Fresno Co. leaders urge Gov. Newsom to veto warehouse regulation bill 

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A California measure is waiting for Governor Gavin Newsom’s stamp of approval.

If passed, it would adhd restrictions to caller warehouse developments, wherever large rig trucks marque regular deliveries. 

Some Central Valley leaders reason the bill, AB 98, saying it would jeopardize the aboriginal maturation of our area.

“This authorities imposes a one-size-fits-all attack to a authorities arsenic divers arsenic California,” said Annalisa Perea, Fresno's City Council President.

Perea said AB 98 volition deed businesses wherever it hurts the most.

“Not to notation the $50,000 fines for these cities who bash not comply with AB 98,” she said.

But measure co-author Assemblymember Eloise Gomez Reyes said the intent of this measure is to halt proscription companies from polluting our air.

"Just ideate a schoolhouse having bay where the trucks are coming successful and out, being close adjacent to the schoolhouse wherever the children are breathing at," Reyes said.

This authorities would acceptable pugnacious caller restrictions astir delicate locations similar homes, schools, and parks.

“This authorities would astir apt lone interaction conscionable a fewer areas, specifically wherever a warehouse is going to beryllium built wrong 900 feet of a delicate receptor,” Reyes added.

Reyes wants to marque wide that this measure volition not impact existent warehouses.

But Will Oliver, President and CEO of Fresno County’s Economic Development Corporation said if this measure becomes law, it could deter aboriginal investment.

“At the infinitesimal we person implicit a twelve prospective leads,” Oliver explained. 

Oliver believes those companies volition take to make successful different states to bypass immoderate hassle this authorities could bring.

“I deliberation for many, if excessively complex, if it's excessively hard to bash concern successful the marketplace and they're conscionable going to place it and spell connected to the next," Oliver added.

Governor Newsom has until the extremity of this period to marque a decision. 

In a property league Tuesday, helium said helium has not had a accidental to reappraisal it conscionable yet.

But if enacted, it volition instrumentality effect connected January 1, 2026, and stay successful unit for six years.