A catch-all provision in the County’s encroachment permit checklist requiring “[o]ther information as may be required” violated the Permit Streamlining Act because it failed to specify required information with sufficient detail. However, the court upheld the County’s determination that a grading permit application was incomplete, finding that County code provisions identifying when CEQA applies and requiring a CEQA indemnification agreement, read together with the grading permit checklist, satisfied the Act’s requirement to specify completeness criteria and justified requests for CEQA-related information.
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