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Environmental

Jan. 9, 2016

Environmentalists sue Riverside County alleging its long-term development plan violates CEQA

The county failed to properly look at the impacts from new development, the loss of open space and agricultural land and air quality, suit claims.

By Fiona Smith
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Accusing Riverside County of encouraging more sprawl development in the coming decades, environmental groups sued on Thursday to overturn the county's recently approved long-term planning blueprint.

The county's update to its so-called general plan will result in loss of agricultural land and open space and fails to shoulder the region's responsibility toward meeting stat...

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