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Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Cutting Through California's Housing Crisis: Are New CEQA Exemptions Enough?

As discussed in our earlier post, California's CEQA landscape has rapidly, and potentially seismically, evolved with the passage of AB 130 and SB 131. This post focuses on the immediate creation of a new statutory exemption,...more

Holland & Knight LLP

California's Summer Blockbuster, Continued!: Newly Enacted Non-Housing CEQA Reforms

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Senate Bill (SB) 131 includes important California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exemptions for qualified advanced manufacturing projects, health centers and rural clinics, childcare centers, food banks, farmworker...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

“Near-Miss” CEQA Streamlining: New Option to Reduce Scope of Review for Housing Development Projects

Following up on our earlier coverage of the new California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exemption passed as part of budget trailer bill AB 130, another significant CEQA pathway was created through its companion...more

Venable LLP

Green Fast Track for Housing Rule to Streamline Residential Development in NYC

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As part of Mayor Eric Adams' "Get Stuff Built" initiative to increase housing supply and reduce regulatory constraints on new development, the New York City Planning Commission approved the Green Fast Track for Housing Rule...more

Downey Brand LLP

Residential Development Project Consistent with Specific Plan Found Exempt from Further CEQA Review

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In Citizens’ Committee to Complete the Refuge v. City of Newark (2021) 74 Cal.App.5th 460, the First District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s ruling that a residential project in a specific plan area in the city of...more

Stinson LLP

CATEX Controversy: The Ninth Circuit Strikes Down FAA Decision to Exempt a Sea-Tac Operational Change from Environmental Review

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The process for approving changes in airport operations and development projects may now be more complicated, time-consuming, expensive and uncertain, due to a new federal appeals court decision. The decision faults the...more

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CEQA Project Baseline Should Not Have Been Set Prior to Demolition of Historic Structure

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The Fourth District Court of Appeal held that the project baseline under CEQA for construction of a new home did not include demolition of a potential historic structure that had occurred before submittal of a permit...more

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