NICO SAVIDGE/Berkeleyside伯克利的两个住房项目利用一项强大的州计划将自己豁免于当地劳工强制令，这引发了一项新法律，禁止未来的开发遵循他们的剧本。
NICO SAVIDGE/Berkeleyside Two Berkeley housing projects that used a powerful state program to exempt themselves from local labor mandates have inspired a new law barring future developments from following their playbook.
州长加文·纽瑟姆（Gavin Newsom）周三签署了州参议员杰西·阿雷金（Jesse Arreguín）的一项法案，要求大型开发项目符合当地劳工标准，例如阿雷金（Arreguín）担任市长时倡导的伯克利法令，该法令要求大型项目的建筑商为工人提供学徒计划和医疗保险。
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill from state Sen. Jesse Arreguín requiring that large developments comply with local labor standards — such as the Berkeley ordinance Arreguín championed as mayor that mandates builders of major projects provide apprenticeship programs and health care coverage to workers.
该法令于2024年生效，得到了建筑行业工会的支持，他们认为该法令将提供职业培训，以增加建筑劳动力，并确保从事危险工作的工人在受伤时获得保险。开发商对此表示反对，称这些规定增加了数百万美元的新成本，并可能使项目的建设成本过于昂贵。
The ordinance, which went into effect in 2024, was backed by unions in the building trades who argued it would provide job training to boost the construction workforce and ensure workers who do dangerous jobs have coverage if they are injured. Developers opposed it, saying the mandates add millions of dollars in new costs and can make projects too expensive to build.
Laconia Development和Collab Home公司声称，他们可以豁免其项目--位于大学大道2029年的一个23层开发项目。以及位于杜兰特大道2425号的一栋20层建筑，分别--由于加州的“密度奖金”法，从劳工强制令中获得。
The companies Laconia Development and Collab Home asserted they could exempt their projects — a 23-story development at 2029 University Ave. and a 20-story building at 2425 Durant Ave., respectively — from the labor mandate because of California’s “density bonus” law .
如果开发商在其项目中纳入一定比例的经济适用房，该法律允许他们绕过某些地方法规。它通常用于让开发项目超出高度限制等物理法规，但该法律还允许建筑商申请豁免其他可能增加成本的当地要求。除了医疗保险和学徒要求外，Collab Home还利用密度奖金免除了加州大学伯克利分校附近南区主要项目向工人支付现行工资的要求。
That law lets developers bypass certain local regulations if they include a share of affordable housing in their project. It’s commonly used to let developments exceed physical regulations such as height limits, but the law also allows builders to claim exemptions from other local requirements that might increase their costs. In addition to the health coverage and apprenticeship requirement, Collab Home also used the density bonus to exempt itself from a requirement that major projects in the Southside neighborhood near UC Berkeley pay workers a prevailing wage.
阿雷金和伯克利法令的其他支持者指责开发商正在利用密度奖金法中的“漏洞”来绕过劳工标准。伯克利市议会成员今年早些时候不情愿地批准了这些项目。
Arreguín and other supporters of Berkeley’s ordinance charged that the developers were exploiting a “loophole” in the density bonus law to bypass the labor standards. Members of the Berkeley City Council reluctantly approved the projects earlier this year.
Arreguín撰写的法律SB 1383收紧了这一漏洞，但并没有完全堵住它：它阻止项目高度至少85英尺的开发商申请劳工标准的密度奖金豁免。伯克利的规定适用于小型项目（至少50，000平方英尺的项目），这意味着许多中型开发项目可以继续利用这笔奖金来避免该市的医疗保健和学徒要求。
The law Arreguín authored, SB 1383, tightens that loophole but doesn’t close it entirely: It blocks developers whose projects are at least 85 feet tall from claiming density bonus exemptions from labor standards. Berkeley’s mandate applied to smaller projects — those of at least 50,000 square feet — meaning many mid-size developments could continue using the bonus to avoid the city’s health care and apprenticeship requirements.
该法律也不会影响促使其实施的两个项目，因为它们已经获得了许可。
The law also won’t affect the two projects that prompted it, since they have already been granted permits.
阿雷金周三在一份声明中写道：“SB 1383确保增加住房供应不会以牺牲工人健康和安全、高薪工作或建筑质量为代价。”这个故事最初由伯克利赛德出版，并通过与美联社的合作分发。
“SB 1383 ensures that increasing our housing supply does not come at the expense of worker health and safety, a good-paying job, or construction quality,” Arreguín wrote in a statement Wednesday. This story was originally published by Berkeleyside and distributed through a partnership with The Associated Press.