County sheriffs and federal officials bickering over land, guns and water policies are as old as the West, but the Constitutional Sheriffs Convention, underway for the past three days in Las Vegas, has something new on the menu — food
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Mitigation Fee Programs Must Be Analyzed In An EIR Prior to Adoption
Center for Sierra Nevada Conservation et al. v. County of El Dorado (January 20, 2012) 202 Cal. App.4th 1156 (Superior Court Case No. PC20080336)
El Dorado County adopted an oak woodland management plan (Management Plan) and mitigation fee program (Fee Program) without…
Are the Days of Mitigating a Project’s Significant Impacts with Impact Fees Gone?
By Katherine J. Hart
In California Native Plant Society v. County of El Dorado, (2009) 170 Cal.App.4th 1026, the California Native Plant Society (“Society”) filed a CEQA lawsuit against El Dorado County (“County”) after the County approved a Mitigated Negative…
El Dorado County Has a General Plan
After four planning directors, 12 years, and umpteenmillion dollars, El Dorado County finally has a general plan. On August 31, the trial court found that the County had complied with its earlier ruling in 1999, which had set aside the…