> raising environmental concerns is a lever folks can pull to make specific proposed development more expensive and possibly cancelled Environmental concerns u

> raising environmental concerns is a lever folks can pull to make specific proposed development more expensive and possibly cancelled Environmental concerns under CEQA aren't "black-boxed" or generic, they have to be categorized, detailed, and public. Mitigation measures are sometimes expensive, yes. Rubber-stamping construction permits in my island is how we ended up with rows of hotels destroying the coast illegally. Once the buildings are there, the harm is done, and no one has the money to demolish them. "Going after them after the fact" can work for arbitrary zoning requirements, but it doesn't work for environmental ones.