Court Kills CEQA Exemption For Irvine Office Complex
Just when you thought appellate judges were growing frustrated with the California Environmental Quality Act, the First District Court of Appeal has ruled that a major project in the Irvine Business Complex is not exempt from CEQA because it involves a significant transfer of density within the IBC. In a business-against-business CEQA lawsuit, the justices actually seemed alarmed at the scale of change proposed by the project.
