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NAIOP Makes Headway With Emissions, Traffic Fee Legislation

SAN DIEGO-GlobeSt.com chats with NAIOP to learn the details on the progress of two major policy issues affecting commercial real estate developers and operators.

By Carrie Rossenfeld | Updated on July 18, 2012

SAN DIEGO-GlobeSt.com has learned details about how NAIOP’s local Legislative Affairs Committee and board of directors helped alter County legislation that impacts commercial real estate developers and operators, the bulk of the organization’s membership. Two major policy proposals that were recently discussed by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors were changed toward CRE executives’ favor due to the LAC and BOD’s actions: the Climate Action Plan and Traffic Impact Fee.

For months, the LAC worked with County staff on its proposed CAP—which had been passed by the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Schwarzenegger—to design a plan that met state standards for greenhouse-gas emission reduction thresholds without further stifling future development opportunities. This relationship led to a CAP that NAIOP widely supported, with the exception of the proposed GHG threshold for warehouse projects. NAIOP felt the threshold was infeasible for industrial developers and operators and would prohibit the construction of warehouses and other light industrial facilities as well as their operation.

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