Environmental Impact Report (EIR), Land Use Restrictions

An Overview of Santa Barbara County’s Agricultural Enterprise Ordinance

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 8/29/2023

The County of Santa Barbara’s proposed Agricultural Enterprise Ordinance would expand the range of activities on farms and ranches (all unincorporated lands zoned AG-II), and allow incidental food service at wine tasting...more

Sustainable Development and Land Use Update - October 2020

Allen Matkins on 10/2/2020

New law aims to increase individual home ownership in California - Bullet SFGate – September 29 - A bill prompted by the Moms 4 Housing occupation of a vacant West Oakland home late last year and signed by Governor...more

Sustainable Development and Land Use Update - July 2020

Allen Matkins on 7/2/2020

ACEEE highlights 10 building energy performance standards to help meet climate goals - Bullet Utility Dive – June 24 - The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) released a white paper this Monday...more

California Court Issues First Decision Addressing SCEA Environmental Review

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/30/2019

• Sacramentans for Fair Planning v. City of Sacramento is a case of first impression holding that cities and counties may continue to rely on the streamlined environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act...more

Possibility that Zoning Standards Might Be Violated in Final Design Did Not Mandate EIR at Tentative Map Stage

Perkins Coie on 10/29/2018

A project opponent’s argument that the project might violate zoning laws in the future is not sufficient to require a city to prepare an EIR under CEQA. Friends of Riverside’s Hills v. City of Riverside, 26 Cal.App.5th 1137...more

Ballot Box Alternatives To CEQA And Land Use Litigation: Recent Developments In The Law Of Initiatives And Referenda

Miller Starr Regalia on 3/17/2017

Land use litigators know that CEQA provides a potent weapon to challenge local government decisions affecting land use and development. It is often easy to plead a CEQA claim challenging such decisions, and CEQA will...more

Court Defers to City’s General Plan Consistency Findings, Upholding Infill Residential Development Project

Miller Starr Regalia on 11/9/2016

On November 7, 2016, the Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District reversed and remanded a trial court decision addressing a neighborhood group’s challenge to a 328-unit infill residential project in the City of...more

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