Opinion: Court ruling will make CEQA an even more potent tool to obstruct new housing construction [Opinion]
of the California Environmental Quality Act in 1970 was heralded as one more sign of the Golden State’s commitment to protecting the environment. The law was significantly more stringent than a landmark parallel federal measure that took effect earlier that year.
The last thing California needs is for the law to become an ever more potent weapon for NIMBYs and obstructionists.when the 1st District Court of Appeal blocked UC Berkeley’s plans to build a housing complex for 1,100 students and 125 formerly homeless people on UC-owned land near campus. The court sided with project opponents and said UC had “failed to assess potential noise impacts from loud student parties in residential neighborhoods near the campus.
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