This article examines California environmental legislation, such as the California Global Warming Solutions Act and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and how it will affect builders and real estate developers in the upcoming years. Though these businesses are not immediately identified as significant causes of the greenhouse gas emissions the California Global Warming Solutions Act was passed to mandate, land use decisions can have an impact on transportation, the primary source of emissions in California, ultimately affecting a project’s CEQA compliance.

Linda Bernhardt is Managing Director of the Land Use and Regulatory Affairs group of Loeb & Loeb LLP and can be reached at .

This article was first printed in the June 2008 edition of Urban Land Magazine. Permission for article reprint has been granted.