And as I drove home from the bill signing ceremony last summer, I called a land use attorney and said, “Be honest—will this actually make a difference?” He told me, “Buffy, I’m literally rewriting all my applications right now to use AB 130.”
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It seemed like an insurmountable task to try to reform CEQA. To be honest, some of the people closest to me cautioned me not to take on this fight. But my job as a legislator is not to just pass bills for the sake of it—it’s to deliver real results to Californians.
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For too long, our landmark environmental quality act had been used to stop housing development, even where it is the most environmentally friendly to build and even when Californians are faced with a shortage of 2.5 million homes.
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