The Real CEQA Reform
- William Fulton
- Jan 28, 2019
- 4 min read
It’s pretty clear that comprehensive legislative reform of the California Environmental Quality Act isn’t going anywhere. Despite his contention that CEQA reform is “the Lord’s work,” former Gov. Jerry Brown didn’t come anywhere close in the last eight years, and his successor Gavin Newsom has stayed away from big-time CEQA reform in the housing package he unveiled only days after his inauguration. The conventional wisdom is nobody wants to buck labor interests, which often use CEQA to extract concessions from developers that they cannot obtain any other way.
