Opinion: Big Wins for CEQA Reform and Transit Housing—But Will They Matter in Places Like Davis?
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law sweeping reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and Senator Scott Wiener’s SB 79, a bill designed to streamline multifamily housing near transit, while California YIMBY celebrated the “historic victory” but observers note that local land use restrictions, such as Davis’s Measure J, remain the biggest barriers to housing production.
