Through the decades, journalists in California would regularly report stories detailing how CEQA had been abused, with project opponents invoking environmental concerns as the thinnest veneer for naked self-interest. The law required those proposing new structures to address nearly one hundred issues—noise, endangered species, traffic, etc.—many of which had their own subcategories. And opponents simply needed to find a flaw in a developer’s proposal to mitigate impacts on anyone to put the entire project on ice.
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