CEQA rollbacks could pave the way for high-density housing in Los Gatos
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent signing of two bills limiting the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, could pave the way for more housing developments in Los Gatos, a town with a significant housing quota and a reputation for lagging on development applications. … [A]lmost all of the proposed projects in the town are infill and not in the Wildland Urban Interface, which would render them exempt from CEQA analysis. … According to the town’s Housing Element, around three-fourths of Los Gatos has a low vulnerability to pollution sources like ozone, particulate matter, toxic release, hazardous waste, groundwater threats and solid waste sites.
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