed into law. Asha Sharma, state policy manager for the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, said she wanted to see Newsom taking a stronger stance to uphold environmental protections in California, especially amidst \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launches-biggest-deregulatory-action-us-history\">federal\u003c/a> rollbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA is really the only way that we have any type of voice or say in what these projects look like,” she said. “It is really concerning that that is where [Newsom’s] priorities are, especially in such a precarious moment at a federal level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1997px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1997\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed.jpg 1997w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1997px) 100vw, 1997px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mother and daughter watch the construction from the balcony of their new home, which they helped to build in the Central Commons development in Fremont, California, on June 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But housing advocates argue that protecting the environment is at the heart of the two bills featured in the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language from Wick’s bill is included in trailer bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB130\">AB 130\u003c/a>, which exempts infill housing — homes built within an existing city — from lengthy CEQA reviews. If it’s easier for developers to build homes in denser areas, Wicks argues it could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by longer commutes to \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/06/suburban-sprawl-cancels-carbon-footprint-savings-of-dense-urban-cores/\">far-off\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://unu.edu/article/suburban-living-worst-carbon-emissions-new-research\">suburbs\u003c/a>. Apartments also tend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=11731\">use less energy\u003c/a> than detached homes, according to the US Energy Information Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these places that are already urban, already developed, already have infrastructure … that type of housing development is by far the most environmentally beneficial,” said Matthew Lewis, spokesperson for the housing lobbying group, CA YIMBY. “What these bills do is they basically codify that by saying, we recognize that these types of homes are good for the environment and therefore do not have to go through these extensive environmental processes.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or every 10 babies in Napa County, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://crcnapa.org/child-care-expansion-report/\">just one licensed infant care slot\u003c/a>. The demand for day care is so high that parents get on waitlists as soon as they’re pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenae Royal found that out the hard way when she went back to work as a vineyard operations manager two months after giving birth to her son, King. She needed to oversee an event, and her partner couldn’t afford to take time off his job as chef of a hotel restaurant. So she brought her baby to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were warned that finding child care could be challenging, but I just didn’t give it the weight it deserved,” Royal said. “I had no idea it was to that degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the harvest season, Royal paid a nanny $30 an hour to care for King while she worked long hours to oversee the grape picking. However, the nanny eventually left for a higher-paying job as a night nurse, leaving the couple to juggle work and caregiving until they found an opening at Le Petit Elephant, the largest nursery and preschool in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le Petit Elephant’s owner, Milli Pintacsi, has a plan to move into a bigger facility and double her capacity, allowing her to serve more families like Royal’s, but a lawsuit from neighbors is threatening the expansion. The story playing out in this small Napa neighborhood highlights just how difficult it is to tackle the child care shortage that is putting the squeeze on families across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le Petit Elephant cares for 128 children out of a former Christian school in a densely packed neighborhood of apartment buildings, businesses and homes. The lease for this property will end in December 2025. Last year, Pintacsi was awarded $2.8 million in federal and state grants, meant to help the child care industry recover from the pandemic, to move into a bigger, more permanent space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pintacsi found a vacant church in Alta Heights, a hillside neighborhood of single-family homes, and outbid a few developers to buy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a property that is perfect for this,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 20,000-square-foot church has a large parking lot, a lawn that could become a play yard and 18 rooms that could be converted into infant- and toddler-care rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008438\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008438\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">15 Chapel Hill Dr., the site of a city-approved proposal to convert a Mormon church to the town’s largest childcare center in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The church also has a multipurpose room, complete with a basketball court, stage and kitchen. Pintacsi wants to rent it out for after-school care, day camps, birthday parties, puppet shows and other kid-oriented activities. The revenue would help cover child care costs for some families who receive financial aid and provide a livable wage for their teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be able to have things for families to do in Napa, and we’d be able to raise money for more scholarships and teachers to be paid better so they can afford to live in Napa,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, longtime residents of Alta Heights oppose the project, saying that having such a big day care with multiple uses would increase noise and traffic, which may affect evacuations during a wildfire. They packed a planning commission meeting to voice their concerns, and after the panel approved the project, they appealed the decision to the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the council meeting, they waved signs that said, “Safety First Alta Heights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the preschool waved their own signs that declared: “Babies Over NIMBYS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council rejected their appeal in May after finding that it wouldn’t significantly impact traffic and placing a limit on the types and size of events that would be allowed in the multipurpose room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milli Pintacsi, Founder of Le Petit Elephant Nursery and Preschool, shows KQED reporter Daisy Nguyen a blueprint for 15 Chapel Hill Dr. in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the project has been held up since three neighbors filed a lawsuit under the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, demanding the city rescind approval of the project until a more thorough environmental impact review is conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs declined to be interviewed, citing ongoing settlement talks and being the target of disparaging remarks. They were singled out in a website created by a group of parents who are supporters of both Le Petit Elephant and It Takes A Village, a nonprofit group raising funds for the preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers established CEQA in 1970 to better protect the environment from development. But in recent years, the statute has drawn criticism as it’s been used as a tool to block housing and infrastructure projects. Developers are often compelled to do costly environmental impact studies, scale back their projects or face long delays, said Chris Elmendorf, a land use and housing expert at UC Davis School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve got the ability to force a delay of a couple of years at an expense of a couple hundred thousand dollars onto a project, you have a lot of leverage to negotiate for any kind of side arrangement that you’d like,” Elmendorf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='early-childhood-education-and-care']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited a lawsuit that delayed the construction of a much-needed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989237/uc-berkeley-can-start-building-on-peoples-park-california-supreme-court-rules\">student housing project at UC Berkeley\u003c/a> for three years and ignited a fierce debate over CEQA. Two neighborhood groups sought to argue under the environmental law that noise generated by future student residents would be a form of pollution and demanded that the university study the impacts on neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pintacsi hopes to reach a deal so she can begin renovating the classrooms. Already, the legal fees have drained her financial aid fund, and she’s running out of time to renovate the classrooms or find another facility before her lease ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the church is the best option she found in her yearslong search for a suitable and affordable site for her preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are no buildings that I can just jump to if this neighborhood doesn’t accept us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not easy to find a facility in a high-rent and well-developed city like Napa that meets zoning and licensing requirements for child care, said Daniel Sanchez, who’s in charge of Napa County’s distribution of federal pandemic aid to child care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a huge amount of buildings turning over or going for sale, much less a huge amount of appropriate buildings that could be used for child care,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Burton, a small business consultant who helped Pintacsi look for another site for Le Petit Elephant, said the only other viable location was near two cannabis businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Infant care is sorely lacking in the county because it’s not financially viable: providers have to meet tougher requirements than they do for toddler care, including a ratio of one adult for every four babies and a limit of four infants per home-based day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008443\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008443\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milli Pintacsi, Founder of Le Petit Elephant Nursery and Preschool, wipes an infant’s nose at the school in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez cited a 2022 study of the region’s child care market, which found that providers also had a hard time hiring and retaining workers. Their median salaries of $20 to $25 per hour weren’t enough to cover Napa’s high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are some of the reasons why larger [child care] chains won’t come here,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found that after-hours child care was also badly needed for hospitality and restaurant employees who work night or weekend shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Royal said the full-time child care her son receives from Le Petit Elephant amounts to 25% of her salary, but she couldn’t do without it because she doesn’t have relatives close by to help her. If the preschool closes, she said she may have to move out of the region and leave behind her career in the wine industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Napa would not be Napa without the labor and the livelihoods of people who need child care,” she said. “We are raising the next generation of citizens that are going to be growing up in Napa, and Milli’s school is providing this amazing foundation [for children] who are going to contribute positively when they become young adults. And you need that to sustain a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the total amount of the government grants awarded to Pintacsi, and the group behind the website that singled out plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le Petit Elephant cares for 128 children out of a former Christian school in a densely packed neighborhood of apartment buildings, businesses and homes. The lease for this property will end in December 2025. Last year, Pintacsi was awarded $2.8 million in federal and state grants, meant to help the child care industry recover from the pandemic, to move into a bigger, more permanent space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pintacsi found a vacant church in Alta Heights, a hillside neighborhood of single-family homes, and outbid a few developers to buy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a property that is perfect for this,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 20,000-square-foot church has a large parking lot, a lawn that could become a play yard and 18 rooms that could be converted into infant- and toddler-care rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008438\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008438\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">15 Chapel Hill Dr., the site of a city-approved proposal to convert a Mormon church to the town’s largest childcare center in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The church also has a multipurpose room, complete with a basketball court, stage and kitchen. Pintacsi wants to rent it out for after-school care, day camps, birthday parties, puppet shows and other kid-oriented activities. The revenue would help cover child care costs for some families who receive financial aid and provide a livable wage for their teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be able to have things for families to do in Napa, and we’d be able to raise money for more scholarships and teachers to be paid better so they can afford to live in Napa,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, longtime residents of Alta Heights oppose the project, saying that having such a big day care with multiple uses would increase noise and traffic, which may affect evacuations during a wildfire. They packed a planning commission meeting to voice their concerns, and after the panel approved the project, they appealed the decision to the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the council meeting, they waved signs that said, “Safety First Alta Heights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the preschool waved their own signs that declared: “Babies Over NIMBYS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council rejected their appeal in May after finding that it wouldn’t significantly impact traffic and placing a limit on the types and size of events that would be allowed in the multipurpose room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milli Pintacsi, Founder of Le Petit Elephant Nursery and Preschool, shows KQED reporter Daisy Nguyen a blueprint for 15 Chapel Hill Dr. in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the project has been held up since three neighbors filed a lawsuit under the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, demanding the city rescind approval of the project until a more thorough environmental impact review is conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs declined to be interviewed, citing ongoing settlement talks and being the target of disparaging remarks. They were singled out in a website created by a group of parents who are supporters of both Le Petit Elephant and It Takes A Village, a nonprofit group raising funds for the preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers established CEQA in 1970 to better protect the environment from development. But in recent years, the statute has drawn criticism as it’s been used as a tool to block housing and infrastructure projects. Developers are often compelled to do costly environmental impact studies, scale back their projects or face long delays, said Chris Elmendorf, a land use and housing expert at UC Davis School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve got the ability to force a delay of a couple of years at an expense of a couple hundred thousand dollars onto a project, you have a lot of leverage to negotiate for any kind of side arrangement that you’d like,” Elmendorf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:30 p.m. Friday, June 7.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capping a decades-long \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971915/peoples-park-fight-pits-housing-against-history\">battle over the fate of People’s Park\u003c/a>, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that UC Berkeley can start constructing a student dormitory and supportive housing facility on the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case stemmed from a 2021 lawsuit against UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://capitalstrategies.berkeley.edu/planning-documents\">Long Range Development Plan\u003c/a>, which aims to add nearly 12,000 new student beds and 8 million square feet of new classrooms, research labs, libraries and other amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pleased and relieved that the Supreme Court’s decision enables the campus to resume construction at People’s Park,” Kyle Gibson, UC Berkeley’s director of communications, said in a statement. “The housing components of the project are desperately needed by our students and unhoused people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two neighborhood groups, Make UC A Good Neighbor and the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group, brought the initial lawsuit, arguing that the park should be protected as a historic landmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be losing a lot with People’s Park,” Harvey Smith, president of the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group, said on Thursday. “It’s a national historic site, so this goes beyond Berkeley; it goes beyond the state of California. All that is being ignored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to reporters from his Berkeley office Friday, Mayor Jesse \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arreguín \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">acknowledged the park’s more than half-century-long role as a center for political activism and community building. But, he said, “H\u003c/span>istory should not stop us from progress\u003ci>.”\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We face these huge challenges as a city, as a region, as a state, of rampant homelessness and housing affordability,” he said. “And I think that the city of Berkeley and the university need to do something to address those those challenges, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood groups had sought to make a novel case under state environmental law, arguing that noise generated by the future student residents would be a form of pollution, requiring UC Berkeley to study the impacts on neighbors. Although noise is considered pollution under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), it had previously been used exclusively in arguments against concert venues or industrial sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2023, an appellate court agreed with the groups and ruled that the university had to study the noise from future residents and its impact on neighbors, as well as consider alternative sites for the proposed development at People’s Park and housing built elsewhere on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court ruled that none of Make UC A Good Neighbor’s claims about social noise had merit and reversed the Court of Appeal’s judgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decline to consider Good Neighbor’s alternative locations argument with respect to potential future housing projects,” the opinion read. “In short, as all parties have effectively acknowledged, this lawsuit poses no obstacle to the development of the People’s Park housing project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11981358,news_11971915,news_11971858 label='related coverage']In the face of the state’s and UC Berkeley’s student housing crisis, many California legislators had sought alternative ways to protect the university’s campus expansion plan. Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Berkeley) \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959483/legislation-that-could-push-peoples-park-student-housing-project-forward-heads-to-newsom\">penned AB 1307\u003c/a>, a bill specifically tailored to this project. It amended CEQA so developers don’t have to consider noise generated by future residents as having a “significant effect on the environment” and allowed public universities not to have to consider alternative locations for projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bill was quickly signed into law and effectively cleared the way for the People’s Park development, but it left the door open on whether UC Berkeley would have to study noise impacts and consider alternative sites for other housing projects in its Long Range Development Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling closed that door, stating that “the new law applies to both the People’s Park housing project and the development plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arreguín, who is \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/03/06/state-senate-results-district-7-berkeley-oakland/\">running for a state Senate seat\u003c/a>, lauded the ruling, calling the lower court’s decision “misguided” and “not based in fact or law.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine how that could be weaponized by NIMBYs throughout California to stop affordable housing, to stop permanent supportive housing and stop student housing?” he said. “Thankfully, that will no longer be a barrier for this project or any project in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, courts have taken a more expansive view of CEQA seeking to protect the environment, according to UC Davis land-use law professor Chris Elmendorf. This ruling suggests a shift in perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California Supreme Court is interpreting CEQA in light of current legislative sentiments rather than in light of judicial sentiments from the 1970s,” Elmendorf said. “The court is sort of trying to make CEQA responsive to present-day needs, as expressed by the political branches of government, rather than carrying forward a vision of CEQA that was first advanced in the courts in the 1970s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university currently provides the lowest amount of student housing within the UC system: about 22% of its more than 45,000 undergraduate and graduate students have access to university-provided housing. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a case brought by two groups opposed to UC Berkeley’s plan to build student housing at People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case hinges on whether the court considers noise from future residents a form of pollution and whether housing developers should be held to stricter standards when it comes to studying alternative sites for proposed projects. Depending on how the court rules, it could empower community members to demand that developers do extra studies before building new housing, potentially lengthening an already tedious process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a person is vehemently opposed to a project, they can go to court and say ‘tell them to do more studies,’” said Chris Elmendorf, a professor at UC Davis specializing in land-use law. “Maybe the court agrees, or maybe the court disagrees, but while the project is in court, it’s effectively on hold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11971858,news_11972091,news_11971577 label='What Happened in Peoples Park']This case, over the planned development of People’s Park, stems from a 2021 lawsuit brought by Make UC A Good Neighbor and The People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group against UC Berkeley’s heavily contested \u003ca href=\"https://capitalstrategies.berkeley.edu/planning-documents\">Long Range Development Plan\u003c/a>, which aims to add nearly 12,000 new student beds and 8 million square feet of new classrooms, research labs, libraries and other amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most controversial development in the plan is the proposal to build housing on People’s Park, including a dormitory for students and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972108/uc-berkeleys-housing-project-in-peoples-park-still-needs-a-developer\">nonprofit-run\u003c/a> apartments for unhoused and low-income people. Many who oppose the project \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971915/peoples-park-fight-pits-housing-against-history\">want, instead, to preserve the park and its history as a site for political activism in the 1960s and 1970s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit argues that UC Berkeley didn’t adequately consider alternative sites for all of the new structures in the expansion plan, including the People’s Park housing development, and didn’t properly analyze how noise from students on the newly expanded campus would impact neighbors and city residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though a new state law was passed to clear the way for housing at the park following the original filing of the lawsuit, it is narrowly tailored to this project and to others like it. Legal experts say the court’s decision, though, may still have wide-ranging implications for the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and its power over future housing projects across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under CEQA, noise is considered a form of pollution but had previously been considered in cases regarding concert venues or industrial sites, for example. This suit is the first to argue that noise generated by future residents is a form of environmental pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2023, an appellate court agreed and ruled that UC Berkeley needed to go back to the drawing board to consider alternative sites for both the new housing at People’s Park and the housing being built elsewhere on campus and that it needed to assess the impact of potential noise from future residents on the surrounding neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11971915 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-LEV-MARCUS-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“This case, to me, presents such a stark violation of CEQA,” said Thomas Lippe, an attorney for the two plaintiffs. “Some people might have been surprised by [the appellate court’s] noise ruling, but the alternative location ruling, it’s really just black letter law. You have to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s legislators disagreed. 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Primarily because the cost of housing is exorbitant in San Francisco and the cost of housing is exorbitant simply because there just isn’t enough of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration launched the review in August of 2021, noting that San Francisco has the longest timelines in the state for approving housing projects and among the highest housing and construction costs. The city also received the most complaints about potential violations of state housing laws of any California jurisdiction, nearly double the next city’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s affordability crisis is one of our own making,” Newsom said in an email to KQED. “The decisions we made limited the creation of housing we need. Nowhere is this fact more evident than in San Francisco. This report is an important first step to address the decades of issues that have held back San Francisco’s ability to build more housing. City leaders have come to the table to work with us on addressing these issues and [to] implement solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s report spells out 18 actions the city must take and a specific timeline for completing them. A series of laws passed in recent years gives state officials more power to force local jurisdictions to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco takes more than 10 months longer than the next-slowest jurisdiction to give the green light to build a house. 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That process can be dragged out further because San Francisco law allows additional time for appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neill said many of these local laws were written to encourage the proliferation of dense housing. But over the years, they have done the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco actually has comparatively more land zoned for dense housing than a lot of the other jurisdictions in California I’ve studied,” she said. “So the local law is both written in a way to try to say we want to welcome people, we want to have multifamily housing, and yet it’s written in a way to make the process so onerous, so unpredictable, it effectively blocks the development of multifamily housing. And that has huge implications for how inclusive San Francisco truly can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But changing discretionary policies works, the report states. 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