Like many of the latest attempts to discredit the growing public/private movement to modernize the California Environmental Quality Act, the recent Viewpoint in The Recorder rests on a number of flawed premises and simple misstatements (“Attempt to Gut CEQA is Misguided,” Nov. 30).
The CEQA modernization movement is a broad-based coalition including a wide variety of public and private stakeholders. The movement is motivated by a growing number of court decisions and lawsuits that have stopped or substantially delayed even the most beneficial projects such as public projects and infill developments. According to a recent analysis by Holland & Knight, out of the 95 published appellate and state Supreme Court decisions issued between 1997 and 2012 where a CEQA lawsuit challenged the adequacy of a project’s environmental impact report, or EIR, 59 percent were infill development projects, 36 percent were public works projects and 20 percent were public infrastructure projects.
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