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CEQA Developments
AEP Launches New CEQA Portal Website As Compliance Resource
The Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP) has developed a new CEQA reference website designed to provide detailed, authoritative, and easy to understand information on CEQA and CEQA compliance. While the…
CEQA Developments
Supreme Court CEQA Subsequent Review Case Briefing Completed And Case Submitted (Apparently)
As a brief follow up to my earlier posts of April 26, May 4, and May 12, 2016, it appears that supplemental and amicus briefing has ended and that the…
Administrative and Regulatory
Addendum Does Not Save Inadequate Energy Impacts Analysis in EIR, First Appellate District Rules
In 2014, the appellate decision in California Clean Energy Committee v. City of Woodland (“CCEC”) caught many lead agencies and CEQA consultants off-guard, by holding that the type of energy…
CEQA Developments
Fourth District Modifies CEQA Categorical Exemption Opinion Involving Palm Springs General Plan Amendment Without Altering Judgment
In an order filed June 17, 2016, the Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District (Division 2) modified its opinion filed April 22, and ordered partially published May 20,…
CEQA Developments
Deficient CEQA Guidelines Appendix F Energy Impacts Analysis Causes First District To Pull The Plug On Ukiah Costco Project EIR
In a partially published opinion filed June 21, 2016, the Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District reversed in part the Mendocino County Superior Court’s judgment denying a writ…
Environmental and Climate
FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT FINDS WAREHOUSE STORE PROJECT EIR FAILED TO SUFFICIENTLY ANALYZE POTENTIAL ENERGY IMPACTS IN PARTIALLY PUBLISHED OPINION
On June 21, 2016, the First Appellate District partially published its opinion for Ukiah Citizens for Safety First v. City of Ukiah (Case No. A145581). The case involved a citizen…
CEQA Developments
Fourth District Holds Wal-Mart Victorville Project EIR Violates CEQA; Project Approval Findings Violate Map Act; And Project Is Inconsistent With General Plan
In a decision filed May 25, and belatedly ordered published June 15, 2016, the Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed and reversed in part a judgment of the San Bernardino County…
Environmental and Climate
CEQA Portal, New Web Resource for CEQA Practitioners, Now Available
We want to let our readers know about the CEQA Portal, a new CEQA reference website being developed by the Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP). The site currently features two tools…
CEQA Developments
June 2016 CEQA Update: Legislative Developments
As summer rapidly approaches, and we continue to experience a (from my perspective welcome) “mini-drought” of published CEQA cases, I’ll briefly report on some recent legislative developments of possible interest.…
Land Use Law Blog
City Elimination Of Minimum Densities Not Exempt From CEQA Review
People for Proper Planning v. City of Palm Springs (April 22, 2016, E062725) ____ Cal.App.4th ____. By William W. Abbott In 2013, the City of Palm Springs amended its general…