California Air Resources Board

Streamlines CEQA review for housing development projects that meet all but one eligibility criteria for specified CEQA exemptions. The bill also exempts from CEQA new agricultural employee housing projects, wildfire risk reduction projects, the State's climate adaptation strategy, day care centers, rural health clinics, food banks, advanced manufacturing facilities, high speed rail and passenger rail stations, certain community water system projects, and makes additional changes to existing CEQA exemptions. It also requires the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to map the eligible urban infill sites within every urbanized area or urban cluster in the state by July 1, 2027. The bill also excludes staff notes and internal agency communications from the administrative record that a lead agency must compile under CEQA when requested by a CEQA plaintiff or petitioner in an action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul certain acts or decisions of a public agency, with specified exceptions.

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