Separately from the housing construction exemptions:
The new (changes to CEQA) exempts nine types of projects from environmental reviews: child care centers, health clinics, food banks, farmworker housing, broadband, wildfire prevention, water infrastructure, public parks or trails and, notably, advanced manufacturing.
An oddly specific list, that...
Particularly, the definition of "advanced manufacturing" seems to be exploitable.
According to the new law's definition of "advanced manufacturing" https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-prc/division-16/chapter-1/article-1/section-26003/
Taking the inclusion of "additive manufacturing" for example... Asbestos is arguably an additive, so are BPAs, and so forth...
"Additive manufacturing," according to a quick Google, actually means 3D printing, but the letter of the law...