Want to build in California? Anything? The CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act, signed in 1970 by Gov. Ronald Reagan, has been the single most obstruction to home building in the state. Needless to say, it has been the sole source of thousands of lawsuits against building projects statewide ever since. In addition, the legislature in Sacramento, that corrupt body of Democrats, has been complicit in the promotion of a defense of sorts of the environment within the state boundaries.
Recently, the Governor of California, Mr. Gavin Newsom, a democrat recently reelected, has been chastizing cities and counties because of the lack of housing being built, claiming that the state needs to step into the fray to assign building permits at all levels. Now, Gavin, go look in the mirror and say, "It is not my fault; it is their fault we have no housing and tens of thousands of homeless people on our streets."
Now Gavin has his staff assign housing unit quotas for each city and county with a date to send Sacramento the locations and amounts of new units to be built by 2025. The hubris! CEQA. CEQA. CEQA! It is laughable, really; and pathetic, too. Go ahead: assign quotas. The fools. Have the legislators go look in the mirror. Repeat, statements as above. The poor homeless, left waiting for the eggheads in Sacramento to solve this little problem statewide. The statements put out by the media types employed are endless, and always the same: we have a solution in the works; see-we're are responsive and responsible. The results speak for themselves: nothing gets built, CEQA reigns supreme. Gavin says we in Sacramento will overcome CEQA, and all things CEQA. CEQA is dead to me. Long Live CEQA. 53 years of CEQA and counting. Maybe it's time to: START OVER. Yes, start over. A 1970 law no longer works. It works for lawyers and environmental activists, but not homeless street cowboys. It seems so obvious to casual observers.
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| Flow Chart of CEQA law review process |
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