“Environment” means the physical conditions which exist within the area which will be affected by a proposed project, including land, air, water, minerals, flora, fauna, noise, objects of historic or aesthetic significance.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 21060.5
Definitions
Known as the California Environmental Quality Act
The act spans §§ 21000–21189 (300 sections).
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case 87 Cal. App. 4th 99 - Save Our Peninsula Committee v. Monterey County Board of Supervisors (2001)
Most recently applied in Jensen v. City of Santa Rosa (May 2018)
Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1154.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.