Environmental
Oct. 31, 2015
Following the California Supreme Court's lead may not be so easy as developers hope to avoid CEQA
A proposed mall in the beach town of Carlsbad, popular with city council, is seeing its fast-track approval hit legal and political headwinds
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The state Supreme Court has laid out a clear path for developers yearning to escape the expense and legal headaches created by the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, but a fight raging in a San Diego suburb shows the fast-track route can sometimes be fraught with potholes.
Last year, the high court blessed a maneuver used by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to get local officials to approve con...
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