Now imagine that your local city council refuses to make an exception for a certain developer and denies an application to put in a massive retail store because it violates the ordinance. It could happen. Now imagine that developer takes the city to court, and after a drawn-out lawsuit, the developer loses.
Nobody is sure.
The trade law that is being made today undercuts California's environmental sovereignty. Local land use laws are just one potential battleground under a new regime that pits international free trade agreements against state and local sovereignty. Similar scenarios could play out for state and local governments that try to buy emission-free fleet vehicles, or which prefer to buy recycled paper products, or which attempt to ban import of produce grown with certain pesticides. She has authored similar legislation, SB 1044, which would require a study of state labor laws. I hope to bring this a little higher in everybody's consciousness.