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California Land Use & Development Law Report
Senate Bill 743: Legislature Sends CEQA Amendments to Governor
By Julie Jones
Following a week of intense negotiations, the Legislature has sent Governor Brown a set of CEQA amendments. Senate Bill 743 replaces – at least for now -- Senate Bill 731,…
CEQA Developments
Third District Holds CEQA Analysis of GHG Emissions Was Inadequately Quantified To Support EIR’s Mitigation Conclusion in Friends of Oroville
In a partially published opinion filed August 19, 2013, the Third District Court of Appeal reversed a judgment denying a writ petition challenging a Wal-MartSupercenterthat would replace an existing Wal-Mart…
Land Use Law Blog
With Friends Like This, Who Needs CEQA Enemies?
By William W. Abbott Friends of Oroville v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (August 19, 2013, C070448) ___ Cal.App.4th ___. Wal-mart moved several steps closer to a new store as a result…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
County Can Establish Winery Uses By Right Despite Environmental Impacts
By Julie Jones
San Diego County’s decision to permit visitor-serving wineries by right has survived CEQA and general plan challenges. San Diego Citizenry Group v. County of San Diego, 219 Cal. App. 4th…
Stoel Rives Environmental Law
Appellate Court Requires Calculation of Current Emissions in GHG Analysis Under CEQA
Authored by Carissa Beecham In Friends of Oroville, et al. v. City of Oroville, et al. (“Friends of Oroville”) (filed and published in part on August 19, 2013), the Third…
CEQA Developments
Adoption of CEQA Thresholds of Significance Is Not A CEQA “Project,” First District Holds In Reinstating BAAQMD’s 2010 Air Quality Guidelines
In a published opinion filed August 13, 2013, the First District Court of Appeal, Division Five, reversed a trial court judgment that had invalidated the Bay Area Quality Management District’s…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
No CEQA Review Required For Adoption of CEQA Thresholds of Significance
A court of appeal today rejected a CEQA challenge to an air pollution control district’s published thresholds of significance for air pollution impacts. California Building Industry Association v Bay Area…
Land Use Law Blog
Appellate court upholds ordinance restricting single use plastic bags and adopting a fee for paper bags based upon a categorical exemption in CEQA.
By William W. Abbott Save the Plastic Bag Coalition v. County of Marin (July 25, 2013, A133868) ___Cal.App.4th ___. In January 2011, the Board of Supervisors for the County of…
CEQA Developments
High Court Tackles CEQA Future Baselines In Neighbors For Smart Rail Decision
In a much-anticipated decision filed August 5, 2013, the California Supreme Court held that CEQA requires a lead agency to assess a project’s environmental impacts against an “existing conditions” baseline…
Real Estate & Construction
Plastic Bag Coalition Unable to Litigate its Way Out of a Paper (or Cloth) Bag
In Save the Plastic Bag Coalition v. County of Marin, 2013 Cal. App. LEXIS 588, the Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District affirmed denial of a petition for…