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Environment, Land & Resources
Webcast: 2021 CEQA Year in Review — CEQA’s Effects on Development in California
We analyze the key CEQA cases from 2021 and their effects on development in California this year and beyond. By Marc Campopiano, Jennifer Roy, Winston Stromberg, Daniel Brunton, and Natalie…
CEQA Developments
Third District Rejects CEQA Challenges To El Dorado Irrigation District Ditch Piping Project, Holds EIR’s Project Description And Analysis Of Potential Hydrology, Biological Resources, and Wildfire Impacts Were Adequate
In an opinion filed January 28, and later certified for publication on February 16, 2022, the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed a judgment denying a petition for writ of…
CEQA Developments
Third District Addresses Significant CEQA Issues In Mixed Decision On Placer County’s EIR For Specific Plan/Rezoning Allowing Development of Martis Valley Timberlands
In a sprawling, 123-page published opinion filed on February 14, 2022, the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed in part, and reversed in part, judgments in consolidated CEQA actions challenging Placer…
CEQA Chronicles
Approval of Mixed-Use Development Found Consistent with General Plan, Other Planning Documents – Court Upholds Project’s Sustainable Communities Environmental Assessment
In Old E. Davis Neighborhood Assn v. City of Davis (Dec. 20, 2021, C090117) ___Cal.App.5th___ [2021 Cal. App. LEXIS 1114], the Third District Court of Appeal upheld the City of…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
CEQA YEAR IN REVIEW 2021
By Perkins Coie
A Summary of Published Appellate Opinions Under the California Environmental Quality Act Introduction The courts issued relatively few published CEQA decisions in 2021, with no California Supreme Court activity and…
Administrative and Regulatory
Small, Domestic Water Permit Deemed Ministerial, Exempt From CEQA
In Mission Peak Conservancy v. State Water Resources Control Bd. (2021) 72 Cal.App.5th 873, the First District Court of Appeal held that the State Water Resources Control Board’s (SWRCB) streamlined permitting…
CEQA Chronicles
Small, Domestic Water Permit Deemed Ministerial, Exempt From CEQA
In Mission Peak Conservancy v. State Water Resources Control Bd. (2021) 72 Cal.App.5th 873, the First District Court of Appeal held that the State Water Resources Control Board’s (SWRCB) streamlined permitting…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
After 27 Years, Litigation Over the Monterey Agreement Comes to an End
Over a quarter century of CEQA litigation over the validity of an agreement between the Department of Water Resources and State Water Project contractors finally came to an end with…
Environmental and Climate
Strawberry Fields Forever – Coastal Commission Failed to Complete Environmental Review Before Project’s Approval Under Certified Regulatory Program and Engaged in Post Hoc Analysis
In Friends v. Cal. Coastal Commission (Nov. 15, 2021, H048088, H04809) __ Cal.App.5th __ [2021 Cal.App. LEXIS 1038], the Sixth District Court of Appeal found that the California Coastal Commission…
CEQA Chronicles
Strawberry Fields Forever – Coastal Commission Failed to Complete Environmental Review Before Project’s Approval Under Certified Regulatory Program and Engaged in Post Hoc Analysis
In Friends v. Cal. Coastal Commission (Nov. 15, 2021, H048088, H04809) __ Cal.App.5th __ [2021 Cal.App. LEXIS 1038], the Sixth District Court of Appeal found that the California Coastal Commission…