Real Estate/Development
May 28, 2003
Legislators Take Sledgehammer to Minor Problem
BY JOEL B. MILLER Recently, Assemblywoman Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, proposed legislation that would prohibit developers statewide from hiring consultants directly to prepare environmental reports.
Recently, Assemblywoman Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, proposed legislation that would prohibit developers statewide from hiring consultants directly to prepare environmental reports.
AB406 is a sledgehammer approach to an easily correctable problem.
The genesis of the bill is actions taken by the developers of Newhall Ranch, a proposed 12,000-acre, master-planned community in the Santa Clarita Valley of Los Angeles...
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