Daily Business Report: Monday, July 28 2025
Sacramento Report: How CEQA Reforms Will Impact Homebuilding in San Diego
By Deborah Sullivan Brennan | Voice of San Diego
For 55 years, environmentalists have used the California Environmental Quality Act as a shield against habitat destruction and pollution.
Developers say some groups have wielded it as a weapon to kill housing construction, factories or transportation projects.
Last month the state legislature updated the law to expedite home-building and other projects ranging from daycare centers to manufacturing.
Enrollment at San Diego’s District-Run Schools Dropped But Shot Up at Charters
By Jakob McWhinney | Voice of San Diego
When Heather Higginson Santana’s son Tiago was young, he attended a district-run public school where he received special education services. The classroom experience felt chaotic to Tiago. He would get over stimulated or anxious and fall behind. To catch him up, his teachers would pull him out of class to work with him.
“But every time they pulled him out, he was missing another assignment. I thought, how is he ever going to catch up?” she said.
So, she enrolled her son at Dimensions Collaborative, a public charter school that works to help create personalized learning plans for parents who want the flexibility of homeschooling.
California homeowners will have to fund half of high-risk insurer’s $1 billion ‘bailout’
By Levi Sumagaysay | CalMatters
After saying it would run out of funds by March, California’s last-resort fire insurance provider will impose a special charge of $1 billion on insurance companies — which will in turn pass the costs along to homeowners — the first such move in more than three decades.
The state Insurance Department today approved a request from the provider, the FAIR Plan, to impose the charge and ensure it stays solvent as it covers claims from victims of the Los Angeles County fires, the department said in an order by Commissioner Ricardo Lara.
Most California home and fire insurance customers will see temporary fees added to their insurance bills as part of the charge, known as an assessment — marking the first time insurance companies will have imposed an assessment directly on customers.
