Nice Try, Cal State -- But CEQA Mitigation Doesn't Require State Appropriations
- William Fulton
- Aug 5, 2015
- 3 min read
Tuesday's California Supreme Court ruling in a CEQA case involving San Diego State lays down an important marker: State agencies can't claim that a mitigation measure is infeasible just because they didn't get a legislative appropriation to pay for it. It's the second time the Supreme Court has rejected an argument by Cal State that fiscal considerations under state law should trump CEQA.
