Prop 13: Idiocy Comes Home to Roost in California

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not to get to far afield but with all these mandatory environmental studies, required before any

construction project can begin...... how does Obama plan to get all these infrastructure projects going within a short amount of time?

Even the biding process is lengthly, not to mention the planning and engineering.

Of course for him, we will bypass all these "safeguards" that are deemed so important (not to mention expensive) to others.

Yeah, given his pretty firm stance on environmental protection by way of his naming people based in environmental science to lead the EPA and such, as opposed to the firm stance against it in the outgoing administration, we're likely not to see much overstepping of environmental protections in the forthcoming years.

There are projects here which were in the proposal stage in the mid 1980s and are now completing environmental certification

Nothing will get done.. nothing. If that doesn't change.

EPA proposed? It does sound a little slow. Just a little though.

Seriously- certification involves the creation of data that sometimes isn't there to begin with- hence its long delay. I guess you could blame economics that were inherited ever since that proposal stage since the mid 80s... Projects get fast-tracked or they get shelved, too.