For City Council Meeting September 10, 2024
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: G. Michael Milhiser, Interim City Manager
AUTHOR: Tanya Williams, Assistant City Manager
Title
Request City Council to Approve a Letter Requesting Governor Newsom to Veto Assembly Bill 98.
Body
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council Approve a Letter Requesting Governor Newsom to Veto Assembly Bill 98.
BACKGROUND
Assembly Bill 98 (Carillo, Juan, Reyes) is a Planning and Zoning Law that sets forth various requirements relating to the review of development project permit applications and the issuance of development permits for specified classes of development projects. This bill, beginning January 1, 2026, would prescribe various statewide warehouse design and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments, as specified, including, among other things, standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. The bill would except from those design and build standards certain existing logistics use developments, proposed expansions of a logistics use development, and property currently in a local entitlement process to become a logistics use, under prescribed conditions. The bill would require a facility operator, prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy, to establish and submit for approval by a city, county, or city and county a truck routing plan to and from the state highway system based on the latest truck route map of the city, county, or city and county, as prescribed. The bill would require a facility operator to enforce the plan. The bill would provide for the revision of the plan in specified circumstances.
AB 98 passed through both houses at the very end of the legislative session in August of 2024. Currently, the bill is waiting for the Governor to either authorize or veto the bill. The deadline is September 30th.
The City of Rialto has previ...
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