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CEQA Developments
EIR Satisfies CEQA Despite Minor Deficiencies and Inaccuracies Where Environmental Review Process Not Prejudiced, Third District Holds
A unanimous Third District panel upheld SiskiyouCounty’s EIR for Roseburg Forest Products Co.’s (Roseburg) electricity cogeneration project involving expansion of its existing wood veneer manufacturing facility. (Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology…
Land Use Law Blog
EIR Set Aside For Failure To Explain Discrepancy Between EIR And WSA In Water Demand Number And To Analyze Groundwater Impacts Resulting From Filling A Lake
By William W. Abbott The City of Santee certified an EIR, a water supply assessment and entitlements for a mixed use project on 970 acres of a 2,600 acre real…
Environmental and Climate
Placing a Measure on the Ballot to Establish Competitive Bidding for Trash Service Contracts is not a Project under CEQA
In Chung v. City of Monterey Park, (2012) Cal.App. LEXIS 1097, the Second District Court of Appeal upheld a trial court’s ruling that Measure BB, a City of Monterey Park…
CEQA Developments
CEQA Roundup: Supreme Court Grants and Holds in City of Hayward; Lengthy Answer Brief Submitted In Berkeley Hillside Preservation; Senator Steinberg Aims for 2013 Reform
As Halloween approaches, there is a “mixed bag” of CEQA developments to briefly note: Just a week after extending its time to act on the City of Hayward’s petition for…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
Under CEQA Non-Prejudicial Errors Do Not Invalidate an EIR.
The County of Siskiyou certified an Environmental Impact Report for a project to expand an existing manufacturing facility to accommodate a cogeneration power plant housed on one acre of a…
Renewable + Law
Newly Published CEQA Decision Sets Precedent Regarding EIR Project Alternatives
A legal update from my colleagues Barbara Brenner and Kristen Castaños: We are pleased to report that the California Third District Court of Appeal recently granted our request to publish…
Environmental and Climate
EIR Found Deficient With Regard to Water Supply Impacts and Deferred Butterfly Mitigation
In Preserve Wild Santee v. City of Santee (2012) 2012 Cal. App. LEXIS 1091, petitioners challenged the City of Santee’s (City) certification of a final environmental impact report (EIR) for…
Stoel Rives Environmental Law
Newly Published CEQA Decision Sets Precedent Regarding EIR Project Alternatives
My colleague, Barbara Brenner, posted an environmental law alert on the recently published CEQA decision issued by the California Third District Court of Appeal in Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Ctr.…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
CEQA Review Not Required for Ballot Measure Requiring Competitive Bidding for City’s Solid Waste Contracts
Measures put on the ballot by a city council are not automatically exempt from CEQA even though they must be approved or disapproved by the voters. As shown in a…
Environmental and Climate
Third District Court of Appeal Holds “Fair Argument” Standard of Review Applies to Determine Whether there is a Reasonable Possibility of Significant Effect to Trigger the Unusual Circumstances Exception to a CEQA Categorical Exemption
In a showing of solidarity with the First District Court of Appeal in its recent ruling in the Berkeley Hillside Preservation v. City of Berkeley (2012) 203 Cal.App.4th 656 case…