Insight: What the SANDAG Case Teaches Us About CEQA
- William Fulton
- Jul 23, 2017
- 5 min read
It’s tempting to say that the big SANDAG sustainable communities strategy lawsuit ended with a whimper and not a bang. After all, the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of the San Diego Association of Governments’ approach to dealing with possible 2050 emissions reduction targets in the environmental impact report for the 2011 SCS. At the same time, environmentalists were arguing off the record that this was the best loss they could have imagined, because it didn’t say that SANDAG’s approach was adequate for future analysis.
