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Draft CEQA Standards Aim to Relax Parking Rules
CEQA Standards Require Projects to Provide Adequate Car Parking. However, that May Change.
January 22, 2009
LA Times: State Should Act to Save Transit Funding
An editorial in today's Los Angeles Times takes the Governor, the Democratic-controlled legislature, and pretty much everyone involved in the dramatic showdown in state government to task for their role in stripping transit funding in the proposed budgets that are floating around Sacramento. Sounding more like Kymberleigh Richards or Bart Reed than the flagship newspaper for the Car Culture Capital of America, the Times doesn't pull punches as it breaks down the issue.
January 12, 2009
Gov. Writes to Obama: Stimulate Economy by Undercutting NEPA
Villaraigosa, Schwarzenegger and Other Leaders Celebrate Opening of 101-405 Interchange
January 7, 2009
Lowenthal Won’t Introduce New Container Fee Legislation
An angry State Senator Alan Lowenthal (D-LB) vowed yesterday to continue fighting for clean air, but won't be re-introducing legislation next year that would place a container fee on all freight using the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland to raise funds for clean air initiatives. In a statement released to the press, Lowenthal blamed a Governor more interested in doing the bidding of multi-national corporations and Republican Vice-Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin than in protecting thousands of Californian families from dangerous air pollutants.
October 2, 2008