Articles

College District's Actions To Move Shooting Range Qualify As 'Project'
College District's Actions To Move Shooting Range Qualify As 'Project'

by CP&DR Staff on Apr 1, 2004

Vol. 19 No. 04 Apr 2004

A community college board's decision to close and demolish a shooting range, clean up lead contamination at the site and transfer shooting range operations to a new location amounts to a "project" that requires review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the Fifth District Court of Appeal has ruled.

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Attempt At Class Action Lawsuit Against Marin Quarry Fails
Attempt At Class Action Lawsuit Against Marin Quarry Fails

by CP&DR Staff on Apr 1, 2004

Vol. 19 No. 04 Apr 2004

Neighbors of a Marin County rock quarry, which has been the source of complaints and government investigations for years, have failed in their bid to pursue a class action lawsuit against the quarry for allegedly illegal activities.

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Rail Yard Is An Opportunity For Sacramento
Rail Yard Is An Opportunity For Sacramento

by Morris Newman on Apr 1, 2004

Places, Vol. 19 No. 04 Apr 2004

The philosopher Heraclitus once remarked that a wise man and a fool may look at the same tree and see different things. The observation also pertains to a reasonable person and a developer. A reasonable person, for example, would look at the Union-Pacific rail yard in downtown Sacramento and see 240 acres of dirt laced with a century of poisonous industrial byproducts. A developer looks at the same thing and sees a pedestrian-oriented urban district.

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