Opinion: Will California’s misused environmental law finally be reformed?
“Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it” is an old quip attributed — probably erroneously — to Mark Twain.
CEQA’s use, or misuse, as a weapon in the state’s perpetual battles over housing has been well documented. Opponents of housing projects in their neighborhoods use it to stall construction and labor unions use it to leverage developers into agreements to use union workers. The Legislature has been willing to exempt specific projects, such as sports arenas, from the CEQA process, as well as some narrow categories of housing. But the broad reform that CEQA’s critics say is necessary has long been a non-starter.Last year, the state Supreme Court decreed in a suit against the University of California that expanding the number of students admitted to UC Berkeley was an environmental impact that had to be considered under CEQA.
The plaintiff in that suit was a local organization calling itself Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, which alleged that having more students would degrade the community’s ambiance — very similar to the opposition of local groups to state-imposed housing quotas.
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