Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Governor Greenhouse

Draft CEQA Standards Aim to Relax Parking Rules

By Damien Newton | | 3 Comments
CEQA Standards Require Projects to Provide Adequate Car Parking.  However, that May Change. Recently, Governor Schwarzenegger has come under fire for calling on President Obama to relax environmental rules to help stimulate the economy.   However, new proposed environmental standards may finally be changing the way the government looks at transportation and development.  Anytime a […]

LA Times: State Should Act to Save Transit Funding

By Damien Newton | | 3 Comments
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 […]

California, Los Angeles, and the Stimulus

By Damien Newton | | No Comments
With news out of Washington that the Obama administration’s federal stimulus plan isn’t going to be passed anytime in the next couple of weeks, our state and local political leaders now have the time to re-think their stimulus lists while the political drama unfolds in Washington, D.C. At the state level, CALPIRG took its shot […]

Gov. Writes to Obama: Stimulate Economy by Undercutting NEPA

By Damien Newton | | 6 Comments
Villaraigosa, Schwarzenegger and Other Leaders Celebrate Opening of 101-405 Interchange Yesterday, Governor Schwarzenegger released a letter he wrote to President-Elect Obama asking the incoming president to make some policy changes that would help stimulate the economy.  Anyone that’s felt that we’re to hard on the Governor may change their mind when they read some of […]

Write Governor, Legislature to Stop Raid on Transit Funds

By Damien Newton | | 1 Comment
As Governor Schwarzenegger continues his quixotic quest to reduce the state’s Greenhouse Gases without reducing the number of cars that travel California’s car choked freeways, the newest state budget continues what is now a more than yearly tradition of robbing transit funds to help balance the out-of-control spending in other parts of the state budget. […]

Transform CA Opens Sacramento Office

By Damien Newton | | 1 Comment
Transform California, formerly the Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition, is opening a California office to better lobby state officials and hold them accountable for their transportation misdeeds.  While a Bay Area based group isn’t going to be helpful in getting everything we need in Southern California, there is something to be said for […]
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