CEQA cases involving UC Berkeley, Southern California housing projects show the need for fixes. Here’s how.
Like our changing climate and its many impacts on our communities, economy and environment; like the collapse of critical infrastructure; like the humanitarian homelessness crisis on our streets and the housing shortage driving it; like so many other slow-motion disasters that have befallen us, the warning signs have been unmistakably clear.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has loudly decried the court rulings. Legislators passed a quick and narrow fix to address the first one and pledged to do more. The second case might head for the state Supreme Court. Newspaper editorials almost universally have called for reform. The Little Hoover Commission government oversight agency is holding hearings on CEQA reform, and we’re hopeful it will produce meaningful and actionable recommendations.
Those who can’t afford to leave, many with lower incomes or from communities of color, are forced to pay exorbitant rents and denied the opportunity of homeownership. With CEQA abused to block housing in wealthy coastal cities and near job centers, millions have been pushed to the exurbs and beyond where they are forced into long, soul-sucking and polluting commutes that experts say are now undermining California’s ability to meet its own climate goals.
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