Gov. Gavin Newsom is frustrated because California isn’t building nonstop as it did in the mid-20th century.
by including one highly controversial project to be expedited: A 45-mile, 39-foot-wide tunnel under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that would cost a minimum of $16 billion. The monster pipe would funnel Sacramento River water into the southbound California Aqueduct for farms and cities.
“We got in our own way,” Alex Stack says. “We got so good at holding up projects that we’re not building them like we used to.”California’s population has nearly quadrupled since 1950 and more than doubled since Newsom was born in 1967. To accommodate the growth, we’ve bulldozed over lots of land and there are fewer places to build now — at least where there’s enough water for people.
Critics place much of the blame on the California Environmental Quality Act. It’s often abused by business rivals, unions seeking labor concessions from developers and neighborhood NIMBYs — Not in My Backyard — to block projects. Even environmentalists acknowledge that. “We’re focused on building out the infrastructure needed for housing — like water delivery, clean energy and roads and bridges,” Stack says.
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