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CEQA Developments
High Rise Anxiety: Fourth District Holds San Diego’s Supplemental EIR for Second City Initiative to Update Midway-Pacific Community Plan Violated CEQA By Failing to Adequately Analyze Numerous Potential Impacts of Removing 30-foot Coastal Height Limit
In a published opinion filed October 17, 2025, the Fourth District Court of Appeal (Div. 1) reversed the trial court’s judgment and directed it to grant a writ of mandate…
CEQA Developments
California Legislature Enacts SB 79 Expanding Housing Opportunities Near Public Transit, Streamlining Transit-Oriented Development, and Providing For SB 35 Ministerial Approval Process That Would Avoid CEQA Review
By Arthur F. Coon, Miguel Mauricio
On September 13, 2025, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 79 (“SB 79), authored by Senator Scott Wiener, representing one of the most important land use reforms of the 2025 legislative…
Breaking Ground
California's Summer Blockbuster, <em>Continued!</em>: CEQA Administrative Record Requirements Revised
By Publisher
Bradley B. Brownlow, Franklin B. Muñoz
E2 Law Blog
AB 130 and SB 131: California Legislature Enacts CEQA Reform to Accelerate Housing Development
By Bradley McShane, Hazel Ocampo, Michael P. Canavan, Travis Coon
On June 30, 2025, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law (AB 130 and SB 131) that include reform measures to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
CEQA Chronicles
Wait, What? Major Changes to CEQA Slip into Law via Deft Maneuvering
By Andrew M. Skanchy, Shanna Borek-Klempfner
Much is discussed every year in the Legislature about how the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) needs reform. But the calls for change nearly always fail, aside from a few…
The Right Coast
The Progressive Paucity Agenda From Mamdani in New York to California – WSJ
Environmentalists oppose building more homes in suburbs and want to cram people into cities, which Democrats control. The result: an acute shortage of single-family homes and sky-high prices.California s rents…
Breaking Ground
California Legislature Enacts Major CEQA Reforms for Housing-Rich "Infill" Projects
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Daniel R. Golub, Ryan Michael Leaderman, Kevin J. Ashe, Will Sterling
CEQA Chronicles
Senate Bill 607 and Potential Sweeping Changes to CEQA
By Joshua B. Bailey, Andrew M. Skanchy
This year, over fifty bills were introduced in the Legislature that directly addressed a CEQA issue. Many died in committee, or failed to make it out of their respective houses.…
CEQA Developments
First District Affirms Judgment Dismissing CEQA Action Based On Petitioner’s Failure To Join Indispensable Real Party Developer Within Statute of Limitations Period
In an opinion filed May 14, and later ordered published on June 11, 2025, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 3) affirmed a judgment dismissing a CEQA action challenging…
CEQA Developments
Third District Holds County Could Require Supplemental Environmental Information From Grading Permit Applicant As Condition of Application Completeness Determination Where Permit Submittal Checklist Alerted Applicant CEQA Compliance Would Be Required
Like a gift to land use lawyers that never stops giving, the strange and wondrous interrelationship between CEQA and the Permit Streamlining Act (“PSA”; Gov. Code, § 65920 et seq)…