Article: Cities and counties weigh SB 375 strategies while rules evolve in long process.(insight)

SB 375 is now law. but another year and a half will pass before the California Air Resources Board adopts the follow-up numerical regional targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions. This puts California's cities and counties in a pretty big bind: How can they adopt plans for the future that will conform with the climate change law if they don't know what standard they are going to have to comply with?

The new law explicitly states that local plans do not have to conform with SB 375's provisions. But the practical matter is that because transportation funding and housing elements will be tied to SB 375. the locals don't want to get crosswise with their ...

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