The Keston Institutecolor> will continue to explore options for funding infrastructure, and has taken on the challenge of updating CEQA rules as well.
Since 2002, the USC Keston Institute for Infrastructurecolor> has worked with academics, policymakers, and practitioners to develop research and support behind rebuilding and expanding California’s crucial infrastructure. MIR is pleased to present an interview with Richard Little, who was named Director of the Keston Institutecolor> in December, about the Institute’s plans to inform the conversation over CEQA reform and the importance of looking at infrastructure from an integrated perspective.
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MIR has covered the work of the Keston Institute since its founding. As the incoming director, what do you see as your role and the Institute’s mission?
I perceive my role to be to try to inform the debate that is going on in California and also more broadly across the nation. Infrastructure is not just a California issue, but initially of course we will have a California focus. Our mission is to provide objective, factual information and policy assessments on infrastructure issues and to make these available as broadly as possible – to the administration and the Legislature in Sacramento, to local governments and area government organizations, and to the general public. We want our website to be a robust portal for information dissemination on these issues