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In Carmel Valley Ass’n v. County of Monterey (2021) 2021 Cal.App.Unpub. LEXIS 3286, the Sixth District Court of Appeal reversed a decision granting a petition of mandate against the County of Monterey’s (County) approval of an environmentally superior alternative to...
In Ruegg & Ellsworth v. City of Berkeley (2021) 63 Cal.App.5th 277 the First District Court of Appeal decided the first published case addressing Senate Bill 35 (SB 35). The 2017 law allows qualifying projects with an affordable housing component...
On April 23, 2021, the First District Court of Appeal ordered partial publication of Stop Syar Expansion v. County of Napa (2021) 63 Cal.App.5th 444, a decision affirming the trial court’s denial of a writ of mandate challenging the sufficiency...
In Organizacion Comunidad de Alviso v. City of San Jose (2021) 60 Cal.App.5th 783 the Sixth District Court of Appeal held that failure to timely name the correct real party in interest required dismissal despite the City providing Petitioner with...
In Bldg. A Better Redondo v. City of Redondo Beach (2021) 2021 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1038, the Second District Court of Appeal upheld an $80,000 costs and $683,000 attorney fee award, following a partially successful CEQA challenge. The Court...
In Schmid v. City & County of San Francisco (Feb. 1, 2021, No. A158861) ___Cal.App.5th___ [2021 Cal. App. LEXIS 85] the First District Court of Appeal upheld a decision of the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) and Board of Supervisors of...
In Santa Clara Valley Water District v. San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (2020) Cal.App.LEXIS 1236, the First District Court of Appeal held that, under a plain reading of Public Resources Code section 21174, a responsible agency’s statutory...
In August, the Fourth District Court of Appeal released and published its opinion in Golden Door Properties, LLC v. Superior Court (2020) 53 Cal.App.5th 733, which recognizes that CEQA requires lead agencies to retain certain project-related records. See TLG’s coverage...
In Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods v. Regents of the University of California (2020) 51 Cal. App. 5th 226, the First District Court of Appeal overruled a demurrer rejecting community members’ allegations that the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) violated...
In Martis Camp Cmty. Ass’n v. County of Placer (2020) Cal.App. LEXIS 773, the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed and reversed portions of a judgment concerning the County’s partial abandonment of public easement rights in an emergency access road...
In Protecting Our Water & Environmental Resources v. County of Stanislaus (2020 Cal. LEXIS 5541) the California Supreme Court ruled the County of Stanislaus (County) violated CEQA by categorically classifying all well construction permits as ministerial projects exempt from CEQA...
In Golden Door Properties, LLC v. Superior Court of San Diego County, the Fourth District Court of Appeal overturned a San Diego Superior Court ruling denying Plaintiffs’ motions to compel discovery. The appellate court ruled Public Resources Code section 21167.6...