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Key Context: California universities have struggled to generate enough on-campus living spaces as the Legislature pressures them to enroll more students — particularly from within the state. The challenge captured national attention earlier this year, when a successful environmental lawsuit nearly forced University of California Berkeley to freeze its enrollment, slashing over 3,000 slots from planned admissions.
The Legislature quickly passed a workaround, making minor changes to the California Environmental Quality Act that formed the legal basis for the court challenge. But many provisions of CEQA — a law loathed by developers but supported by environmental groups and some cities — continued to apply to university housing.
Details: Newsom’s signature of state Sen. Scott Wiener’s (D-San Francisco) CA SB 866 (21R) Wednesday will exempt public college and university housing projects from CEQA, provided they meet a list of other labor and environmental requirements laid out in the bill. Projects for both staff and student housing will be covered, and the exemption will last until 2030 barring further action from the Legislature...
Source: https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2022/09/california-eases-environmental-requirements-for-university-housing-projects-00059350 and UCOP Daily News Clips.
Note 1: The bill listed in the Politico article - SB 866 - originally dealt with vaccine mandates and was not passed. It is possible that the bill enacted was a gut-and-amend of the vaccine bill.
Note 2: The governor has recently been signing housing construction bills in other contexts. You can see one such ceremony at the link below:
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https://ia601402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/dorm%20construction.mp3
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