Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It is precisely the impacts from these severely changed weather systems that the Held plaintiffs cited as reasons for their initial complaint filed in 2020. And in so many of my conversations on the topic, people are ecstatic about the result—a bright spot in a sea of grim climate news. Everyone has been talking about Held.

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The AG’s predisposition against even the most thoughtful and intelligently designed development projects in “fire country” is further evinced with statements such as: “Some EIRs have concluded that the conversion of some wildland vegetation into paved development reduces or does not increase wildfire risk.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

d) does provide that dismissal under CCP § 389(b) is inappropriate for a petitioner’s failure to name parties not identified as real parties in interest in the lead agency’s NOD, it does not provide for the converse proposition, i.e., that dismissal is mandatory for failure to name and join identified real parties. 1979) 91 Cal.App.3d

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Food Safety also challenged the Revised EIR on the grounds that it did not adequately analyze the impact of the Kern Water Bank on the conversion from annual crops (i.e., Food Safety argued that such a conversion “hardened” water demand, because permanent crops, by definition, cannot be fallow during drought years.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 11, 2021

Citing Pub. Citing Friends of the College of San Mateo Gardens v. Citing its decision in East Sacramento Partnership For a Livable City v. The Book” is the most widely used and judicially recognized real estate treatise in California and is cited by practicing attorneys and courts throughout the state.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Citing Clover Valley Foundation v. acres would not cause exceedance of this regional conversion projection and cumulative threshold of significance. The Court held that CEQA did not require the EIR need to consider “climate-driven tree mortality” as a source of forest conversion in the cumulative impacts analysis.

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In keeping with the spirit of the holiday season, it is entirely fitting that some cynical and unbelieving jurisdictions be gifted with a published judicial reminder that CEQA really does exist – and that its required procedures must be scrupulously followed. Monterey Peninsula Water Management Dist. 2006) 141 Cal.App.4th 4th 677, 693-694.).

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