{"id":10340,"date":"2009-10-23T19:56:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-23T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T19:56:09","slug":"does-ceqa-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/23\/does-ceqa-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Does CEQA matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a bit of discussion about the City of Industry \/ Ed Roski plan to build a new sports stadium in LA County. The stories neglect to tell you a very major point, that Ted Lieu is listed as a principle co-author of ABX381, a bill that many detests. <\/p>\n<p>Now, Lieu is running for Attorney General and does not dare brag about this bill on his web site. &nbsp;In fact, the news lets Senate ProTem Steinberg take the rap for setting aside California&#8217;s Environmental Quality legislation to aid a private developer and a city of less than 1000 people. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that this state needs an Attorney General who is so willing to set aside environmental law when it becomes convenient, just for that sake of a big developer who promises jobs&#8230; something that sports complexes routinely fail to deliver. <\/p>\n<p>It might have been expected from a Republican. &nbsp;That Lieu is a Democrat should be embarrassing to the party. I have already seen an effort to have SoCal Greens oppose Lieu over his willingness to set aside existing law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a bit of discussion about the City of Industry \/ Ed Roski plan to build a new sports stadium in LA County. The stories neglect to tell you a very major point, that Ted Lieu is listed as a principle co-author of ABX381, a bill that many detests. <\/p>\n<p>Now, Lieu is running for Attorney General and does not dare brag about this bill on his web site. &nbsp;In fact, the news lets Senate ProTem Steinberg take the rap for setting aside California&#8217;s Environmental Quality legislation to aid a private developer and a city of less than 1000 people. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that this state needs an Attorney General who is so willing to set aside environmental law when it becomes convenient, just for that sake of a big developer who promises jobs&#8230; something that sports complexes routinely fail to deliver. <\/p>\n<p>It might have been expected from a Republican. &nbsp;That Lieu is a Democrat should be embarrassing to the party. I have already seen an effort to have SoCal Greens oppose Lieu over his willingness to set aside existing law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[3339,7976,4257],"class_list":["post-10340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-3339","tag-7976","tag-4257"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2GM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}