This paragraph sums it up:
The
project’s stated purpose in the EA is “economic
development,”
as part of the Governor’s Road Improvement Program created in the
1980s. See
EA at 4. The NEPA regulations promulgated by the Council on
Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) require agencies to
examine the indirect impacts of projects — those
growth-inducing impacts caused
by a project, such as changes in land use and development patterns.
40 C.F.R. § 1508.8(b). Yet over and over, when purporting to
examine the project’s potential for indirect impacts on various
natural resources, the EA repeats, “The proposed project is
not expected to precipitate substantial development along the
corridor.”
Other questions include, why not use a narrower median?
Why not leave trees on the median?
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