When ordinary Californians trying and failing to build something complain to the Legislature about the petty, nothing-to-do-with-the-environment constraints of the 50-year-old California Environmen…
When ordinary Californians trying and failing to build something complain to the Legislature about the petty, nothing-to-do-with-the-environment constraints of the 50-year-old California Environmental Quality Act, their elected representatives tell them to shut up and just swallow the red tape.
Bill Fulton, the urban planner and former mayor of Ventura, put it this way to the Los Angeles Times: “This is another example of what I call Swiss cheese CEQA. The Legislature doesn’t try to take a logical approach. Whenever they get upset about it, they punch a hole in it.” It’s not that we don’t empathize, after a fashion, with the concerns of lawmakers trying to get something built, although it must be said that fancy new offices for themselves somehow don’t rank for us up there with the desperately needed housing for regular folks that so often gets blocked by CEQA.
Rather than pushing for actual comprehensive reforms to the miserable status quo, both the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom have instead settled for piecemeal exceptions to CEQA, especially for the construction of sports arenas in the state, and occasionally for actually worthwhile projects, including much-needed student housing in California’s university towns.
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