AB 2059: California Environmental Quality Act: transportation impacts: vehicle miles traveled: mitigation.

The bill aims to modify the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to address transportation impacts on the environment. The proposed changes would establish a 5% limit on the total cost of mitigation measures required to address significant transportation impacts as determined by the vehicle miles traveled metric. Mitigation measures exceeding this limit would be deemed economically infeasible. The bill also requires the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to develop criteria for determining the significance of transportation impacts, promoting the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the development of multimodal transportation networks. Additionally, the bill would require the use of vehicle miles traveled as a metric to measure transportation impacts.