Law Practice
Aug. 15, 2013
Rethinking CEQA
CEQA has evolved into an expensive, inefficient and burdensome mechanism for maintaining the physical "status quo."
The California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, recently had been enacted when I entered law school in 1971. In my 39 years of practice as a land use and environmental lawyer, little in the fundamentals of CEQA's scheme has altered, although much of the state's landscape, demographics, socioeconomics, regulatory regimes and fiscal infrastructures have.
A thorough re-examination and evaluation of CEQA's premises now are in order. This is not because CEQA has not done a good job...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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