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Housing Development
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Land Use Developments
Miller Starr Regalia Prevails in Landmark Housing Accountability Act Case
The Terraces of Lafayette is a 315-unit housing development project in Lafayette, California that is perhaps the poster child project under the state’s most important housing production law, known as…
Land Use Law Blog
FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL HOLDS HOUSING ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (HAA) DOES NOT APPLY TO APPROVAL OF CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL PROJECT
By Abbott & Kindermann, Inc., Patrick L. Enright
The Housing Accountability Act (HAA) (Government Code § 65589.5) was enacted 40 years ago as part of a broad legislative efforts to address California’s housing crises. HAA was designed to…
Real Estate Legal Update
California: Parking reform goes into effect January 1
By Phillip H. Babich, Sara M. Eddy
By Phillip H. Babich and Sara M. Eddy Less parking and more housing, or just less parking? Figuring out parking configurations for development projects in California will get a little…
Land Use Developments
“Builder’s Remedy” Provides Key Housing Production Opportunities in California
California is in the midst of the 6th Regional Housing Needs Allocation cycle known as RHNA, a state-mandated process that requires all cities and counties to timely update the housing…
Administrative and Regulatory
Residential Development Project Consistent with Specific Plan Found Exempt from Further CEQA Review
By Megan V. Unger, Kathryn L. Oehlschlager
In Citizens’ Committee to Complete the Refuge v. City of Newark (2021) 74 Cal.App.5th 460, the First District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s ruling that a residential project…
Breaking Ground
"Builder's Remedy": Bay Area Will Soon Face a Powerful Housing Tool
By Publisher
Deborah Brundy, Ryan Michael Leaderman, Tamsen Plume, William E. Sterling, Genna Yarkin
CEQA Chronicles
2022’s New State Housing Laws
This week Governor Newsom signed a series of bills intended to accelerate housing development in California. Two bills – AB 2011 and SB 6 – seek to facilitate residential redevelopment…
CEQA Chronicles
Housing Accountability Act Only Applies to Multi-Unit Residential Projects
In Reznitskiy v. County of Marin (2022) 79 Cal.App.5th 1016, the First District held that the Housing Accountability Act, Government Code Section 65589.5 (HAA), does not apply to a project consisting…
CEQA Chronicles
CEQA Lawsuit, Latest in Decades of Local Opposition Delaying Marin County Housing Development, Met with Judicial Rebuke: “Something is very wrong with this picture”
In Tiburon Open Space Committee v. County of Marin (2022) 78 Cal.App.5th 700, the First District Court of Appeal considered the adequacy of an EIR certified by Marin County (County) for…
Administrative and Regulatory
CEQA Lawsuit, Latest in Decades of Local Opposition Delaying Marin County Housing Development, Met with Judicial Rebuke: “Something is very wrong with this picture”
In Tiburon Open Space Committee v. County of Marin (2022) 78 Cal.App.5th 700, the First District Court of Appeal considered the adequacy of an EIR certified by Marin County (County) for…