Comment from Betsey Landis, Botanist, CNPS Representative
“I think species lists are essential to evaluating impacts on natural resources. However, lately all I have seen are lists from the CNDDB, usually for an entire mountain range or an entire county. The City of L.A. particularly abuses and bypasses the CEQA process (the developers pay all administrative expenses of the Planning Agency). I have been reading all the excellent comments. This would be a great article for the Bulletin and I hope someone is going to talk about this topic at the CNPS Conservation Conference "Strategies and Solutions" January 17-19, 2009. The Chapters need to know they can demand better species lists and that field surveys be done under CEQA when natural resources may be impacted by a project.”
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