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Environmental Impact Report
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CEQA Chronicles
Court of Appeal Upholds EIR’s Water Supply Analysis for American Canyon Warehouse Project
By Andrew M. Skanchy, Joshua B. Bailey
In City of Vallejo v. City of American Canyon (Case No. C102070), the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s judgment rejecting a neighbor city’s CEQA challenge to…
CEQA Developments
Third District Affirms Judgment Upholding American Canyon’s EIR for Industrial Warehouse Project and Related WSA Against Vallejo’s CEQA and Water Code Challenges Based On Allegedly Inadequate Water Supply Analyses
In a published opinion filed January 14, 2026, the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed the Sacramento County Superior Court’s judgment denying the City of Vallejo’s (“Vallejo”) writ petition challenging…
CEQA Developments
Is Robust and Disruptive CEQA Reform Possible? Senator Scott Wiener Wants to Find Out – His Proposed SB 607 Would Exempt Rezonings Consistent With Approved Housing Elements, Limit The Scope of EIRs for Qualifying “Nearly-Exempt” Projects, and Greatly Strengthen Negative Declarations and Categorical and Statutory Exemptions
On February 20, 2025, Senator Scott Wiener introduced Senate Bill No. 607 (SB 607), a proposed law that is relatively short in text length, but which would engender major CEQA…
Administrative and Regulatory
EIR Certification and Categorical Exemption Upheld for Components of Los Angeles Westside Mobility Plan
By Sarah Nagle, Samuel D. Bacal-Graves, Amy R. Higuera
In Westside Los Angeles Neighbors Network v. City of Los Angeles (2024) 104 Cal.App.5th 223, the Second District held that the City of Los Angeles Planning Commission (“Commission”) was a…
Administrative and Regulatory
First District Holds that Analysis of Development’s Increased Wildfire Risk is a Necessary Component of Project EIR
By Dustin D. Peterson, Sarah Nagle, Andrew M. Skanchy
In People ex rel. Bonta v. County of Lake (2024) 105 Cal.App.5th 1222, the First District Court of Appeal held that the Final EIR (“FEIR”) and associated errata for a proposed…
Environmental and Climate
Downey Brand Victory: EIR Upheld for Sand and Gravel Mine; Lead Agency Allowed to Recover Administrative Record Costs
In Yolo Land and Water Defense v. the County of Yolo (2024 105 Cal.App.5th 710, the Third District Court of Appeal upheld the County’s EIR for a sand and gravel…
Real Estate, Land Use & Environmental Law Blog
Westside Mobility Plan Clears the Road of CEQA Challenges
By Justin Mahramas, Amanda Lee
In Westside Los Angeles Neighbors Network v. City of Los Angeles, the Second District Court of Appeals considered and upheld the City of Los Angeles’s (“City”) actions associated with the approval…
Administrative and Regulatory
California Supreme Court Reverses First District Court of Appeal’s Decision in UC Berkeley People’s Park Student Housing Case
By Breana M. Inoshita, Kathryn L. Oehlschlager
The California Supreme Court, on June 6, 2024, reversed the First District Court of Appeal’s decision regarding UC Berkeley’s Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) EIR. The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
California Supreme Court Upholds EIR for UC Berkeley Housing Development
By Lucy Miller
The California Supreme Court held that under newly enacted Assembly Bill 1307, the environmental impact report prepared for UC Berkeley housing and longer-term development was not inadequate for failing to…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
EIR for State Water Project Contract Amendments Upheld
The Third District Court of Appeal upheld the Department of Water Resources’ EIR concerning State Water Project contract amendments against multiple CEQA challenges related to impact analysis, project descriptions, and…