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2021-01-22: Updated: 2021-02-03 09:58:22 New State Housing Supply Legislation on the Horizon: Déjà Vu All Over Again?

By Margo Bradish, Scott Birkey and Amy Y. Foo

2021-01-22: Updated: 2021-01-22 13:24:16 Army Corps Issues Final Rule on New and Reissued Nationwide Permits

2020-12-21: Updated: 2020-12-22 14:17:17 Court Rules Against California’s Wetlands Regulatory Program

2020-05-11: Updated: 2020-05-14 16:28:46 Santa Clara County Trial Court Upholds Another Housing Project Using SB 35

By Scott Birkey, Margo Bradish, Linda Klein and Eric J. Cohn

2020-04-23: Updated: 2020-04-23 14:52:09 Supreme Court Rules that Discharges to Groundwater May Be Regulated by Clean Water Act

By R. Clark Morrison and Scott Birkey

2020-04-21: Updated: 2020-04-21 12:40:23 Court Eliminates Army Corps Nationwide Permit for Utility Crossings

By Scott Birkey and R. Clark Morrison

2020-03-31: Updated: 2022-04-19 16:56:26 Tolling of LAMC Deadlines

By Alex DeGood

2020-03-18: Updated: 2022-04-19 16:38:14 City Land Use and Planning Functions During Shelter In Place and Related COVID-19 Orders

By Our Land Use & Natural Resources Team

2020-02-27: Updated: 2020-02-27 17:13:46 Insight: Trump’s Clean Water Act Rollback – Implication For California

By Scott Birkey and R. Clark Morrison

2020-01-23: Updated: 2020-01-24 14:11:26 Trump Administration Dramatically Narrows Scope of Federal Wetlands Protections

By R. Clark Morrison and Scott Birkey

2020-01-22: Updated: 2020-01-29 12:12:40 Retail & Commercial Group 2020 Forecast

By Cox Castle

2020-01-09: Updated: 2020-01-09 12:03:58 The California Environmental Quality Act: 2019 Court Decisions and Legislation

By Michael Zischke

2019-08-16: Updated: 2019-08-19 08:33:56 New Endangered Species Act Regulations on the Horizon

By Scott Birkey and R. Clark Morrison

2019-06-21: Updated: 2019-06-21 16:11:09 Takings Claims: The U.S. Supreme Court Just Cleared the Path to Federal Court

By Tim Paone

2019-04-03: Updated: 2019-08-19 08:36:38 California Adopts Far-Reaching Wetlands Permit Requirements

By R. Clark Morrison and Scott Birkey

2018-12-26: Updated: 2019-08-19 08:39:51 The Unintended California Consequences of Trump’s Wetland Protection Rollback

By Scott Birkey and R. Clark Morrison

2018-08-22: Updated: 2019-08-19 08:42:57 Trump Administration Regulatory Reforms Federal Natural Resource Law

By R. Clark Morrison, Scott Birkey and Anne E. Mudge

2018-03-27: Updated: 2019-08-19 08:48:53 Will California Ever Adopt Real Housing Reform?

By Andrew Sabey

2018-02-23: Updated: 2018-02-23 15:29:48 New Rules for Old Buildings

By Linda Klein

2018-02-20: Updated: 2020-11-30 10:38:07 Inside CA Legislature’s Housing Package: HCD Releases SB 35 Eligibility Determination for Project Streamlining

By Christian H. Cebrian, Margo Bradish and Ashley Weinstein-Carnes

2018-01-22: Updated: 2019-08-19 08:41:47 Retail Industry Forecast for 2018

By Cox Castle

2017-12-30: Updated: 2017-12-29 16:18:36 Department of the Interior Legal Counsel Opines that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Does Not Prohibit Inadvertent Take of Birds

By Scott Birkey, R. Clark Morrison and Anne E. Mudge

2017-12-29: Updated: 2017-12-29 12:01:25 Los Angeles City Council Passes “Linkage Fee” Ordinance

By David Waite and Julia Stein

2017-11-02: Updated: 2017-11-02 16:39:32 Inside CA Legislature’s Housing Package: The “Palmer Fix” Inclusionary Housing Legislation

By Erin Phalon, Monica Briseño and Margo Bradish

2017-10-17: Updated: 2019-06-12 10:26:56 Governor Vetoes AB 890, Rejecting Attempt to Curtail Initiative Power on Land Use Actions

By Margo Bradish, Stephanie Straka and Ashley Weinstein-Carnes

2017-10-05: Updated: 2019-06-12 10:27:26 Inside CA Legislature’s Housing Package: Funding and Streamlined Approvals for Housing

By Margo Bradish, Ofer Elitzur, Ashley Weinstein-Carnes and Stephanie Straka

2017-09-22: Updated: 2019-06-12 10:28:09 California Legislature Passes Historic Housing Legislation in Effort to Tackle State’s Housing Crisis

By Margo Bradish, Stephanie Straka and Ashley Weinstein-Carnes

2017-09-08: Updated: 2017-09-12 16:23:12 Changes Coming to Wetland Regulations

By Scott Birkey

2017-07-31: Updated: 2017-08-17 19:19:25 The Trump Effect on California’s Wetland Regulations

By Scott Birkey

2017-05-10: Updated: 2017-07-17 17:29:34 CEQA Changes Proposed

By Linda Klein

2017-02-13: Updated: 2017-02-13 15:31:20 The Initiative and CEQA

By Kenneth Bley and Lisa Patricio

2017-02-08: Updated: 2017-02-13 10:26:22 Looking Forward – Retail Perspectives 2017 Forecast

By Cox Castle

2017-02-01: Updated: 2017-02-02 12:16:53 “Most Likely Descendants” Regulations Enter Approval Process

By Kurt Whitman

2017-01-18: Updated: 2017-02-02 12:41:59 Surprise! California Has a Housing Crisis!!!

By Tim Paone

2017-01-09: Updated: 2017-01-09 22:57:57 Commercial Development: A City That Thinks Outside the (Parking) Box

By Tim Paone

2016-12-16: Updated: 2016-12-16 14:25:43 COASTAL COMMISSION HAS OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS IN ITS CROSSHAIRS

By Stanley Lamport

2016-11-29: Updated: 2020-11-30 10:43:40 Environmental Justice is Coming to California General Plans

By Tim Paone

2016-11-17: Updated: 2019-08-27 16:45:22 When the Coastal Act Clashes with the State’s Housing Density Laws

By Scott Birkey

2016-11-14: Updated: 2016-11-16 15:59:22 SB 820: Sacramento Extends California’s Best (Remaining) Tool For Brownfield Renewal

By Robert Doty

2016-11-09: Updated: 2016-11-09 15:20:27 Builder Update On School Fees In California

By R. Clark Morrison

2016-10-31: Updated: 2016-11-03 18:39:59 Avco at 40: What it Really Said About Vested Rights In California

By Tim Paone

2016-09-16: Updated: 2016-09-16 09:58:55 IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T HEARD . . .

By Christian H. Cebrian

2016-08-26: Updated: 2016-08-26 17:06:32 No Reverse CEQA Just Because of Existing Air Contaminants

By Christian H. Cebrian

2016-07-15: Updated: 2018-07-06 11:58:21 Emergency Groundwater Management Regulations Now in Effect, Certain to Make an Impact

By Kurt Whitman

2016-06-24: Updated: 2016-06-24 14:34:47 New Federal Law Fast Tracks Energy and Infrastructure Projects

By Lisa Patricio

2016-05-26: Updated: 2016-05-27 09:44:53 CEQA Reform and the California Supreme Court

By Andrew Sabey

2016-05-03: Updated: 2016-09-28 16:59:28 How Would “Justice Garland” Address Environmental Issues?

By Daniel Kolta

2016-04-20: Updated: 2016-04-28 11:05:11 Community Character is Not a CEQA Issue – Unless It’s About Aesthetics

By Tim Paone

2016-04-05: Updated: 2016-04-28 11:06:28 California Supreme Court To Hear Three Land Use And California Environmental Quality Act Cases In May

By Michael Zischke

2016-03-14: Updated: 2016-09-28 16:52:16 “Keep an Eye On” . . . Corps Wetlands Definition, Coastal Commission, LA Planning Initiatives, Inclusionary Rental Housing

By R. Clark Morrison, Alex DeGood, Tim Paone and Stephen Ryan

2016-02-22: Updated: 2016-03-18 10:57:51 How Will Justice Scalia’s Passing Impact Land Use?

By Tim Paone

2016-02-22: Updated: 2017-09-05 10:57:54 Is the Second Time the Charm? It’s Time to Comment on CEQA’s Proposed New Transportation Guidelines

By Linda Klein

2016-02-04: Updated: 2019-06-12 10:28:36 2015 CEQA Update – Summary of New Court Decisions, Statutory Changes and Proposed CEQA Guidelines Amendments

By Michael Zischke, David Waite, Kurt Whitman, Monica Briseño and Stephanie Straka

2015-12-09: Updated: 2016-02-23 12:04:46 SB 350 Marks California’s Next Step in Combating Climate Change

By Daniel Kolta

2015-12-09: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:24:54 A Development Agreement For Your Project — Who Gets To Choose?!

By R. Clark Morrison and Ronald Silverman

2015-12-04: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:39:27 The Developer’s Rights (or Lack Thereof) in the Face of Decision Maker Bias

By Kenneth Bley

2015-12-04: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:40:30 Just How Binding Is that Illegal, Immoral AND Un-American Condition on Your Project?

By Kenneth Bley

2015-12-02: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:43:00 Water Diverters Beware! The Third District Court of Appeal Opens the Regulatory Floodgates

By Scott Birkey

2015-11-30: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:42:10 The California Supreme Court Issues Important New Rulings on Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Fully Protected Species, and Requirements for California Environmental Quality Act Litigation

By Michael Zischke, Andrew Sabey and Linda Klein

2015-11-23: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:23:11 California Supreme Court To Render Decision on “Reverse CEQA”

By Erin Phalon

2015-11-11: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:22:23 Attorney’s Fees: Mine, Yours, and Theirs

By Kenneth Bley

2015-11-10: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:43:55 IS IT SAFE TO GO INTO THE WATER YET? OR WHEN IS A LAND USE PROJECT SAFE FROM LEGAL ATTACK?

By Kenneth Bley

2015-08-31: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:44:33 OPR Releases Preliminary Discussion Draft of Proposed Changes to CEQA Guidelines; CEQA Stakeholders are Invited to Submit Comments

By Michael Zischke, James Purvis and Christian H. Cebrian

2015-08-07: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:45:20 Supreme Court Sets Aside Statement of Overriding Considerations Because CSU Made Inadequate Findings of Mitigation Infeasibility

By Michael Zischke and James Purvis

2015-06-15: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:45:42 “Mixed-Income Development”: The California Supreme Court Declares that San Jose’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance is Valid

By Tim Paone and Kenneth Bley

2015-04-14: Updated: 2019-04-10 10:19:35 KEEP AN EYE ON . . .

By Tim Paone and Our Land Use & Natural Resources Team

2015-01-20: Updated: 2017-01-25 11:12:48 The California Environmental Quality Act – The Year 2014 in Review

By Michael Zischke

2015-01-20: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:47:22 BEWARE OF PLANNERS BEARING GIFTS

By Kenneth Bley

2015-01-20: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:48:29 In case you haven’t heard, there’s . . .

By Tim Paone

2015-01-19: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:49:17 Upping The Ante On Wetlands Mitigation

By R. Clark Morrison and Scott Birkey

2015-01-19: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:49:57 A Beachfront Hotel for Santa Cruz

By Anne E. Mudge and Linda Klein

2015-01-18: Updated: 2016-09-28 16:55:25 Courts Say Exactions Must Have a Nexus

By Alex DeGood

2014-12-09: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:51:16 Welcome

By David Waite and Tim Paone

2014-12-08: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:51:44 KEEP AN EYE ON . . .

By Our Land Use & Natural Resources Team

2014-12-08: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:52:08 What Do Lady Gaga, Conan O’Brien, and the California Legislature Have in Common?

By Scott Birkey

2014-12-08: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:52:31 New Policy Clarification from USFWS on Whether to List a Species May Itself Require Clarification… Among Environmentalists, It’s “All the Range”

By Scott Birkey

2014-12-08: Updated: 2016-09-28 16:57:55 The Sky’s the Limit – Sometimes

By Scott Birkey

2014-12-07: Updated: 2022-04-19 16:52:36 The Potential Impacts of SB 743: Did the Legislature Double Dribble?

By JoAnn Hadfield, Tim Paone, and Tony Petros

2014-12-07: Updated: 2016-02-23 12:01:57 Project EIR or Program EIR? “A Rose By Any Other Name . . . .”

By Andrew Sabey

2014-12-07: Updated: 2016-02-23 12:02:26 Density Bonus Update—Is AB 2222 Another Impediment to Solving California’s Affordable Housing Crisis?

By David Waite and Andrew Fogg

2014-12-07: Updated: 2016-02-23 12:02:55 California Supreme Court Decides CEQA Environmental Review Not Required For Council or Board Adoption of Voter-Sponsored Ballot Measures

By Michael Zischke and Andrew Sabey

2014-12-07: Updated: 2016-02-23 11:07:10 City of Los Angeles Billboard Ban Ruled Unconstitutional

By Lisa Patricio