Opinion: California environmental laws are essential to meet housing and climate goals [Opinion]
The landmark California Environmental Quality Act, which has been cynically maligned by the building industry, is an important tool for protecting the quality of life in California. It ensures the public’s right to participate in land-use decisions and holds public agencies accountable to the communities they serve. CEQA is no obstacle to housing projects that are planned properly and comply with state law.
Illegal projects put the public at risk for wildfire, gridlock, traffic, air pollution and accelerated climate change. They also threaten the quality of life for our communities and impede progress in confronting climate change. Moreover, ignoring CEQA at the project approval level invites avoidable and expensive construction delays.
The recent Junipers project in Rancho Peñasquitos is an example of irresponsible development. In May 2021, Sierra Club sent a letter to every member of the San Diego City Council detailing the environmental issues with the proposal for primarily single-family homes.
Sierra Club and other groups warned the San Diego City Council and Planning Commission that these violations of CEQA could end up in litigation. Yet the project was rubber-stamped while the cumulative impacts from other projects in the immediate area — one literally next door and already being constructed having escaped substantive environmental review — were ignored and appropriate mitigation was not required.
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