Ruling: Long Beach CEQA Exemption Didn't Protect School

William Fulton
Nov 2, 2025
2 min read

Updated: Jan 15

The owners of a Long Beach gas station wanted to add a car wash. But the property is adjacent to a school and in close proximity to several other gas stations, and Long Beach Unified claimed that the air quality analysis under the California Environmental Quality Act was inadequate.

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