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The proposed eight-story building behind the Santa Barbara Mission will undergo environmental review under a new state law that Governor Gavin Newsom signed on Saturday.
Senate Bill 158, a trailer bill, acts as “cleanup” to legislation passed earlier this year, according to Senator Scott Weiner of San Francisco and Representative Jesse Gabriel of the San Fernando Valley, who brought it to the State Senate and House floor, respectively…