Los Angeles Says Kern County's New Zoning Ordinance for Biosolids Units Violates CEQA

摘要

Kern County, Calif., violated the California Environmental Quality Act by adopting a new zoning ordinance imposing new requirements on the recycling of biosolids-treated sewage-the city of Los Angeles alleges in a lawsuit (City of Los Angeles v. Kern Cnty, Cal. Sup. Ct., No. S-1500-CV-28100, 2/10/15). Filed Feb. 10 in state Superior Court, the complaint comes in the wake of Kern County's long-running effort to restrict the imports of biosolids from Southern California communities for spreading on a Los Angeles-owned farm. The new ordinance comes just two months before a trial is set to begin in a lawsuit the city filed to overturn a 2006 voter initiative (Measure E) that seeks to ban the application of biosolids in unincorporated areas of the county, which would include the city's Green Acres Farm (Los Angeles v. Kern Cnty, Cal. Sup. Ct., No. 189564, 2/5/15).