The state’s signature environmental protection law affects a wide range of public land-use decisions, from approving low-income apartments to issuing oil well permits and creating new bike la…
As far as obscure-sounding government acronyms go, perhaps none carry more weight in California than CEQA.
After a state court last month ruled UC Berkeley violated the five-decade-old statute in its plans toGov. Gavin Newsomfor allowing the state to be “held hostage by NIMBYs” and vowed to help change the law. Scott Wiener, a Democratic state senator from San Francisco, told the Bay Area News Group he plans to introduce a bill “to deal with the specific problems this court case has created.”
Importantly — and controversially — the law also allows private residents and organizations to sue to force additional project analysis. Over the decades, state courts have issued rulings broadening the scope of the reviews. Sometimes, addressing the issues raised makes projects too expensive to continue.seizing on precedent to stall multifamily housing projects
“It’s a lead weight around the ankle of an otherwise important endeavor,” said Louis Mirante, vice president of public policy with the pro-housing Bay Area Council. “It’s an incredibly important moment and opportunity and place for informed decision-making and democratic engagement for how California is going to grow,” said Aruna Prabhala, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.that argued UC officials didn’t adequately analyze how much noise could be caused by the roughly 1,100 students who would move into the project planned for the school’s historic public park.
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