Broad CEQA reforms are needed, not just selective CEQA carve-outs

In March, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, introduced a new bill aimed at increasing housing density in California over the objections of cities that have resisted it.
Six weeks earlier, Wiener’s attempt to densify neighborhoods near transit and jobs, Senate Bill 50, had been defeated. His new bill, Senate Bill 902, would have allowed construction of duplexes, triplexes and fourplex residential units “by right,” that is, overriding local zoning rules that prohibit the