With these high prices, the state has slowly been forced to confront the growing conflict between its need for more housing and the ways the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) impedes housing development.
But an environmental law passed in the 1970s for a radically different industrial economy, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), is now threatening to stall that engine ... When CEQA was ...
The SentinelEditorial Board has long advocated a comprehensive CEQA fix, because the 1970 law not only adds costs to most projects but allows any “stakeholder” to file a lawsuit to slow projects or gain costly concessions.