Legal Planet iconLegal PlanetSep 11, 2026

A warning to local planners in California

A lot of the debates over BACA, the Cal Chamber supported initiative to fundamentally change CEQA (Proposition 45 on the ballot) focus on the initiative's impacts on CEQA. From a local government and planning perspective, I would argue that far more important are the sweeping vested rights provisions in the initiative.

Share this story

Send the public story page.

Useful takeaways from this story.

A lot of the debates over BACA, the Cal Chamber supported initiative to fundamentally change CEQA (Proposition 45 on the ballot) focus on the initiative's impacts on CEQA.

From a local government and planning perspective, I would argue that far more important are the sweeping vested rights provisions in the initiative.

As I noted … Continue reading "A warning to local planners in California"

Building the complete brief

The page is ready to read now. The fuller skim-friendly version will appear here automatically.

The useful part

A lot of the debates over BACA, the Cal Chamber supported initiative to fundamentally change CEQA (Proposition 45 on the ballot) focus on the initiative's impacts on CEQA. From a local government and planning perspective, I would argue that far more important are the sweeping vested rights provisions in the initiative. As I noted … Continue reading "A warning to local planners in California"

Details worth keeping

As I noted … Continue reading "A warning to local planners in California"

Keep reading in the app

Open the app view to save this story, compare related coverage, and continue from the same source.

Open in app