Implementation of AB 1616 Cottage Food Facilities in Residential Areas
Many local governments are in the process of approving ordinances to implement the planning and zoning provisions of AB 1616, which goes into effect January 1, 2013. AB 161...
The legislature ended its two-year session on Friday, August 31st.
A number of gut and amended measures turned up the last few weeks of session, and a number of other bills saw extensive amendments with little time for review or chance for ...
Hello APA California Members:
The National Research Council recently released a study about sea-level rise on the West coast as well as a video.
As more and more states are incorporating projections of sea-level rise into coastal planning...
The Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection (DLRP), is hosting a scoping workshop to discuss the possible adoption of regulations needed to implement provisions of SB 618 – Wolk, Local government: Solar‐use easement....
The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) is pleased to announce that it has released a revised draft of updates to the CEQA Guidelines addressing streamlining for infill development pursuant to SB 226 (Simitian, 2011).
Many ...
The California Natural Resources Agency, California Emergency Management Agency and California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) seek feedback on the newly released draft Adaptation Policy Guide (APG). The APG provides a...
APA California Legislative Update – November/December
BY SANDE GEORGE, APA CALIFORNIA LOBBYIST
STEFAN/GEORGE ASSOCIATES
LEGISLATURE RETURNING IN JANUARY
All has been quiet at the Capitol while legislators are on winter interim and waiti...
The Governor decided to veto AB 1220 on Sunday – the last day he was able to take action on a bill. This bill was modeled after AB 602 from last year, which was also vetoed by then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. While it was vetoed last year,...
