Miller Starr Regalia’s Land Use & CEQA Developments Update for July 2016

Miller Starr Regalia’s

Land Use & CEQA Developments Monthly Update

July 2016

Land Use Developments

 

July 5, 2016Court Rejects City’s Anti-SLAPP Claim Regarding Would-Be NFL Stadium in Carson

 

July 5, 2016Development Project May be Declared Consistent with General Plan Even if Quantitative Standards Exceeded

 

July 14, 2016Court Rejects General Plan Consistency Challenge Regarding City’s Approval of Franchise Retail Store Where Applicable Economic Development Goals and Policies are Alleged to Favor Small, Independent Businesses

 

July 21, 2016Unsubstantiated Challenges to an Agency’s Conditional Use Permit Findings Will Not Fly

 

July 28, 2016Prevailing Parties in Land Use Litigation May Recover Attorney’s Fees for Preparation of Administrative Record

 

CEQA Developments

 

July 8, 2016Supreme Court CEQA Subsequent Review Case Briefing Completed And Case Submitted (Apparently)

 

July 11, 2016AEP Launches New CEQA Portal Website As Compliance Resource

 

July 13, 2016CEQA Remedies Statute Does Not Authorize Appellate Court To Issue Writ And Supervise Compliance On Direct Appeal, Holds Second District In Partially Published Decision On Remand In Newhall Ranch Case

 

July 14, 2016Fourth District Holds Non-Expert Opinion Fails To Support “Fair Argument” Under CEQA That Approval of Non-Regional Retail Store In Joshua Tree Would Cause Urban Decay

 

July 26, 2016Discovery Rule Does Not Postpone Accrual of CEQA Cause of Action; Events Specified In CEQA Statute of Limitations Provide Constructive Notice of Project Approval or Commencement

 

July 27, 2016Second District Upholds Application of CEQA’s Class 3 Categorical Exemption For New Small Structures To City’s Approval of Small Car Wash/Coffee Shop Project, Rejects Appellants’ Attempt To Invoke Unusual Circumstances Exception

 

 

About the Authors

Bryan W. Wenter, AICP

Bryan W. Wenter is a shareholder in Miller Starr Regalia’s Walnut Creek office and a member of the firm’s Land Use Practice Group. His areas of expertise include general plans and specific plans, planned development zoning, vested rights, subdivision maps, development impact fees and exactions, conditional use permits, variances, initiatives and referenda, RLUIPA, CEQA, Ralph M. Brown Act, and Public Records Act. He previously served as City Attorney and Assistant City Attorney for the City of Walnut Creek.

 

Arthur F. Coon

Arthur F. Coon is the Co-Chair of Miller Starr Regalia’s Land Use Practice Group and Chair of its Appellate Practice Group. Art has distinguished himself over a nearly 30-year career as a top CEQA and land use law litigator at the trial and appellate levels of both federal and state courts, including an appearance as counsel of record before the U.S. Supreme Court. His areas of expertise include land use, environmental law, the law of public agencies, extraordinary writs, and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

 

Miller Starr Regalia

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than fifty years.  For nearly all that time, our firm has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 4th, a 12-volume encyclopedia on California real estate law.  We call it “the Book.”  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.  Our firm has expertise in all real property matters, including full-service litigation and dispute resolution services, transactions, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, common interest development, construction, management, title insurance, environmental law, and redevelopment and land use.  For more information, visit www.msrlegal.com.

 

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