Posted by Tim Coyle at 8:12 pm on Mar 24, 2021 Comments Off on Having Discounted Wildfire Threat, Why is AG Suing?
If someone got a map of California and overlaid the state’s
high-risk wildfire severity zones one would have an outline of all
developable land in California. In other words, the state’s entire
inventory of developable land is one big high-risk wildfire
severity zone.
Let’s face it, most of California is a desert. Excluding the
areas in and around the heavily wooded forests of the northern
state, Californians dwell in either farm land or are urban dwellers
– and mostly the latter. Indeed, less than six percent of the land
area is populated by humans.
So, lawsuits against two developments in wildfire zones in San
Diego County (“the County”) are, taken together, litigation against
all development across California and are profoundly
anti-growth.
This fact didn’t stop state Attorney General Xavier Bercerra.
Earlier this month – as one of his last official acts as AG (last
week Bercerra was confirmed by the Senate as President Biden’s
Secretary of Health and Human Services) – he joined in the
lawsuits, siding with the plaintiffs, on behalf of California.
While we Californians are primarily city folk, we have over the
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