Recent Streetsblog LA posts about CEQA

Can High-Density Housing Solve Our Regional Housing Crisis? The Answer: It’s Complicated

By Jason Islas | Aug 28, 2015 | 12 Comments

Southern California Public Radio affiliate KPCC, in partnership with the Milken Institute, assembled a panel of experts Wednesday night to answer the question: can high-density housing solve the housing crisis currently facing L.A. County and California? For those who have been following news about the crippling housing supply crisis in our region, it may not […]

Replacing LOS: Experts Debate How CA Should Measure Transpo Impacts

By Melanie Curry | Nov 7, 2014 | 13 Comments

California planning experts continue to debate how to most effectively measure transportation impacts in a way that will foster smarter growth, after the state abandoned the car-centric metric known as Level of Service (LOS). The acronym-laden process of measuring transportation under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) may be complex and wonky, but it’s certainly important. In […]

Replacing LOS: CA Hones Details on Its New Transportation Planning Metric

By Melanie Curry | Oct 8, 2014 | 2 Comments

Agreeing on a new way to measure transportation impacts — and not just delays for drivers — is no simple task for California’s planning policymakers. The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) is fine-tuning its proposal to replace Level of Service, the metric recently ditched by the state which focused exclusively on car delays, […]

California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update

By Melanie Curry | Aug 8, 2014 | No Comments

Here is Streetsblog’s weekly highlight of California legislation related to sustainable transportation. The legislature just came back from its August recess and spent the week catching up on its to-do list. The next few weeks will see a flurry of bills being voted on—and amended—before the session deadline on August 31. LOS gone from CEQA: Big […]

California Has Officially Ditched Car-Centric ‘Level of Service’

By Damien Newton and Melanie Curry | Aug 7, 2014 | 49 Comments

Ding, dong…LOS is dead. At least as far as the state of California is concerned. Level of Service (LOS) has been the standard by which the state measures the transportation impacts of major developments and changes to roads. Level of Service is basically a measurement of how many cars can be pushed through an intersection […]

The DOGGR Days of Summer: DOGGR Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Fracking Regulations

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 9, 2014 | 5 Comments

It’s that time of year again. Time for the Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), the agency tasked with regulating the Oil & Gas industry, to once again skip the home to one of the largest urban oil fields in the U.S. on its listening tour. The occasion? DOGGR is seeking public comment […]

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