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Why It Maters: The Midway Rising bill

By Scott Lewis and Will HuntsberryKPBS

The city of San Diego is sponsoring legislation that would exempt the Midway Rising project from the sometimes onerous requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA.

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria has entered the nothing-is-going-to-get-in-our-way phase of the plan to build a new arena and more than 4,000 new housing units on the citys nearly 50 acres of land along …