Perspective
Apr. 21, 2010
EIR for Prohibiting Plastic Bags?
David Blackwell and Michael Durkee of Allen Matkins say green motives or a "politically correct" principle does not necessarily make a project CEQA-complaint.
On Jan. 27, 2010, in Save the Plastic Bag Coalition v. City of Manhattan Beach, (2010) 181 Cal.App.4th 521, the 2nd District Court of Appeal held that the petitioners had raised a "fair argument" that a city of Manhattan Beach prohibition against the use of plastic bags at point of sale might lead to a significant environmental impact, and that therefore the city should have prepared an environm...
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