The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development
(GO-Biz) recently launched
“The Permitting Olympics” in an effort to encourage local
governments to comply with streamlined approval requirements for
electric vehicle charging (EV) stations.
GO-Biz will be awarding permitting medals to jurisdictions that
have streamlined permits for EV charging stations, based on the
requirements of
AB 1236 (Chapter 598, Statutes of 2015). Medals will be
awarded county by county, based on all the jurisdictions within
the county as follows:
Counties with 100% of their region streamlined = Gold
Counties with 75% of their region streamlined = Silver
Counties with 50% of their region streamlined = Bronze
GO-Biz’s goal is for all counties to be awarded the Gold medal by
Earth Day, which will be on April 22, 2021. So far, three
counties have been awarded the Gold medal, four counties have
been awarded the Silver medal, and three counties have been
awarded the Bronze medal.
AB 1236 required jurisdictions to adopt an ordinance for an
expedited, streamlined permitting process for EV charging
stations and also required local agencies to adopt a checklist of
all requirements with which EV charging stations must comply to
be eligible for expedited review.
In February 2020, CSAC co-hosted an informational webinar with
the League of California Cities featuring a presentation from
GO-Biz on streamlined approval requirements for EV charging
stations to help jurisdictions better understand these
requirements pursuant to AB 1236.
CSAC encourages counties to review the
map GO-Biz has developed and published, which shows EV
charging station permit streamlining across the state and tracks
whether jurisdictions are in compliance with AB 1236.
If you have questions, please reach out to the GO-Biz Zero
Emission Vehicle team at zev@gobiz.ca.gov.
