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Council of Infill Builders
2012 K Street
Sacramento, CA 95811

916-443-1033

December 5, 2018: The Council of Infill Builders are pleased to support Senate Bill 50 (Wiener) to reduce local restrictions on housing near major transit.

November 30, 2018: Board president Curt Johansen consulted and quoted in major new California Air Resources Board report documenting how the state’s major urban regions are not meeting their vehicle miles traveled targets under SB 375 (Steinberg, 2008).

October 2, 2018: The Council of Infill Builders applauds the passage of Assembly Bill 2923 (Chiu) to boost infill development around select BART rail transit stations in the San Francisco Bay Area. See our original support letter for more information.

August 8, 2018: The Council of Infill Builders is pleased to announce that Keith McCoy, President and a Founding Partner of UrbanMix Development, LLC, has joined the board of directors. Welcome Keith! See our media advisory, and more information can be found on our board of directors here.

July 10, 2018: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development touts our infill parking reduction law for affordable housing, AB 744 (Chau, 2015) and cites director Meea Kang’s work on the legislation, in its spring 2018 newsletter.

June 1, 2018: California’s First District Court of Appeal published Jensen v. City of Santa Rosa (Case No. A144782) after Monchamp Meldrum LLP submitted a letter on behalf of the Council of Infill Builders, which will discourage meritless challenges to infill projects based on noise impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

March 14, 2018: The Council of Infill Builders are pleased to submit this support letter for Assembly Bill 2923 by Assemblymember David Chiu, which will boost infill development around BART rail transit stations.

February 21, 2018: Mott Smith and Ethan Elkind support relaxing zoning restrictions on housing near transit in a Sacramento Bee op-ed, as proposed by Senate Bill 827 (Wiener).

January 9, 2018: The Council of Infill Builders are pleased to submit this support letter for Senate Bill 827 by Sen. Scott Wiener, which will significantly boost housing in transit-and job-rich cities by relaxing local restrictions on height, density and on-site parking.

December 4, 2017: Read our statement applauding the Governor’s Office of Planning & Research for finalizing guidelines to transition California from an outdated transportation metric privileging automobile traffic to one focused on reducing overall driving miles.

October 18, 2017: With a coalition of Los Angeles nonprofits and academics, we submitted a comment letter today to the City of Los Angeles Department of Planning to encourage greater reform of planned parking requirements in transit-oriented areas under re:code LA.

October 13, 2017: Today we submitted a coalition letter from environmental and real estate nonprofits across California to urge Governor Brown to finalize the long-overdue CEQA guidelines, as required by SB 743 (Sternberg, 2013). These guidelines will help ease environmental review for infill projects throughout the state.

See past news items on our press page.