California’s Senate Bill (SB) 743) is a piece of legislation that quietly changes the course of state environmental review. This Note analyzes California’s complicated history with environmental review in the form of the California Environmental Quality Act and past environmental review failures, and it considers SB 743’s two major attempts at reform and empowerment of municipal development in environmental litigation. While the bill is a first step toward needed reform, especially in its more nuanced understanding of environmental mitigation, its gerrymandered reduction of access to environmental litigation is a concerning restriction of complainants’ rights to seek court review.