![]() Often, the reasons have little to do with protecting our environment. For all its good intentions and good outcomes, the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, has been increasingly exploited and perverted to slow or block everything from bike lanes and solar installations to affordable infill housing and homeless shelters. ![]() Examples are legion and often ludicrous, and the evidence presented in mountains of research indisputable. Untold volumes have been written about California’s signature environmental law and how over the past five decades it has metastasized through judicial activism and other means to become a signature obstacle to progress. 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.Īnd just as often, we have ignored them, denied them and been slow to act. ![]()
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