The Los Angeles City Council signaled its support today for two conservation bills pending in Congress that would help preserve areas in the Santa Monica Mountains and San Gabriel National Recreation Area.
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The Santa Clarita City Council considered issues of the environment, housing and justice when it took positions on several pieces of state and federal legislation Tuesday night.
Council members cast their votes on the legislation as part of their agenda’s consent calendar, which features a variety of business items.
Of the four state Senate bills opposed by the council, two – SB 12 and SB 778 – seek to eat into local control of land use.
SB 12 proposes to use the very high fire hazard severity zone designation to restrict development in those areas.
A local government, like the city of Santa Clarita, wouldn’t be allowed to approve new residential construction or occupancy-increasing construction in very high fire hazard severity zones unless the city could show compliance with “wildfire risk reduction standards” established by the proposed law.
California is on track to increase access to nature for veterans. California Sens. Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein recently introduced the PUBLIC Lands Act, which would permanently safeguard more than one million acres of public lands and over 500 miles of rivers throughout California.
Gustavo Arellano, filling in for
Julia Wick, who’ll return later this week.
I’m writing from Orange County, from a cramped room in my house filled with so many books (including two copies of Carey McWilliams’ classic “Southern California Country: An Island on the Land”) that its sound-muffling qualities create a perfect place to record a podcast.
And wouldn’t you know it, I am.
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