California Environmental Quality Act: transportation impact mitigation: Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Program.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not specify the exact criteria for determining how much money should be paid per vehicle mile traveled.

California Environmental Quality Act: Transportation Impact Mitigation

This bill allows projects that need to reduce their impact on transportation under CEQA to pay money into a fund instead, which will help build more housing near transit stations.

What This Bill Does

• Allows projects to contribute an unspecified amount of money for each vehicle mile traveled to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund if they are required to mitigate transportation impacts under CEQA.
• Requires the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to update the price per vehicle mile traveled based on specified factors, at least once every three years starting July 1, 2029.
• Makes contributions available for funding developments located in the same region as defined by the Legislature's appropriation, with preference given to certain projects.

Who It Names or Affects

• Developers who need to reduce their transportation impact under CEQA
• The Department of Housing and Community Development
• People living in areas near transit stations where new housing developments are built

Terms To Know

Environmental Impact Report (EIR)

A report that explains how a project might affect the environment.

Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Program

A program to help build more housing near transit stations.

Limits and Unknowns

• The exact amount of money developers need to pay is not set yet.
• It's unclear how much the fund will grow and what specific projects it can support until the Legislature appropriates funds.

Official Summary Text

AB 1244, as amended, Wicks.
California Environmental Quality Act: transportation impact mitigation:
Transit­Oriented
Transit-Oriented
Development Implementation Program.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.
Under existing law, the
Transit–Oriented
Transit
-Oriented
Development Implementation Program is administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide local assistance to developers for the purpose of developing higher density uses within close proximity to transit stations as provided. Existing law, establishes the
Transit–Oriented
Transit
-Oriented
Development Implementation Fund and, to the extent funds are available, requires the department to make loans for the development and construction of housing development projects within close proximity to a transit station that meet specified
criteria.
This bill would authorize a project, to the extent that the project is required to mitigate transportation impacts under CEQA, to satisfy the mitigation requirement by electing to contribute an
unspecified
amount of
money for each vehicle mile traveled
money, at a price per vehicle mile traveled, as determined by the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation,
to the
Transit­Oriented
Transit
-Oriented
Development Implementation Fund for the purposes of the
Transit­Oriented
Transit-Oriented
Development Implementation
Program. The
Program, as provided. The bill would require the office, on or before July 1, 2029, and at least once every 3 years thereafter, to update the price per vehicle mile traveled based on
specified factors.
The
bill would require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the contributions to be available to the department to fund developments located in the same region, as defined, with preference given to specified projects.
The bill would require the department to, for each award, confirm the estimated reduction in vehicle miles traveled, as provided, and would require the department to post specified information on its internet website.

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