Civil Litigation,
Environmental & Energy,
California Courts of Appeal,
Administrative/Regulatory
Dec. 20, 2014
Growth pains, little reform for CEQA in 2014
Major California Environmental Quality Act reform continued to be elusive in 2014.
Nicki Carlsen
Partner
Alston & Bird LLP
Email: nicki.carlsen@alston.com
Nicki is co-chair of the firm's Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group
Major California Environmental Quality Act reform continued to be elusive in 2014. We got limited exceptions and legislative fixes for individual projects and project types, largely regarding the big planning issue of the day, transit-oriented development. Actual changes to CEQA were limited and specific in the best cases, and potentially counterproductive in others.
Some of the most prominent developments involved the unfolding of Senate Bill 375, a 2013 statute that mixed projec...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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