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California Land Use & Development Law Report
Court of Appeal Upholds Most of EIR for New A’s Stadium
By Perkins Coie
The First District Court of Appeal largely upheld the City of Oakland’s EIR and CEQA findings for the Oakland A’s proposed new baseball stadium and surrounding mixed-use development, with the…
CEQA Developments
CEQA Updates: Supreme Court Depublishes High School Stadium Light Standard Exemption Case; Second District Modifies Pacific Palisades Opinion With No Change In Judgment
On March 22, 2023, the California Supreme Court granted the City of San Francisco’s stand-alone depublication request in (and declined to review on its own motion) the First District Court…
Land Use Law Blog
How Much Is Enough? The Second Appellate District Rules Against Appellant For Failure To Exhaust Administrative Remedies In CEQA Appeal.
By William W. Abbott, Abbott & Kindermann, Inc.
How Much Is Enough?
Aviation & Airport
Court Decides That Its Decision in <em>Make UC a Good Neighbor</em> Does Not Unfairly Broaden the Scope of CEQA
Since our February 1, 2023 blog, concerning the California Court of Appeals tentative decision in Make UC a Good Neighbor vs. Regents of Univ. of California, et al., that Court…
Administrative and Regulatory
Second District Rejects CEQA and Coastal Act Challenge to Senior Facility in Pacific Palisades Area of Los Angeles
By Kathryn L. Oehlschlager, Megan V. Unger
In Pacific Palisades Residents Association, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles et al. (2023) 88 Cal.App.5th 1338, the Second District issued a strong opinion affirming the trial court’s ruling that…
Administrative and Regulatory
Substantial Changes to Marilyn Monroe Art Installation Extends Statute of Limitations to Challenge Under CEQA
By Dustin D. Peterson, Andrew M. Skanchy
In Committee to Relocate Marilyn v. City of Palm Springs (2023) 88 Cal.App.5th 607, the Fourth District Court of Appeal held that the petition filed by the Committee to Relocate…
CEQA Developments
Neighbor-Led Group Opposing Single-Family Home Expansion Project Failed To Exhaust Administrative Remedies By Making Sufficiently Specific Objections To City’s CEQA Class 1 Categorical Exemption Determination
In a published decision filed February 16, 2023, the Second District Court of Appeal (Division 7) affirmed a judgment denying a CEQA writ petition challenging approval of a single-family home…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
Eldercare Facility Properly Approved Under Class 32 Infill Exemption from CEQA
The Court of Appeal upheld the approval of an eldercare facility, rejecting claims that the project was inconsistent with the zoning code based on architectural incompatibility and interference with views…
Land Use Law Blog
2022 CEQA 4th QUARTER CUMULATIVE REVIEW
By Abbott & Kindermann, Inc., William W. Abbott, Diane G. Kindermann, Glen C. Hansen, Patrick L. Enright
Welcome to Abbott & Kindermann’s 2022 4th Quarter cumulative CEQA update. This summary provides more in-depth case write-ups on the firm’s blog. Over 40-years old, CEQA requires lead agencies to…
CEQA Developments
“Permanent Vacation” In Palm Springs? – Fourth District Holds CEQA’s Short 35-Day Statute of Limitations Does Not Apply Despite City’s Filing of NOE Due To Subsequent Material Change In Street Vacation Project Which Triggered Maximum 180-Day Limitations Period
In a published opinion filed on February 23, 2023, the Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed a judgment of dismissal after the sustaining of a demurrer and held that an…