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Environmental and Climate
SUPREME COURT FINDS RESIDENTIAL PROJECT INCONSISTENT WITH THE CITY OF ORANGE’S GENERAL PLAN
On December 15, 2016, the Supreme Court filed, Orange Citizens for Parks & Recreation v. Superior Court (2016) __ Cal.App.5th __ (2016 Cal. LEXIS 9595), a unanimous opinion finding a…
Environmental and Climate
: FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT UPHOLDS ADEQUACY OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL EIR PREPARED FOR THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS NEW ARENA
In Mission Bay Alliance v. Office of Community Investment & Infrastructure (2016) 6 Cal. App. 5th 160, the First Appellate District affirmed the trial court’s ruling that the Office of…
Environmental and Climate
SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT REJECTS CEQA CHALLENGE TO CHANGES TO A HOSPITAL REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
In an unpublished opinion, Ventura Realty & Investment Company v. City of San Buenaventura, 2016 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 7486, the Second Appellate District affirmed the trial court’s rulings and…
CEQA Developments
Completing the Loop Without Reinventing the Wheel: First District Holds 1998 EIR Adequate Without Further CEQA Review to Analyze Impacts of SF Muni’s Delayed Completion of Dogpatch Area Light Rail Line Loop
In an opinion filed November 29, and belatedly ordered published on December 22, 2016, the First District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s denial of a writ petition challenging…
Land Use Developments
Court Upholds Golden State Warriors’ Mission Bay Event Center and Mixed-Use Development Project
On November 29, 2016, the Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District rejected a challenge to the sufficiency of the San Francisco’s environmental analysis and upheld the City’s approval…
CEQA Developments
Slam Dunked! First District Rejects All CEQA And Land Use Challenges To Golden State Warriors Event Center Project And EIR In Expedited Litigation
In a lengthy published opinion filed November 29, 2016, the First District Court of Appeal rejected all legal challenges to the City of San Francisco’s Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
Zoning Ordinance Is Not Necessarily a Project Subject to CEQA
The enactment of a zoning ordinance regulating medical marijuana facilities is not necessarily a project under CEQA, according to the court of appeal’s decision in Union of Medical Marijuana Patients,…
CEQA Developments
Wither Subsequent Review? Supreme Court Again Weighs In On CEQA Subsequent Review Standards Following Negative Declarations – Grants, Retransfers, and Depublishes First District’s Coastal Hills Rural Preservation Decision
On November 22, 2016, the California Supreme Court issued a significant Order granting review in Coastal Hills Rural Preservation v. County of Sonoma (2016) 2 Cal.App.5th 1234, and also transferring…
CEQA Developments
Sacramento Residential Infill Project EIR Violated CEQA By Basing Less-Than-Significant Traffic Impact Finding Solely On Compliance With General Plan Policy Allowing LOS F
On November 7, 2016, the Third District Court of Appeal filed a published opinion mostly upholding the EIR for a 48.75-acre, 328-unit residential infill project (known as McKinley Village) against…
Land Use Developments
Court Defers to City’s General Plan Consistency Findings, Upholding Residential Infill Project
On November 7, 2016, the Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District reversed and remanded a trial court decision addressing a neighborhood group’s challenge to a 328-unit infill residential…