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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 852
Author: Dickinson (D), et al.
Amended: 9/12/13 in Senate
Vote: 21
PRIOR VOTES NOT RELEVANT
SUBJECT : California Environmental Quality Act
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill is a clean-up measure to SB 743 (Steinberg)
of the current legislative session to revise a portion of the
bill that establishes a new California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA) exemption for a residential, mixed-use, and employment
center project, including any subdivision or zoning change, that
meets specified conditions, to clarify the project "and specific
plan" are consistent with the general use designation, density,
building intensity, and applicable policies specified for the
project area in either a sustainable communities strategy or
alternative planning strategy adopted pursuant to SB 375
(Steinberg, Chapter 728, Statutes of 2008).
ANALYSIS : Requires, under CEQA, a lead agency, as defined, to
prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of,
an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to
carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the
environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that
the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a
lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a
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project that may have a significant effect on the environment if
revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and
there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised,
would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA
establishes a procedure by which a person may seek judicial
review of the decision of the lead agency made pursuant to CEQA.
This bill is a clean-up measure to SB 743 (Steinberg) of the
current legislative session to revise a portion of the bill that
establishes a new CEQA exemption for a residential, mixed-use,
and employment center project, including any subdivision or
zoning change, that meets specified conditions, to clarify the
project "and specific plan" are consistent with the general use
designation, density, building intensity, and applicable
policies specified for the project area in either a sustainable
communities strategy or alternative planning strategy adopted
pursuant to SB 375.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local:
No
RM:d 9/12/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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