By Bob Walsh
Gavin Newsom, governor of the formerly great state of
California, got what he wanted to sign the budget bill. The legislature
did some tweaks to the California Environmental Quality Act which will
allow significantly cheaper and faster building of housing in CA as it
will not cut out a lot of the environmental review of virtually ANY new
construction project in CA.
On
the NOT WONDERFUL side it specifically included a gimmie for the
so-called California High-Speed Rail Authority which will now be able to
evade the CEQA review of it's ongoing money pit project. Fortunately
both the feds and now the state are preparing to largely defund the
project. The new CA budget bill takes away the guaranteed $1 billion
for the project from the state this year. Since Trump has already said
he is totally zeroing out federal funding for the project the damn thing
might now die a richly deserved death.
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