
Surprise! The Enviros Are Going To Litigate Against the 241 Approval
Natural Resources Defense Council Senior Project Attorney James Birkelund was informing the press that the F/ETCA’s approval of the 241 completion will be challenged in court within 30 days.
Gee, that’s a surprise.
The suit will be filed by the usual suspects: the Sierra Club, Audubon Society, California State Parks Foundation, Endangered Habitats League, Surfrider Foundation, Sierra Club.
I overheard Birkelund stating that NRDC continues to "stand behind" the flimsy KCA report that purports to prove that widening the I-5 in San Clemente by a single lane in each direction will solve congestion problems there and obviate the need for completing the 241. This report was written based on two days of an engineer driving this stretch of the I-5 and eyeballing the area to see how many properties would be taken. The KCA report also contends only a couple of dozens properties would need to be seized in order to do this — instead of the several hundred as stated in the Final EIR.
It’s worth noting that KCA didn’t use Orange County Assesor… Read More