How Wine Country is Expediting EV Charging Station Permits via a statewide bill. Read the bill.

In 2015, California passed Assembly Bill 1236 that asks towns under 200,000 to provide for expedited permits for EV charging stations. 

What did AB 1236 require small cities to do to make more EV charging stations a reality?

  • provide a “submittal check list” for EV station applicants
  • applicant approval through the issuance of a non-discretionary permit such as a building permit
  • limit permit denials  to whether the EV station would have an “adverse impact upon the public health and safety.”

Sonoma Index Tribune | Sonoma City Council recharges EV station process

LOCAL TREND. An Ordinance to Create Designated Lanes for Ride Share? Oui.

Miami, FL is considering allowing ride share cars to be able to use the left shoulder on busy freeways.

Ride share could share the left shoulder with buses.

Creative approach for transportation seeks to solve these policy issues:

  • how to avoid adding more toll lanes
  • to reduce traffic by encouraging people to leave their cars ar home and use a ride share service

AP | Forget Lexus Lanes, Miami Could Open Shoulders to Uber, Lyft

Business TREND. Ride Share Drivers Double Time By Working for Self Driving Car Mapping Companies.

Lvl5 is paying ride share drivers to mount a smart phone to their dash to film their routes. 

Lvl5 believes for self driving cars to work their best, they require data updates daily.

Lvl5 is building HD maps that update daily.

Where does policy, legislture, regulators fit in? Whether HD mapping or LIDAR are the primary opartaing system for self driving cars and the standards that will be required.

Verge | This startup is using Uber and Lyft drivers to bring self-driving cars to market faster

Economic Impact of Ride Share on Airport Parking Revenue. 2 Reactions by Local Governments.

41% of airport, non-airline revenue, is parking revenue. The revenue has to be found somewhere. 

2 examples from cities:

  • Fresno upped the TNC pick up and drop off fee to $3
  • DFW deferred hiring and deferred technolgical upgrades

Government Technology | Airport Parking Takes Hit From Uber, Lyft

 

17 States Address Data Security and Self Driving Cars. 1 State Declares the Data Private. What you need to know:

17 States have laws concerning when self driving car data can be accessed.

The 17 states are: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington

Only North Dakota refers to the self driving car data as private data.

Bryan Cave LLP | Data Privacy Issues of Self-Driving Vehicles

Regulatory Trend. How one state is directing charging stations

State: Minnesota

How is Minnesota trying to direct charging stations for EV cars? By guiding private investment

What state action furthered the guiding of private investment?

  • MN partnered with WI, IL, IN, MI and the city of Detroit to designate a stretch of Interstate 94 the “Great Lakes Zero Emission Corridor”
  • the Zero Emission Corridor led to MN DOT erecting signs highlighting nearby electric charging options.

Star Tribune | With more electric cars coming, Minnesota officials consider charging network

2 Steps for a West Coast Rail to Condemn Land via 3rd party.

Step One: Have a need for eminent domain.

Background:  

  • CalTrain on the San Francisco Penninsula is modernizing. 
  • To modernize, CalTrain needs to acquire land in certain areas. CalTrain isn’t using eminent domain.

Step Two: Find an entity that can use emiment domain.

What entity is using eminent domain for CalTrain? San Mateo Transit District.

San Mateo Daily Journal | Caltrain may take private land