Court Kills CEQA Exemption For Irvine Office Complex
- William Fulton
- Feb 13, 2023
- 4 min read
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.
