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CEQA Developments
Supreme Court Depublishes Lengthy CEQA Categorical Exemption Case
On September 9, 2015, the California Supreme Court denied review and decertified the Fourth District Court of Appeal’s previously published opinion in Albert Thomas Paulek v. Western Riverside Regional Conservation Authority,…
CEQA Developments
First District Applies CEQA Exhaustion/Standing Rules, Upholds Judgment Rejecting Claim of Statutory Exemption for Controversial State Lands Commission Land Exchange Agreement
In a published decision filed September 17, 2015, the First District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s judgment granting a writ of mandate and finding that a proposed land exchange…
Real Estate & Construction
“No one ever said it was easy to build a project in San Francisco”
On September 17, 2015, the California First District Court of Appeal struck another blow to the beleaguered 8 Washington Street Project in Defend Our Waterfront v. California State Lands Commission,…
Land Use Law Blog
Proactive Land Use Entitlement Strategies For Raw Land And Updates To Existing Entitlements
Join William Abbott of Abbott & Kindermann, LLP in a class which ties together best practices for land development projects. This is an advanced class aimed primarily at project managers,…
Land Use Law Blog
WILL CSU EVER GRADUATE FROM CEQA SCHOOL?
By William W. Abbott City of San Diego v. Board of Trustees of the California State University, S199557, Supreme Court of California, 2015 Cal. LEXIS 5291, August 3, 2015 The…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
California Supreme Court Sets Oral Argument in Key CEQA Case
The California Supreme Court has announced that the oral argument in California Building Industry Association v. Bay Area Air Quality Management District will take place on October 7, 2015, in…
Administrative and Regulatory
Fourth District Court of Appeal Re-Releases its Opinion Reversing the Denial of Petitioner Group’s Writ Petition
Following rehearing on its own motion, the Fourth District Court of Appeal again reversed and remanded a case involving the closure of two public schools in the Barstow Unified School…
CEQA Developments
Back To The Chalk Board: School District’s Math Fails To Justify CEQA Categorical Exemption For School Closures
In a published opinion filed September 2, 2015, the Fourth District Court of Appeal (Division 2) reversed the trial court’s judgment denying a writ petition challenging a school district’s determination…
Land Use Law Blog
Return of Banning Ranch: The Spurned Responsible Agency
California Appellate Court finds that a local agency's general plan calling for the agency to "work with" other responsible agencies in land use decisions requires nothing more than notice, willingness…
Environmental and Climate
Supreme Court Rejects the California State University System’s Erroneous Interpretation of City of Marina v. Board of Trustees of California State University (2006) 39 Cal.4th 341 Regarding its Duty to Mitigate Off-Campus Impacts
After months of anticipation, the Supreme Court issued its ruling on City of San Diego v. Trustees of the California State University, S199557, affirming the appellate court’s ruling that the…