https://calwatchdog.com/2015/07/09/ca-housing-becomes-political-football/ Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:42:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://calwatchdog.com/2015/07/09/ca-housing-becomes-political-football/#comment-117288 Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:42:40 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=81539#comment-117288 Almost anyone can file a CEQA lawsuit against any new development EIR they dislike. Plaintiffs win half of the lawsuits they file, and when they lose they do not pay the defendants’ legal fees. Whereas, plaintiffs get their legal fees paid by losing defendants. Petty, obsessional, partisan, arbitrary, capricious, myopic, sentimental, litigious, narcissistic, non-scientific and radical-green eco-group motivations too often prevail in CEQA issues. And, project delays and expenses only accumulate as planning agency and environmental groups pile on precedent, yet gratuitous, mitigation measures.
The CEQA EIR process has become a government-sanctioned playground for trivial lawsuits, environmentalist exploitation, political patronage and pageantry. CEQA has been amended hundreds of times, mostly by partisan “green” special interests. Sadly, reform of CEQA with more objective and rational provisions has not succeeded.
Los Angeles Ecopolitics Examiner

]]> https://calwatchdog.com/2015/07/09/ca-housing-becomes-political-football/#comment-117245 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:29:20 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=81539#comment-117245 Comrades….even a tony 450 sq. ft. loft in the red lights capital of California Irvine is over……

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