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BAAQMD Adopts Ambitious Revised 2022 CEQA Guidelines

8 Jun 2023, 8:49 am by Matthew C. Henderson and Arthur F. Coon

For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. [read post]

CEQA Developments - http://www.ceqadevelopments.com

First District Holds CEQA Exhaustion Requirements Don’t Apply to Attorney General, Upholds Adequacy of Most of EIR’s Analysis for BNSF Railyard Project Near Port of Los Angeles

22 Jan 2018, 3:16 pm by Arthur F. Coon

City of Long Beach, et al., Xavier Becerra (Attorney General, as Intervener) v. [read post]

CEQA Developments - http://www.ceqadevelopments.com

Slam Dunked! First District Rejects All CEQA And Land Use Challenges To Golden State Warriors Event Center Project And EIR In Expedited Litigation

5 Dec 2016, 3:40 pm by Arthur F. Coon

City and County of San Francisco (2013) 222 Cal.App.4th 863, 882 [10-cent disposable bag fee held part of proposed ordinance from inception, not mitigation measure].) [read post]

CEQA Developments - http://www.ceqadevelopments.com

Public Adjusters, Expert Opinions and Contingency Fees Don't Mix

5 Oct 2011, 9:04 am by Erin Kristofco

See City & County of Denver, Colo. v. [read post]

Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog - http://www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com/

Tentative Map Approval Is CEQA “Project”, Holds Third District In Published Opinion Also Addressing Prejudicial Error, Agency Discretion To Adopt Thresholds Of Significance, Deferred Mitigation, And Other Significant CEQA Issues

15 Sep 2014, 10:09 am by Arthur F. Coon

Rominger v. [read post]

CEQA Developments - http://www.ceqadevelopments.com

Fourth District Holds Agency’s Removal of Conservation Designation From Land Formerly Protected Under MSHCP Is “Project” Subject to CEQA; Class 7 and 8 Categorical Exemptions for Environmentally Protective Regulatory Actions Do Not Apply

2 Jul 2015, 1:35 pm by Arthur F. Coon

City of San Diego (2015) 234 Cal.App.4th 488, 503; Rominger v. [read post]

CEQA Developments - http://www.ceqadevelopments.com

Family History Modification & Suit Affecting Parent Child Relationship with Holly Factors

21 Apr 2022, 10:47 am by Michael

Below are a few examples cases where the cause of action was used: Miller v. [read post]

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Proposed CEQA Guidelines Amendments: A Critique of OPR’s “Preliminary Discussion Draft” (Part III – Proposed “Minor Technical Improvements”)

26 Oct 2015, 3:24 pm by Arthur F. Coon

City of Santa Clara (2011) 194 Cal.App.4th 1150 [City’s and RDA’s approval of detailed term sheet for 49ers stadium project was not project approval]; City of Santee v. [read post]

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Reversal of Misfortune: Second District Holds CEQA Action Challenging Los Angeles Housing Development Project Barred By Statute of Limitations, Reverses Trial Court Judgment Rejecting MND and Requiring EIR

29 Jan 2024, 8:41 am by Arthur F. Coon

(Citing 7 Miller & Starr, Cal. [read post]

CEQA Developments - http://www.ceqadevelopments.com

Neither CEQA Administrative Record Preparation Statute nor Case Law Precludes Award of Costs to Prevailing Real Party who Reimburses Lead Agency Its Costs of Record Preparation

19 Sep 2016, 11:02 am by Arthur F. Coon

Please contact Arthur F. [read post]

CEQA Developments - http://www.ceqadevelopments.com

Once More Into the “Brambled Thicket”: Fourth District Reverses Ruling Sustaining Demurrer to Action Challenging Caltrans’ Claim of Statutory CEQA Exemption For Freeway Interchange Project, Holds Streets and Highways Code § 103’s Coastal Commission Exemption Does Not Apply And That Petition Adequately Pleaded Estoppel Against Caltrans to Assert 35-Day Statute of Limitations Based on NOE Filing

1 Apr 2020, 4:33 pm by Arthur F. Coon

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CEQA Developments - http://www.ceqadevelopments.com

Fall 2014 CEQA Roundup: Legislative and Regulatory Developments

16 Oct 2014, 4:35 pm by Arthur F. Coon and Matthew C. Henderson

City and County of San Francisco (2013) 222 Cal.App.4th 863 and Save the Plastic Bag Coalition v. [read post]

CEQA Developments - http://www.ceqadevelopments.com

Second District Confirms Parking Is (Still) Not A CEQA Impact, Reverses Judgment That Found EIR For San Gabriel Mountains Wilderness Recreation And Preservation Project Deficient For Not Sufficiently Analyzing “Impact” Of Reducing Recreational Parking

23 Aug 2021, 8:52 am by Arthur F. Coon

City & County of San Francisco (2002) 102 Cal.App.4th 656 for the principle that the “social inconvenience of having to hunt for scarce parking spaces is not an environmental [read post]

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Redrawing CEQA’s “Parking” Lines? Second District Holds Parking Impacts of Covina Mixed-Use, Transit-Oriented Infill Project Are Statutorily Exempt From CEQA Review, Rejects Related Map Act Challenge

3 Apr 2018, 4:20 pm by Arthur F. Coon

Berkeley City Council (2013) 222 Cal.App.4th 768, 776; Friends of the College of San Mateo Gardens v. [read post]

CEQA Developments - http://www.ceqadevelopments.com

Remedial Legal Logic: Fifth District Doubles Down On Split with Other Districts in Holding CEQA Doesn’t Allow Limited Writ Remedy of Partial EIR Decertification – But Does It Really Matter?

29 Nov 2020, 8:08 pm by Arthur F. Coon

(“Jerry”) Brown, Jr. by Arthur F. [read post]

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Sixth District Upholds Constitutionality of Judicial Council’s Covid Emergency Rules Altering CEQA’s Statutes of Limitations In Unpublished Opinion

20 May 2022, 1:24 pm by Matthew C. Henderson and Arthur F. Coon

Background The case involves the redevelopment of a part of the former Fort Ord in the City of Seaside in Monterey County. [read post]