Bill > AB2552

This bill amends the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to provide a new option for developers to mitigate significant transportation impacts, specifically those related to vehicle miles traveled (VMT), which refers to the total distance traveled by vehicles. Under CEQA, projects that may significantly affect the environment must have their impacts mitigated. This bill allows a lead agency, the government body overseeing the environmental review, to consider a contribution to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund as full and complete mitigation for a project's VMT impact. This fund supports affordable housing or related infrastructure projects that are designed to reduce VMT, such as those located near public transit or in areas with good walkability. The bill clarifies that this is an optional mitigation strategy and does not prevent the use of other methods, and it also outlines priorities for how funds from this program will be awarded. The bill declares itself an urgency statute, meaning it takes effect immediately, to ensure that necessary guidance for this new mitigation approach can be developed by its July 1, 2026 deadline.

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