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California Business Properties Association (CBPA)
Founded in 1972, CBPA serves as the legislative and regulatory advocate for individual companies as well as the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) California chapters, Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM), Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) California, California Downtown Association (CDA), and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), and CCIM of Northern California, making CBPA the recognized voice of the commercial, industrial, and retail real estate industries in California representing over 11,000 companies.
State Issues
***NEW*** AB 32 SCOPING PLAN BLASTED BY CA LEGISLATIVE ANALYSTAssembly Republican Leader Mike Villines (R-Clovis) and Assemblymember Roger Niello (R-Sacramento) asked the independent California Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) to report on the draft scoping plan of the Air Resources Board (CARB) for implementation of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (better known as AB 32).
The LAO's report on the AB 32 Scoping Plan is highly critical of almost every aspect of the plan. Here is a summary of the LAO's conclusions:
"We conclude that (1) the scoping plan’s overall emissions reductions and purported net economic benefit are highly reliant on one measure—the Pavley regulations, (2) the plan’s evaluation of the costs and savings of some recommended measures is inconsistent and incomplete, (3) Macroeconomic modeling results show a slight net economic benefit to the plan, but ARB failed to demonstrate the analytical rigor of its findings, (4) economic analysis played a limited role in development of scoping plan, and (5) despite its prediction of eventual net economic benefit, the scoping plan fails to lay out an investment pathway to reach its goals for GHG emissions levels in 2020"
The LAO's conclusions support the many issues and concerns raised by CBPA and many other business and taxpayer groups. You can read the full report by clicking here: CA Legislative Analyst's Office report on AB 32 Scoping Plan.
Read a news account of the LAO analysis here.