The Santa Cruz ordinance, which prohibited natural gas infrastructure in new buildings, was modeled after Berkeley’s. The city’s attorney analyzed the ruling and it was determined that,…
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“Eventually we’ll come back with another ordinance of some kind for changes to our building code that might try to get at some of the same goals that this natural gas prohibition ordinance was getting at,” said Matt VanHua, principal planner in the city’s Planning and Community Development Department, who helped prepare the staff recommendation. “That’s currently being worked on right now but we really don’t have any specific details about what that’s going to look like.
Still, she called the ruling just “a bump in road” and feels confident that there are alternatives, such as an electric-preferred ordinance, that don’t preempt federal law even as the appeals process plays out. Golder did vote to approve the natural gas prohibition during her first meeting as a councilmember in 2020, but said she didn’t want to seem disagreeable at the time, attempted to recuse herself, and claims to have not supported the move from the beginning.In a follow-up email to the Sentinel, Wise-West explained that reliability is a concern only during summer peak cooling times and the cooling demand increase is largely due to higher summer temperatures from climate change.
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