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Lorman Education Services CEQA: California Environmental Quality Act Seminar
Diane G. Kindermann Henderson will be teaching a class for Lorman Education Services on CEQA. This California Environmental Quality Act Seminar will be held on June 26, 2013, in Sacramento,…
CEQA Developments
Missing CEQA Statute of Limitations Is Not Excusable Neglect, Third District Holds
In its terse, no-nonsense opinion in Alliance For the Protection of the Auburn Community v. County of Placer, et al. (2013) 215 Cal.App.4th 25, ordered published on April 2, 2013, the…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
CEQA Modernization? Not really.
By Perkins Coie
Steve Kostka, Julie Jones and Barbara Schussman The eagerly-awaited amendments to SB 731, the “CEQA Modernization Bill” have surfaced. The initial iteration of this bill was a placeholder which outlined…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
Stadium Expansion Project Required EIR Based on Traffic and Parking Impacts
Perhaps reflecting a north-south division over the importance of a parking space, the Fourth District has held that impacts of a stadium project on parking, together with traffic, necessitated preparation…
Land Use Law Blog
Steinberg’s Amended CEQA Bill – SB 731-May Have A Chance
By Katherine J. Hart Senate Bill No. 731, Introduced by Senator Darrell Steinberg in February 22, 2013, as amended on April 23, 2013. I’m the first person to doubt all…
CEQA Developments
First District Holds CEQA Remedies Provision Allows Park District’s Eminent Domain Action To Proceed Pending Preparation of Project EIR So Long As Property Not Actually Acquired
In Golden Gate Land Holdings LLC v. East Bay Regional Park District (4/12/13 1st Dist., Div. 5) 215 Cal.App.4th 353, the First District Court of Appeal explored the scope and…
Land Use Law Blog
NEW CLASS – Proactive Land Use Entitlement Strategies For Raw Land And Updates To Existing Entitlements
Join William Abbott and Kate Hart of Abbott & Kindermann in a new class which ties together best practices for land development projects. This is an advanced class aimed primarily…
Mineral Law
Court Finds Agency Must Consider Impacts of Current Fracking Technologies under NEPA
See our California Environmental Law Blog for a discussion of the court's decision in Center for Biological Diversity v. BLM, finding that BLM failed to consider the impacts of current…
CEQA Developments
Residential Project Exempt From CEQA Review Under Government Code Section 65457 As Consistent With Specific Plan For Which Program EIR Previously Certified; First District Also Holds New GHG Thresholds Do Not Constitute “New Information” Requiring Supplemental EIR For Specific Plan
In a recently published opinion construing Government Code § 65457’s exemption from environmental review for a residential development consistent with a specific plan for which an EIR was previously certified,…
Land Use Law Blog
2013 CEQA 1st QUARTER REVIEW
By William W. Abbott, Diane Kindermann, Katherine J. Hart and Glen Hansen It is hard to believe that after a tsunami of CEQA decisions in 2012 that there are only…