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Subdivision Map Act
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Land Use Developments
Landowner’s Efforts to Void and Redraw Subdivision Map Fails Under Laches Doctrine
The often invoked but rarely successful laches doctrine is an equitable defense when a party unreasonably delays enforcing a right and when granting the relief sought would prejudice the adverse…
Land Use Developments
Development Agreement Allowed City to Impose New Fees on Housing Project Despite Previously Approved Vesting Tentative Map
In a new case published on June 8, 2020, North Murrieta Community, LLC v. City of Murrieta, __ Cal.App.5th __ (2020) (Case No. E072663), the Fourth District Court of Appeal…
Land Use Law Blog
An NOD Filed Following Approval Of A Vesting Tentative Map Runs The CEQA Statute Of Limitations For Later Project-Related Approvals
Coalition for an Equitable Westlake/MacArthur Park v. City of Los Angeles, 2020 Cal.App. LEXIS 272 On March 3, 2017, the Director of Planning, serving as the “advisory agency” pursuant to…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
No Subdivision of Williamson Act Land Unless Residential Development is Closely Associated With Agricultural Use
The County of San Diego violated the Subdivision Map Act by approving residential development of land restricted to agricultural use under the Williamson Act when the development was neither closely…
Land Use Law Blog
Court Reverses County Approval of Tentative Subdivision Map Approval for Land Subject to a Williamson Act Contract
Cleveland National Forest Foundation v. County of San Diego (2019) ____ Cal.App.5th ______. On July 25, 2019 the Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District published its opinion in…
Land Use Law Blog
Join William Abbott on May 2, 2018 for UC Davis Extension’s Subdivision Map Act: Part I
Course Description Learn key provisions of the Map Act, how it is applied in planning and development processes, recent legislative changes and new legal interpretations from court decisions and attorney…
Land Use Developments
Court of Appeal Rules That Subdivision Map Act Does Not Require City to Determine Legal Status of Lots Created by Older Map Before Approving Development Permit to Allow Construction of Infrastructure Improvements
Since 1907, the Subdivision Map Act has “grandfathered” older subdivisions and the parcels they created if they were properly recorded under any law (including a local ordinance), regulating the design…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
Action to Invalidate Building Permit Barred by Failure to File Timely Challenge to Underlying Site Development Permit
By Chris Parker
In Citizens for Beach Rights v. City of San Diego, 10 Cal.App.5th 1301 (2017), the court of appeal held that a challenge to issuance of a building permit necessarily included…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
General Plan Sustainability Requirements Doom Wal-Mart Project
By Julie Jones
Finding a variety of legal errors, including failure to comply with a city policy requiring on-site electricity generation “to the maximum extent feasible,” a court of appeal has overturned the…
Administrative and Regulatory
Appeals Court Finds Wal-Mart EIR Deficient and Overturns Development Approval Due to Inadequate Map Act Findings
Cities and counties across the state have revised their general plan policies to address the interrelated issues of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy consumption by new commercial and residential…