"The State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQR) was born from a noble and necessary intent: to ensure that we don't build at the expense of our environment. The law has played a critical role in safeguarding our air, water, and neighborhoods for decades."
"Instead of ensuring responsible development, it has too often become a tool for obstruction weaponized to stall housing, clean energy projects, and even basic infrastructure improvements. Each delay comes with an environmental cost of its own."
"Every month a solar project sits in review is a month we're burning more fossil fuels. Every year a mixed-income housing complex is tied up in litigation is a year working families go without affordable homes."
"Outdated review requirements have added significant delays and unnecessary costs, impacting the availability of affordable homes and necessary improvements."
New York's history of building is threatened by the misuse of the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQR), which delays essential projects. Originally intended to protect the environment, SEQR has become a tool for obstruction, hindering housing, clean energy, and infrastructure developments. Delays in projects lead to increased environmental costs, such as continued fossil fuel use. Past reforms aimed to streamline housing and infrastructure development, but outdated review processes continue to cause significant delays and costs, impacting the availability of affordable homes and necessary improvements.
Read at www.amny.com
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