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Administrative and Regulatory
Neighbor’s General Complaints of Environmental Concerns Insufficient to Exhaust Administrative Remedies as to CEQA Exemption Determination
By Tina Thomas, Samuel D. Bacal-Graves
In Arcadians for Environmental Preservation v. City of Arcadia (2023) 88 Cal.App.5th 418, the Second District Court of Appeal found no error in a trial court ruling that there had been…
CEQA Developments
First District Reverses Judgment In Controversial “People’s Park” CEQA Case, Holds UC Regents’ Program/Project EIR For Long Range Development Plan And Site-Specific Student Housing Project At The Park Failed To Adequately Analyze Alternative Housing Sites, And Student Noise Impacts
In a published opinion filed February 24, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 5) reversed a judgment upholding the adequacy of the EIR for the University of California,…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
NO CEQA REVIEW REQUIRED WHEN INVESTOR-OWNED PUBLIC UTILITY CONDEMNED EASEMENT FOR EXISTING TRANSMISSION LINES
By Marie Cooper
Southern California Edison Company (SCE), a privately-owned public utility, sought to condemn an easement across existing roads on private property in order to service its existing overhead transmission lines. It…
Administrative and Regulatory
Court Finds Use of Addendum Improper as Project’s GHG Emissions Likely Outside the Scope of Prior Programmatic EIR and Unusual Circumstances Exception Applied to Use of Infill Exemption
By Hina Gupta, Kathryn L. Oehlschlager, Tina Thomas
In IBC Business Owners for Sensible Development v. City of Irvine et al. (2023) 88 Cal.App.5th 100, the Fourth District Court of Appeal held that the City of Irvine (“City”) violated…
CEQA Developments
Supreme Court Denies Review And Depublishes Troublesome Brown Act/CEQA Exemption Decision
On February 15, 2023, the California Supreme Court denied the petitions for review and issued an order decertifying the Second District Court of Appeal’s controversial (and previously published) opinion in…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
CEQA Year in Review
By Perkins Coie
The firm's annual publication, CEQA Year in Review, a summary of 2022 published decisions involving the California Environmental Quality Act, is now available.
CEQA Developments
Supreme Court Extends Time To Decide Petitions For Review In Brown Act/CEQA Exemption Case; Sonoma County Files Depublication Request And Cal Cities Files Amicus Letter Urging Review
On January 25, 2023, the California Supreme Court extended to March 3, 2023 its time to grant or deny review of the Second District Court of Appeal’s published opinion in…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
CEQA Challenges to EIR’s Biological and Emergency Evacuation Analyses Rejected
By Julie Jones
A court of appeal has denied CEQA challenges to the EIR for an apartment project, holding that analysis of biological impacts need not be based on surveys conducted in the…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
EIR Invalidated for Failure to Analyze Potential Public Acquisition of Residentially Zoned Land
By Julie Jones
The EIR for a residential project has been struck down because its discussion of project alternatives did not analyze the possibility that public funds might be used to acquire the…
Daniel S. Gonzales Blog
Is CEQA being weaponized against housing development?
The California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) has been a regular topic of discussion in this blog over the years, from challenges to local zoning bans against mobile medical marijuana dispensaries, to the…