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CEQA Developments
Petitions for Review Filed In Brown Act/CEQA Exemption Case
On December 5, 2022, the real party in interest (Arakelian Enterprises, Inc. dba Athens Services) and respondent City of Thousand Oaks both filed petitions for review in the California Supreme…
CEQA Developments
Second District Denies Rehearing and Modifies Opinion In Brown Act/CEQA Exemption Case; CSAC and Solano County Seek Depublication In Supreme Court
The Second District Court of Appeal (Div. 6) has issued a November 22, 2022 Order modifying its opinion and denying rehearing in G.I. Industries v. City of Thousand Oaks (2022)…
CEQA Chronicles
Local Agency Violated the Brown Act by Failing to Properly Agendize CEQA Exemption
*Note - On February 15, 2023, the California Supreme Court denied petitions for review that were filed by the City of Thousand Oaks and the Real Party in Interest in…
Administrative and Regulatory
Local Agency Violated the Brown Act by Failing to Properly Agendize CEQA Exemption
*Note - On February 15, 2023, the California Supreme Court denied petitions for review that were filed by the City of Thousand Oaks and the Real Party in Interest in…
CEQA Developments
Attorney General’s Guidance On “Best Practices” For CEQA Analysis Of And Mitigation For Wildfire-Related Impacts Is Long On Litigation And Policy Advocacy, Short On Neutral Legal Analysis
By Arthur F. Coon, Matthew C. Henderson
“We didn’t start the fire….” -Billy Joel Wildfires are an unfortunate reality of life in California and have become of increasing concern over the past several years. Eight of the…
Administrative and Regulatory
Discretionary Reductions in Water Deliveries Allowed Under Terms of Existing Leases are not a New CEQA Project
In County of Mono v. City of Los Angeles (2022) 81 Cal.App.5th 657, the First District Court of Appeal held that a reduction in water deliveries by the City of Los…
Administrative and Regulatory
Residential Development Project Consistent with Specific Plan Found Exempt from Further CEQA Review
By Megan V. Unger, Kathryn L. Oehlschlager
In Citizens’ Committee to Complete the Refuge v. City of Newark (2021) 74 Cal.App.5th 460, the First District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s ruling that a residential project…
CEQA Chronicles
2022’s New State Housing Laws
This week Governor Newsom signed a series of bills intended to accelerate housing development in California. Two bills – AB 2011 and SB 6 – seek to facilitate residential redevelopment…
Environmental and Climate
Court Holds CEQA Is Not Preempted in Federal Hydroelectric Relicensing Proceeding
By Tiffanie Ellis, Brian T. Cragg
In County of Butte v. Dep’t of Wat. Resources (2022) 13 Cal.5th 612, issued on August 1, 2022, the California Supreme Court carved out a role for the California…
Environmental and Climate
Third District Invalidates Water Bottling Facility EIR for Overly Narrow Project Objectives and Failure to Recirculate
By Breana M. Inoshita, Christian L. Marsh, Jennie Woo
On April 20, 2022, the Third District Court of Appeal filed its opinion in We Advocate Through Environmental Review v. County of Siskiyou (2022) 78 Cal.App.5th 683, reversing the trial…