Perspective
Mar. 25, 2011
The Changing Face of the California Environmental Quality Act
The absence of meaningful guidance has congested our ability to measure the environmental impact of local projects. By Ed Casey of Alston & Bird.
In 1970, the California Environmental Quality Act (known as CEQA) was enacted by the Legislature to ensure that public agencies fully consider and mitigate to the extent feasible the environmental impacts of development projects before approving or carrying out such projects. Over time, CEQA became a tool for local groups to raise a variety of environmental complaints, usually focused on more local issues such as traffic, noise and visual impacts.
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