>We didn’t get into the current situation because someone woke up and decided housing scarcity would be cool. I mean, in a way, we did. CEQA didn't become the

>We didn’t get into the current situation because someone woke up and decided housing scarcity would be cool. I mean, in a way, we did. CEQA didn't become the monster that it is now because the California legislature intended to enact a monster. It was effectively an accident of an interesting, and arguably activist, interpretation by the CA Supreme Court in a case called Friends of Mammoth v. Board of Supervisors: >In 1972, the California Supreme Court broadened CEQA by interpreting a "public" project as any development that needed government approval.[4][5]: 1 Since then, CEQA has become the basis for anyone with a grievance against a project to file lawsuits to slow projects by years or kill projects by imposing delays and litigation costs that make projects infeasible.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Environmental_Quality_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Environmental_Quali... https://casetext.com/case/friends-of-mammoth-v-board-of-supervisors https://casetext.com/case/friends-of-mammoth-v-board-of-supe...