74% of Californians back this summer's historic pro-housing CEQA reform law.
These groundbreaking changes are working to accelerate new projects and make housing more affordable for all Californians.
These groundbreaking changes are working to accelerate new projects and make housing more affordable for all Californians.
August 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
74% of Californians back this summer's historic pro-housing CEQA reform law.
These groundbreaking changes are working to accelerate new projects and make housing more affordable for all Californians.
These groundbreaking changes are working to accelerate new projects and make housing more affordable for all Californians.
I introduced CEQA legislation (SB 607) to avoid CEQA being used to stop new housing & make other smart changes to aspects of CEQA that turn it into a process nightmare that doesn’t always help the environment.
SB 607 will help create abundance of the things that make life better & more affordable:🧵
SB 607 will help create abundance of the things that make life better & more affordable:🧵
February 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I introduced CEQA legislation (SB 607) to avoid CEQA being used to stop new housing & make other smart changes to aspects of CEQA that turn it into a process nightmare that doesn’t always help the environment.
SB 607 will help create abundance of the things that make life better & more affordable:🧵
SB 607 will help create abundance of the things that make life better & more affordable:🧵
Sorry, we have to do a CEQA assessment before the repairs
September 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Sorry, we have to do a CEQA assessment before the repairs
Another CEQA works success story!
If you want to know the name of the NIMBY who has been blocking the repairs to the Santa Cruz wharf since 2016, her name is Gillian Greensite and she deserves the blame for what happened today
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The Wharf’s Controversy | Good Times
Why the city wants to upgrade the wharf, and why one group is fighting to maintain the status quo
www.goodtimes.sc
December 24, 2024 at 6:04 AM
Another CEQA works success story!
Here’s why the new CEQA exemption for infill housing is such a big deal:
July 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Here’s why the new CEQA exemption for infill housing is such a big deal:
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Lots of people are proposing goofy ideas to stop climate change, which have little scientific or technical merit.
What are some of your favorite goofball "solutions"?
What are some of your favorite goofball "solutions"?
March 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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holy shit California is about to fix the NIMBY scourge that is CEQA
this will finally destroy Ronald Reagan’s legacy
this will finally destroy Ronald Reagan’s legacy
HUGE news: the language from AB 609, our bill to create a broad, simple CEQA exemption for code-compliant housing projects in environmentally-friendly infill locations, is in the budget bill AB 130! leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNa...
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June 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
holy shit California is about to fix the NIMBY scourge that is CEQA
this will finally destroy Ronald Reagan’s legacy
this will finally destroy Ronald Reagan’s legacy
CEQA was used by NIMBYs to prevent bike lanes and never used to stop freeway expansion. How exactly did CEQA protect the environment?
July 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
CEQA was used by NIMBYs to prevent bike lanes and never used to stop freeway expansion. How exactly did CEQA protect the environment?
This is all wonky stuff & it’s super important. I’ve described CEQA as “the law that swallowed California.” CEQA applies so broadly — in many contexts having nothing to do with the environment — that it can undermine critical goals like climate action, housing, etc.
SB 607 helps rationalize CEQA.
SB 607 helps rationalize CEQA.
February 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is all wonky stuff & it’s super important. I’ve described CEQA as “the law that swallowed California.” CEQA applies so broadly — in many contexts having nothing to do with the environment — that it can undermine critical goals like climate action, housing, etc.
SB 607 helps rationalize CEQA.
SB 607 helps rationalize CEQA.
Why does CEQA keep doing this????
it's remarkable just how much worse the interest rate situation makes the housing crisis
my wife and I bought our house in 2013 and we have a 3.6% mortgage rate
if I plug 7.5% into the mortgage calculator our payment jumps over a thousand dollars a month
my wife and I bought our house in 2013 and we have a 3.6% mortgage rate
if I plug 7.5% into the mortgage calculator our payment jumps over a thousand dollars a month
September 25, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Why does CEQA keep doing this????
Now’s your chance to work, CEQA
August 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Now’s your chance to work, CEQA
SB 607 does 5 things:
1. SB 607 requires that an existing CEQA exemption removing infill projects from CEQA (Class 32) be strengthened & made fully usable. Bottom line, new development in existing urbanized areas, particularly housing, is environmentally sustainable & shouldn’t be subject to CEQA.
1. SB 607 requires that an existing CEQA exemption removing infill projects from CEQA (Class 32) be strengthened & made fully usable. Bottom line, new development in existing urbanized areas, particularly housing, is environmentally sustainable & shouldn’t be subject to CEQA.
February 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
SB 607 does 5 things:
1. SB 607 requires that an existing CEQA exemption removing infill projects from CEQA (Class 32) be strengthened & made fully usable. Bottom line, new development in existing urbanized areas, particularly housing, is environmentally sustainable & shouldn’t be subject to CEQA.
1. SB 607 requires that an existing CEQA exemption removing infill projects from CEQA (Class 32) be strengthened & made fully usable. Bottom line, new development in existing urbanized areas, particularly housing, is environmentally sustainable & shouldn’t be subject to CEQA.
My favorite CEQA case remains the state Department of Toxic Substances Control deciding that it had to delay remediation of lead contamination from an Exide lead recycling facility in thousands of houses in LA County to do a CEQA analysis. That’s all you need to know about CEQA, start to finish.
September 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
My favorite CEQA case remains the state Department of Toxic Substances Control deciding that it had to delay remediation of lead contamination from an Exide lead recycling facility in thousands of houses in LA County to do a CEQA analysis. That’s all you need to know about CEQA, start to finish.
this is a deranged take. infill housing is inherently environmentally friendly and CEQA just gave rich NIMBYs an avenue to file frivolous lawsuits to stop housing.
It’s great that infill housing is exempt from CEQA and if you’re mad about it, you have frankly lost the plot entirely
It’s great that infill housing is exempt from CEQA and if you’re mad about it, you have frankly lost the plot entirely
They gutted CA's landmark environmental policy.
And I will bet anyone $500 that in 5 years homelessness will not have been meaningfully reduced — and emissions and other dangerous pollution will have risen.
Any takers?
PS: RIP housing desegregation and construction labor protections. 💔
And I will bet anyone $500 that in 5 years homelessness will not have been meaningfully reduced — and emissions and other dangerous pollution will have risen.
Any takers?
PS: RIP housing desegregation and construction labor protections. 💔
I just enacted the most game-changing housing reforms in recent California history.
We're urgently embracing an abundance agenda by tearing down the barriers that have delayed new affordable housing and infrastructure for decades.
Let’s get building, California.
We're urgently embracing an abundance agenda by tearing down the barriers that have delayed new affordable housing and infrastructure for decades.
Let’s get building, California.
July 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
this is a deranged take. infill housing is inherently environmentally friendly and CEQA just gave rich NIMBYs an avenue to file frivolous lawsuits to stop housing.
It’s great that infill housing is exempt from CEQA and if you’re mad about it, you have frankly lost the plot entirely
It’s great that infill housing is exempt from CEQA and if you’re mad about it, you have frankly lost the plot entirely
impossible??!??? wheres my 10 CEQA lawsuits
September 25, 2026 at 11:28 PM
impossible??!??? wheres my 10 CEQA lawsuits
As I wrote in my own book, CEQA is used mostly as a weapon against environmentally friendly things like new transit, housing and bike lanes.
Most CEQA litigation is meant to drive up the cost of construction, in the hope that legal delays will make things too expensive to build. It often works.
Most CEQA litigation is meant to drive up the cost of construction, in the hope that legal delays will make things too expensive to build. It often works.
September 6, 2026 at 3:46 AM
As I wrote in my own book, CEQA is used mostly as a weapon against environmentally friendly things like new transit, housing and bike lanes.
Most CEQA litigation is meant to drive up the cost of construction, in the hope that legal delays will make things too expensive to build. It often works.
Most CEQA litigation is meant to drive up the cost of construction, in the hope that legal delays will make things too expensive to build. It often works.
Our cultural heritage is being destroyed before our very eyes. No historical board review, no CEQA evaluation, nothing!
Was going to finally check out La Sombrita but they removed it?! 😩
September 21, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Our cultural heritage is being destroyed before our very eyes. No historical board review, no CEQA evaluation, nothing!
In California, some wealthy person can hire a lawyer to file a CEQA lawsuit to stop building an apartment complex for effectively any reason.
virtually every main social ill we face right now is downstream from the fact that rich people have more money than they know what to do with. national security risk
Reversing citizens united too
March 19, 2026 at 7:21 PM
In California, some wealthy person can hire a lawyer to file a CEQA lawsuit to stop building an apartment complex for effectively any reason.
CEQA we need you for one last job
Partly, the AI people seem to assume AGI will somehow be able to build self-replicating general purpose robot factories and get especially handwavy about supply chains for them
September 11, 2026 at 3:57 PM
CEQA we need you for one last job
Napa County Supervisors Anne Cottrell and Liz Alessio lay out the case for SB 607 and CEQA reform by telling the story of a much-needed childcare facility that opponents nearly killed by abusing CEQA
California environmental law nearly killed a childcare facility in our community. Enough is enough
Why does CEQA give a few individuals de facto veto power over a project that a majority of the community wants and needs? SB607 would finally change that.
www.sfchronicle.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Napa County Supervisors Anne Cottrell and Liz Alessio lay out the case for SB 607 and CEQA reform by telling the story of a much-needed childcare facility that opponents nearly killed by abusing CEQA
CEQA strikes back
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
September 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
CEQA strikes back
CEQA abuse walked so that NEPA abuse could run.
Judge McFadden, a Trump appointee, rules that Biden violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it canceled construction of the border wall and ended Trump’s Remain In Mexico policy.
He holds that the presence of migrants damages the environment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
He holds that the presence of migrants damages the environment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 1, 2024 at 11:30 AM
CEQA abuse walked so that NEPA abuse could run.
CEQA is the law that swallowed CA. A developer who criticized CEQA for adding endless red tape then uses it to challenge a neighboring project.
When you give people a leverage tool, they’ll use it — unless you take it away. Let’s take it away & focus CEQA on actual climate action, not NIMBYism.
When you give people a leverage tool, they’ll use it — unless you take it away. Let’s take it away & focus CEQA on actual climate action, not NIMBYism.
Rick Caruso wants LA to build faster — just not near his property
Just two days after Caruso embarked upon a press tour touting his red-tape-slashing plan, his other LA mall sued the city to delay the construction of a major job center right next door
www.torched.la
February 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
CEQA is the law that swallowed CA. A developer who criticized CEQA for adding endless red tape then uses it to challenge a neighboring project.
When you give people a leverage tool, they’ll use it — unless you take it away. Let’s take it away & focus CEQA on actual climate action, not NIMBYism.
When you give people a leverage tool, they’ll use it — unless you take it away. Let’s take it away & focus CEQA on actual climate action, not NIMBYism.
Everybody's talking about the CEQA reform that just passed on California. I highly recommend this podcast with the architects of that reform:
The fight to build faster in California
Buffy Wicks and Scott Wiener explain how they're reforming CEQA, the California law that lets anyone with a lawyer delay housing projects for years.
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July 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Everybody's talking about the CEQA reform that just passed on California. I highly recommend this podcast with the architects of that reform: