Oxnard-- The Housing Reimagined Housing Conference at the Oxnard Performing Arts Center concludes with retired land use planner and City of Ventura Councilman Carl Morehouse saying that AB32 was passed back when Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor.
Assembly Bill 32 is a law “that fights global warming by establishing a comprehensive program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sources throughout the state.”
“It said we were going to try and get our air quality standards in the State of California to the 1990 levels by 2020,” Morehouse said. “We’re already past 2020, and that didn’t work except for the help of the pandemic, which got it down for a short while on the commute. A lot of the air quality was tied to mobile sources, not stationary sources. I think almost every air quality district, particularly South Coast Management Air Quality District, which handles L.A., the inland empire, and Orange County. Our air quality district here had gone to every stationary source they could; dry cleaners, everybody to cut down on things.”
He said Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg came up with Senate Bill 375, which he said tried to address the jobs and housing imbalance.
“We had…
