Monday, August 19, 2013

BIA Sues over Plan Bay Area

 

BIA sues over Plan Bay Area, the region's sweeping land use plan


 
Real Estate Reporter- Silicon Valley Business Journal
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Plan Bay Area just can't catch a break.
The region's top homebuilding trade group and an environmental group are separately taking aim at Plan Bay Area, the just-approved land-use plan that proposes building most new housing units in high-density, transit-oriented developments.
Building Industry Association Bay Area says in a suit filed Friday in Alameda County Superior Court that the plan does not accommodate the Bay Area's future housing needs and fails "to provide a realistic development pattern to accomodate residential growth."
And the Sierra Club, in partnership with Earthjustice and Communities for a Better Environment, said in a suit filed Monday that the plan doesn't do enough to support transportation infrastructure or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The plan's sponsors, Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, are named as defendants in both the challenges.
Those entities last month approved the sweeping plan, which spells out how much housing Bay Area cities need to provide in the coming years to keep up with population growth. Regions are required by a state law, called SB 375, to come up with the plans.
Plan Bay Area anticipates the region's population will grow from 7 million today to roughly 9 million by 2040. It calls for roughly 660,000 new housing units to be built in the region, 80 percent of which would be in high-density, multifamily, transit-oriented development projects.
In its suit, BIA Bay Area says the plan fails in two ways: It does not meet the requirements of SB 375 because it does not include enough new housing units. And the group charges Plan Bay Area's approval process violated provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act. The plan violates CEQA because the sponsors did not adequately describe the project or analyze alternatives adequately, among other reasons, according to a copy of the lawsuit.
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Nathan Donato-Weinstein covers commercial real estate and transportation for the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

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