A 6,000-home California project has spent 36 years in environmental review

A housing project large enough to matter can spend a generation in review before producing homes, revealing the hidden time cost of process

This is the environmental review for a 460-acre project with 6,000 homes. It started 36 years ago. If CEQA were in effect a hundred years ago, California’s population would be a fraction of the size it is today. This approach to developm

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