AB 2008,
as amended, Quirk. begin deleteRegional transportation plan: sustainable communities strategy: urban freight. end deletebegin insertCalifornia Environmental Quality Act: infill projects: goods movement.end insert
The California Environmental Quality Act requires 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. The act also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a 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.
end insertbegin insertThe act requires the Office of Planning and Research to prepare, develop, and transmit to the Natural Resources Agency, and the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to certify and adopt, guidelines for the implementation of the act by public agencies. The act requires the guidelines to include statewide standards for infill projects to promote specified goals and priorities.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would require the guidelines to be revised to include as a statewide standard for infill projects the goal of minimizing the impacts of goods movement on air quality, traffic, and public safety through the provision of dedicated loading and unloading facilities for commercial space.
end insertbegin insertBecause a public agency would be required to consider the above goal regarding goods movement for infill projects as required by the guidelines, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
end insertbegin insertThe California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
end insertExisting law requires certain transportation planning activities by designated regional transportation planning agencies, including development of a regional transportation plan. Certain of these agencies are designated by federal law as metropolitan planning organizations. Existing law requires metropolitan planning organizations to adopt a sustainable communities strategy, subject to specified requirements, as part of a regional transportation plan, which is to be designed to achieve certain targets established by the State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region.
end deleteThis bill would state the intent of the legislature to enact legislation that would require a sustainable communities strategy to include consideration of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the delivery of urban freight.
end deleteVote: majority.
Appropriation: no.
Fiscal committee: begin deleteno end deletebegin insertyesend insert.
State-mandated local program: begin deleteno end deletebegin insertyesend insert.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
begin insertSection 21094.5.5 of the end insertbegin insertPublic Resources Codeend insert
2begin insert is amended to read:end insert
(a) begin deleteOn or before July 1, 2012, the end deletebegin insertThe end insertOffice of
4Planning and Research shall prepare, develop, and transmit to the
5Natural Resources Agency for certification and adoption guidelines
6for the implementation of Section 21094.5 and the Secretary of
P3 1the Natural Resourcesbegin delete Agency, on or before January 1, 2013,end delete
2begin insert Agencyend insert shall certify and adopt the guidelines.
3(b) The guidelines prepared
pursuant to this section shall include
4statewide standards for infill projects that may be amended from
5time to time and promote all of the following:
6(1) The implementation of the land use and transportation
7policies in the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection
8Act of 2008 (Chapter 728 of the Statutes of 2008).
9(2) The state planning priorities specified in Section 65041.1
10of the Government Code and in the most recently adopted
11Environmental Goals and Policy Report issued by the Office of
12Planning and Research supporting infill development.
13(3) The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions under the
14California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5
15(commencing with Section 38500) of the Health and Safety Code).
16(4) The reduction in
per capita water use pursuant to Section
1710608.16 of the Water Code.
18(5) The creation of a transit village development district
19consistent with Section 65460.1 of the Government Code.
20(6) Substantial energy efficiency improvements, including
21improvements to projects related to transportation energy.
22(7) Protection of public health, including the health of vulnerable
23populations from air or water pollution, or soil contamination.
24(8) Minimization of the impact of goods movement on air quality,
25traffic, and public safety through the provision of dedicated loading
26and unloading facilities for commercial space.
27(c) The standards for projects on infill sites shall be updated as
28frequently as necessary to ensure the protection of the environment.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
30Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
31a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service
32charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or
33level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section
3417556 of the Government Code.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
36legislation that would require a sustainable communities strategy
37to include consideration of greenhouse gas emissions resulting
38from the delivery of urban freight.
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