CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

1) held the San Diego County Board of Supervisors committed a prejudicial abuse of discretion in granting project opponents’ appeals of the Planning Commission’s decision upholding County’s use of the CEQA Guidelines section 15183 exemption for a construction debris and inert materials recycling facility project. 2024) Cal.App.5th.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

The case holds that the City’s water allocations to the City’s agricultural lessees were authorized under its existing 2010 leases and thus did not constitute a new project subject to CEQA review before they could be lawfully implemented. The leases had a term running from 2009 through 2013, with a holdover provision.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 9, 2019

of the 2019 budget bill reallocates those funds for a number of projects unrelated to PFAS. In an unusual (and unprecedented) provision, the legislature earmarked over $800,000 to eliminate a conservation easement on a completed stream restoration project. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) road construction projects.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

The case has its origins in the operation of the Oroville Dam on the Feather River, which is part of the large statewide plumbing system with the prosaic name of State Water Project (“SWP”). It was also undertaking environmental review under CEQA by preparing an EIR for the project. County of Nevada (2013) 221 Cal.App.4th

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

A project’s incremental contribution may be cumulatively considerable even if it appears relatively small compared to statewide, national or global emissions. The agency’s analysis should consider a timeframe that is appropriate for the project. City of Oroville, 219 Cal.App.4th Energy Impacts and Efficiency.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In a 53-page published opinion filed October 8, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal mostly affirmed, but reversed in part, a judgment in a CEQA action challenging two sets of projects of the City of San Diego to underground overhead utility wires in several neighborhoods. City of San Diego (2021) Cal.App.5th. The Litigation.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Ninth Circuit Reinstated Listing of Bearded Seal as Threatened Based on Climate Change Projections. Environmental groups had identified five categories of new information since the 2004 preparation of an EIS that they contended warranted supplemental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

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