The California Environmental Quality Act, known as CEQA, blocks housing and climate-friendly infrastructure. But the governor's recent reform falls woefully short.
Why is the governor trying to rush through complex legal and policy changes in a few weeks? The effort feels more like political theater than serious policymaking.” projects for which the courts are supposed to wrap up any legal challenges within 270 days. If a case takes longer to resolve and remains stuck in legal limbo, however, the governor’s bill provides no legal remedy.
Newsom proposed to mitigate this problem by excluding from the administrative record “internal communications” within an agency that are not presented to the final decision-makers. This was a baby step.that call themselves environmentalist. They asserted, confusingly, that the governor’s reform would make it “prohibitively expensive and difficult to … assemble an administrative record, making judicial remedy something only the rich can afford.
If you want to see what real reform looks like, look north. Washington state legislators voted overwhelmingly this year tourban housing project that conforms to a city’s general plan and zoning laws. Deep-green Oregon, meanwhile, never saw the need for a CEQA-like law. It adopted
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