I finally got around to reading a recent lawsuit about stopping the Sacramento River levee bike path. It’s the funniest thing I’ve read in awhile.
Several elements make the bike path lawsuit funny. First, it’s a CEQA suit, meaning it derives from the California Environmental Quality Act.
Being labeled a CEQA suit instantly identifies a legal complaint as unserious, filed for reasons that have nothing to do with constitutional questions, financial damages or grandma’s estate.
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I’ve never understood how a few property owners near the Sacramento River made city and state officials think public safety means keeping people off the levee parkway.
For 50 years, the safety and security argument was a smokescreen—a stratagem to give exclusive parkway access to several dozen residents and lock out everyone else.
Now the ruse is dead. Mayor Kevin McCarty and the City Council are ready to finish the paved levee bike trail that links Freeport to Downtown and the American River Parkway.
The safety and security con job was obvious from the start, dating from the late 1970s. But nobody challenged it.
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