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Super-rich homeowners for environmental red tape? We’ll pass, thanks

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This just in from ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s wife in her 100-plus-room LA mansion: She doesn’t want expedited homebuilding for everyone else.

Ditto Jane Fonda, albeit from a more modest $6 million spread in Century City.

As The California Post reported this week, Schmidt and Fonda will lead a campaign against a Nov. 3 ballot measure that would relax facets of the onerous California Environmental Quality Act.

Prop. 45 would truncate some review timelines under CEQA, limit some aspects of litigation and streamline the infamous Environmental Impact Report, all to accelerate construction of projects such as new homes, water systems, health facilities and more.

The measure, imperfect though it may be, strives for a balance between legit environmental protections and getting projects built without years-long delays.

Still, the stars, so to speak, have lined up against it. 

Wendy Schmidt, long a green activist, has dropped $5 million on the anti-Prop. 45 cause. (So........

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