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California Land Use & Development Law Report
Large Solar Energy Project Survives Williamson Act And CEQA Challenge
By Marie Cooper
The Sixth District Court of Appeal has given a boost to utility-scale solar projects by rejecting the types of Williamson Act and CEQA challenges that are often brought against those projects. Save…
CEQA Developments
The New Range Wars: CEQA and the Williamson Act Are Deployed To Fight Global Warming Solutions In Save Panoche Valley
Nothing says “battle royal” quite like pitting several of California’s heavyweight environmental laws against one another in a “winner-take-all” litigation brawl. The Sixth District Court of Appeal recently presided over…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
Judicial Review of Environmental Impact Reports: Is There Really A Need for CEQA Reform?
Every few years, with El Nino-like regularity, a wave of interest in CEQA reform sweeps through the business community, accompanied by pleas to the legislature to overhaul the statute. In…
CEQA Developments
Is “Parking” Really A CEQA Impact? Same As It Ever Was!
Judging by all the recent articles and blog posts written about it, many commenters believe the Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Taxpayers For Accountable School Bond Spending v. San…
Land Use Law Blog
Lorman Education Services CEQA: California Environmental Quality Act Seminar
Diane G. Kindermann Henderson will be teaching an advanced CEQA class for Lorman Education Services on CEQA. This California Environmental Quality Act Seminar will be held on June 26, 2013,…
Real Estate, Land Use & Environmental Law Blog
Failure To Separately Notice Consideration Of CEQA Document Violates Brown Act
San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center v. County of Merced, No. F064930 (5th Dist., May 31, 2013) By Eric DiIulio In San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center v. County of Merced, the…
Real Estate, Land Use & Environmental Law Blog
Bright Lights Not a Significant Impact; Lack of Parking May Be
Taxpayers for Accountable School Bond Spending v. San Diego Unified School District, No. D060999 (4th Dist. Div. 1, April 25, 2013) By Claudia Gutierrez In Taxpayers for Accountable School Bond Spending…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
CEQA and Land Use Bills — An Update
By Julie Jones
SB 731 (Steinberg) CEQA Modernization Act of 2013. (Last amended May 24, 2013. Passed to Assembly May 30, 2013) Aesthetic Impacts in Transit Priority Areas Not Significant. Bill would provide…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
Under the Brown Act, a Planning Commission’s Adoption of a CEQA Document is a Distinct Item of Business that Must be Expressly Disclosed on the Agenda
The Ralph M. Brown Act requires a legislative body of a local agency to post, at least 72 hours before a regular meeting, an agenda containing a "brief general description…
Real Estate, Land Use & Environmental Law Blog
EIR Not Needed Before Starting Eminent Domain Proceeding
By Claudia Gutierrez In Golden Gate Land Holdings, LLC v. East Bay Regional Park District, the California Court of Appeals considered whether an Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”) must be prepared where…