Welcome to CEQA News You Can Use, a quarterly production of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP’s Natural Resources lawyers. This publication provides quick, useful bites of CEQA news, which we hope can be a resource to your...more
On January 26, 2018, the California Natural Resources Agency (Resources Agency) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines. After holding public comment...more
The California Legislature has been active during 2018 in introducing legislation designed, in part (i) to exempt affordable housing projects in “Opportunity Zones” from the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”), (ii)...more
July 2, 2018 marked another significant step toward completion of the years-long journey of the first major CEQA Guidelines update in decades. The California Natural Resources Agency gave notice on July 2, 2018 of its...more
On August 11, 2015, the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) released a Preliminary Discussion Draft of Changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines (Preliminary Discussion Draft). The OPR...more