Menifee officials explain to developers new traffic study rules required by the state
Menifee developers joined city planners and engineers to learn about the new traffic impact study requirements under California Senate Bill 743 in a virtual workshop conducted online Tuesday, April 21.The Menifee Community Development and Public Works Department hosted the workshop to explain to local developers and builders the new way the state is requiring developers to measure the traffic impact on the environment in their new projects to meet the goals set down by the California Environmental Quality Act.SB 743 requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to identify new metrics for identifying and mitigating transportation impacts within CEQA. As a result, former Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill written by former state Sen. Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento in 2013, wh