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Land Use Matters August 2024 – CEQA Appellate Decisions & Other Legal Developments

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City of Los Angeles - Increase to Planning Applications and Affordable Housing Linkage Fees - On July 1, 2024, the fee for planning and land use applications increased by 3.5% based on the Consumer Price Index for All Urban...more

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First District Affirms Judgment Rejecting Challenge to CEQA Guidelines Class 32 Infill Development Exemption for 12-Unit...

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In an opinion filed June 27, and later ordered published (with slight modifications) on July 18, 2024, the First District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s judgment denying a writ petition challenging the City of...more

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Third Appellate District Recognizes Unique Regional Resources at Lake Tahoe in Finding Olympic Valley Resort EIR Flawed

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In September 2021, the Third District Court of Appeal in Sierra Watch v. Placer County reversed a judgement upholding Placer County’s Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for a resort development project in the Olympic (formerly...more

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California Supreme Court Clarifies Standard of Review for EIRs and Requirements for Air Quality Impact Analyses

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CEQA Case Report: Understanding the Judicial Landscape for Development - In a published opinion issued December 24, 2018, Sierra Club v. County of Fresno, Case No. S219783, the California Supreme Court determined that an...more

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I-630 Widening/National Environmental Policy Act: U.S. District Court Order Denying Motion for Temporary Restraining Order

As noted in the previous post (see post here), five individuals filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on July 18th addressing what they describe as construction involving the...more

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Proposed California Combined Cycle Natural Gas Power Plant: Petition Filed Before U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Challenging...

Four environmental groups filed a May 29th Petition for Review (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) challenging a proposed 704 megawatt Combined...more

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Ninth Circuit Rejects Challenges to Arizona Highway Project

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On December 8, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected two challenges to the 20-mile South Mountain Freeway Project in Phoenix, Arizona. The decision is the latest in a series of court decisions...more

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Fourth Appellate District Upholds EIR for 200-Acre Specific Plan Development in Riverside County

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In its February 14 decision (certified for publication on March 15) in Residents Against Specific Plan 380 v. County of Riverside, the Fourth Appellate District upheld the County of Riverside’s (“County’s”) approval of a...more

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Court Rejects NEPA, Section 4(f) Challenges to Arizona South Mountain Freeway Project

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In a decision of national importance to the transportation community, the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona rejected National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) challenges and Section 4(f) challenges to the 22-mile...more

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