AB 98 Webinar
In 2024, the California legislature enacted AB 98, which has the effect of significantly limiting the development of new logistics sites sitewide.
In 2024, the California legislature enacted AB 98, which has the effect of significantly limiting the development of new logistics sites sitewide. The bill was introduced just 3 days before the deadline for the California legislature to pass bills as a “gut and amend” bill without going through the normal legislative committee deliberative process. The bill’s primary features include, among others, prohibiting local agencies from approving new or expanded “logistics uses” that do not comply with new comprehensive, statewide standards, including siting criteria and design standards as well as additional standards that apply within a designated “warehouse concentration region” in the Inland Empire.
The bill also requires local agencies to update the circulation elements of their general plans to establish specific travel routes for the transport of goods and materials, avoiding sensitive land uses. Collectively, these requirements could dramatically limit the availability of sites for new or expanded logistics uses. In this program, Andrew Fogg, Co-Chair of Cox Castle’s Land Use and Natural Resources, will present an overview of some of the bill’s more significant requirements and its impacts on the development of new industrial logistics projects.
About the Instructors
Andrew Fogg is the Co-Team Leader of Cox, Castle & Nicholson’s Land Use and Natural Resources Team. Andrew has extensive experience in representing developers in the land use entitlement process and related areas, including all aspects of planning, zoning, and environmental review, in cities and counties throughout California.
Andrew represents developers and public entities in processing administrative land use actions, including the negotiation and approval of numerous entitlement documents, development agreements, owner participation agreements, disposition and development agreements, subdivision approvals, conditional use permits, variances, and zoning and general plan modifications related to various projects. Andrew has been actively involved in a myriad of projects, including urban infill mixed use projects, hospital and healthcare facilities, hospitality projects, master planned communities, residential and commercial condominium developments, commercial centers, and industrial developments.
As part of his entitlement practice, Andrew has advised clients on all aspects of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), including the use of various CEQA exemptions and ensuring the adequacy of project specific Environmental Impact Reports and Mitigated Negative Declarations.
