Good morning, THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF LAWS I have mused before about laws with unintended consequences. Even the most well-meaning of legislators often cannot predict how their legislation might be used by those seeking personal advantage. One such circumstance is the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), which has become a farce, only sometimes relating to its original intent. As envisioned, CEQA would provide a means for evaluating the impacts a proposed development might have on air, water, traffic and noise pollution. Mitigating measures could then be imposed for unreasonable impacts. Instead, neighborhood groups utilize CEQA as a means for tying up undesired developments for years.
Read "How American Politics Went Insane" by Jonathan Rauch in the July/August 2016 edition of The Atlantic. Great example about how shining the light on the process has lead us to this point. As an analogy, the two things you never want to see being made are sausages and legislation...and these changes over the years have allowed us to see how legislation is being made, resulting in precious little legislation actually being made.
Read "How American Politics Went Insane" by Jonathan Rauch in the July/August 2016 edition of The Atlantic. Great example about how shining the light on the process has lead us to this point. As an analogy, the two things you never want to see being made are sausages and legislation...and these changes over the years have allowed us to see how legislation is being made, resulting in precious little legislation actually being made.