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CEQA Developments
Work Done Under Unchallenged CEQA Emergency Exemption Held Part Of Existing Environment Baseline In Subsequent CEQA Challenge To Permanent Permits
In a decision filed January 29, and belatedly ordered published on February 18, 2015, the Fourth District Court of Appeal rejected numerous CEQA (and other) challenges to the City of…
CEQA Developments
CEQA Roundup – Recent Developments
Numerous CEQA-related developments have recently been in the news. Some of possible interest include: Kings and Kern Counties, the Kings County Farm Bureau, and a number of other groups filed…
CEQA Developments
Third District Rejects CEQA Challenge To Program EIR For California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Statewide Fish Hatchery/Stocking Enterprise
In a lengthy published decision filed February 10, 2015, and addressing consolidated appeals in three related actions, the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s judgment rejecting petitioner…
Administrative and Regulatory
Appellate Court Reverses Injunction for La Jolla Hillside Revegetation Project
In an unpublished opinion in CREED-21 v. City of San Diego, the California Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed in large part the trial court decision granting an injunction and…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
CEQA Year in Review 2014
A Summary of Published Appellate Opinions Under CEQA By Stephen Kostka, Julie Jones, Barbara Schussman, Alan Murphy, Ned Washburn, Laura Zagar, Kathryn Bilder, Christopher Chou and Marie Cooper In 2014, courts,…
Real Estate, Land Use & Environmental Law Blog
Undisclosed Change in Building Height Requires Supplemental EIR
Ventura Foothill Neighbors v. County of Ventura (12/15/14, 2d Civil No. B254120) The Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District of California has ruled that (i) a 20% increase in…
Real Estate & Construction
Court Holds County’s Abandonment of Rights-of-Way is Not a Project Under CEQA
In an unpublished decision, Delucchi v. County of Colusa, 2015 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 231, the California Third District Court of Appeal denied a petition for a writ of mandate…
Government and Public Policy
Second District Court of Appeal Upholds EIR for Development Along Santa Clara River
In an unpublished opinion in Santa Clarita Organization for Planning and the Environment v. City of Santa Clarita, 2014 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 8998, the California Second District Court of…
Real Estate & Construction
Appellate Court Upholds EIR for Fresno County Mining Project
In a partially published opinion in Friends of the Kings River v. County of Fresno (2014) 232 Cal.App.4th 105, the California Court of Appeal for the Fifth District affirmed the…
CEQA Developments
Latest Proposed CEQA Legislation (SB 122) Seeks To Reform Administrative Record Process – At A Price
California Senate Bill No. 122 (SB 122), introduced by Senators Jackson, Hill and Roth on January 15, 2015, appears to be the newest stab at legislative CEQA “reform.” But numerous…