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CEQA Developments
Perfect Storm for CEQA Reform In 2013? Former Govs Weigh In
Hot on the heels of Governor Jerry Brown’s 2013 State of the State address, which raised the need for CEQA reform (as noted in my immediately-preceding blog post), a trio…
CEQA Developments
CEQA Reform Goal Is Noted In Governor’s State of the State Address
In his 2013 State of the State address delivered on January 24, 2013, Governor Jerry Brown focused on education, health care, jobs, and the interrelated areas of climate change, water,…
CEQA Developments
Fourth District Applies CEQA’s “Murky” Piecemealing Tests To Reject “Project Definition” Challenge To Park Development in Banning Ranch Conservancy
Harmonizing CEQA’s rules and principles is, to say the least, not always easy, and is often quite challenging. The relevant concepts are often in tension, or are so malleable that…
Land Use Law Blog
2012 CEQA 4th QUARTER REVIEW
By William W. Abbott, Diane Kindermann, Elizabeth Strahlstrom, Katherine J. Hart, Glen Hansen, and Daniel Cucchi We are pleased to present our cumulative Fourth Quarter CEQA Review for 2012. In…
Land Use Law Blog
Neither A Shared Access Road Nor The Gnatcatcher Stop Sunset Ridge Park Project Under CEQA
By Katherine J. Hart In Banning Ranch Conservancy v. City of Newport Beach (2012) ___ Cal.App.4th ___, the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, considered whether the City of Newport…
Land Use Law Blog
Declaration of Water Emergency in Furtherance of a Judgment Was Exempt From CEQA
By William W. Abbott Central Basin Municipal Water District v. Water Replenishment District Of Southern California(2012) 211 Cal.App.4th 943. Notwithstanding CEQA’s pervasive application, there are-on rare occasions-circumstances in which agency…
CEQA Developments
Recent Cases Show How CEQA’s Applicability And Substantive EIR Requirements Are Determined By Meaningful Agency Discretion
It is a fundamental precept of CEQA that it applies only to the discretionary approval of a project. If an agency has no discretion to deny or shape the project…
Environmental and Climate
City Properly Analyzed Community Park Project Separately from Adjacent Housing Development
In Banning Ranch Conservancy v. City of Newport Beach (2012) 2012 Cal.App.LEXIS 1259, the Fourth District Court of Appeal issued a decision upholding the trial court’s denial of Banning Ranch…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
CEQA Year in Review 2012 — A Summary of Published Appellate Opinions Relating to CEQA
By Perkins Coie
Introduction While CEQA reform became a hot topic for a few days near the end of the 2012 legislative session -- but then foundered -- the appellate courts continued to…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
EIR’s Project Description For Municipal Park Properly Excluded Proposed Development On Adjacent Property Claimed to Be a Related Project
By Marc Bruner
In rejecting the claim that the City of Newport Beach improperly "piecemealed" its environmental review of a municipal park project, the court upheld the city's decision to exclude from the…