CEQA EvaluationThis case is based on whether the requirements of the CEQA were met or not.
In the following statement the clearly states his opinion as to whether these conditions were met, or not.
“From a CEQA standpoint, whether Mr. Ciachurski is genuinely committed to follow through and bring this water and it is a firm commitment from a CEQA standpoint, it wasn't evaluated,” the judge said. “And so whether it is or isn't, we don't really know. And the whole point of CEQA is to have some sort of genuine, real evaluation of how firm of a commitment this is or isn't, so that it's a transparent process.”
From a CEQA standpoint the evaluation was not met.
Period.