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How CEQA scuttles projects like Sprouts, even when it’s not about the environment

A half-empty Rite-Aid on Castro Valley Boulevard was about to be revitalized into a shopping center featuring a Sprouts grocery store. Now a law originally envisioned to protect California’s environment may scuttle the transformation of the eastern gateway to Castro Valley’s business district. Enacted in 1970, the California Environmental Quality …