California has many problems, but CEQA really is uniquely bad.
If I was Californian Emperor, I'd look at the 49 other states that get by without CEQA, and just copy the legislation from some state with a good track record on these issues.
If I was Californian Emperor, I'd look at the 49 other states that get by without CEQA, and just copy the legislation from some state with a good track record on these issues.
CEQA is a bad first draft of an environmental law, the definitions are bad, the logic is bad. And CEQA even protected things like level of service of traffic until recently, which greatly increased car traffic and pollution. For the era when it was passed, CEQA was probably good, and it has accomplished lots of good, but today it's causing as many problems as it seems to solve.