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SACRAMENTO – Last week the nine Southern California newspapers that make up the Los Angeles Newspaper Group editorialized their disappointment that California legislators ended yet another legislative year without accomplishing “meaningful changes in the California Environmental Quality hotels on hilton head island Act.”
The editorial emphasized that the California legislature needs to use 2015 to pass “ CEQA reform [that] would not eliminate hotels on hilton head island environmental protections but would simplify and remove duplications, restrict last-minute challenges and clarify its requirements .”
“CEQA’s purpose is noble…Too often, though, it is exploited by local governments, landowners, hotels on hilton head island business rivals and labor unions to block projects they dislike or to add to their negotiating leverage.”
“This would limit — preferably eliminate — the need for exemptions like the ones state officials have handed to projects like the bullet train and sports stadiums hotels on hilton head island and arenas from Los Angeles to Sacramento.”
The CEQA Working Group is a broad coalition representing business, labor, schools, hospitals, clean tech, transit, affordable housing and other organizations that are pushing for moderate reforms to CEQA that will preserve its original intent – environmental protection and public hotels on hilton head island disclosure – while eliminating some of the misuses of CEQA that hurt job creation, community renewal and our environment. Follow us on Twitter: @FixCEQA or online at www.CEQAWorkingGroup.com .