A Riverside neighborhood group has filed a California Environmental Quality Act petition against the University of California, Riverside’s planned expansion.
The University Neighborhood Association’s Dec. 16 petition claims the university’s Long Range Development Plan’s Environmental Impact Report, which calls for total employees and students to increase by 14,000, from 32,000 to 45,500, by 2035, fails to address a wide range of impacts.
The university has not responded to Follow Our Courts‘ request for comment.
The petition claims impacts to population, housing, recreation, aesthetics, air quality, energy, greenhouse gas emissions, hazards, hydrology, water quality, noise, traffic, transportation, agricultural
