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King County’s Critical Areas Ordinance Update: What to Expect

King County is in the final stretch of updating its Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO), with adoption expected by December 2025. The CAO governs protections for environmentally sensitive areas—like wetlands, streams, aquifers,...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Clean Water Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Reno, Nevada Master-Planned Community Development Enter into Consent...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Nevada Tri Partners, LLC (“NTP”), and Damonte Ranch Commerce Center, LLC (“Damonte”) entered into a July 1st Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

OP-ED: Wading Through Changes: Floodplain Development in Oregon

As we enter what we hope will be a bountiful new year, 2025 may prove to be the annus horribilis for floodplain development in Oregon. Due to recent litigation concerning FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), as of...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

NYC CPC Certifies Zoning for Coastal Flood Resiliency Proposal for Public Review

On Oct. 19, 2020, the City Planning Commission certified for public review a proposed citywide text amendment known as Zoning for Coastal Flood Resiliency (ZCFR). The proposal seeks to update and make permanent those zoning...more

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29th Annual Land Use & Development Law Briefing - 2019

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Land Use and Development Case Summaries (short form) - 1. PLANNING AND ZONING - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE V. CITY OF MORENO VALLEY, 26 Cal. App. 5th 689 (2018) - Based on the language and...more

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Risks to Open Space Designated in General Plan’s Open Space Element a Valid Ground for Denying Application to Subdivide a...

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A city may deny a proposed mobilehome park subdivision that is inconsistent with the open space element of its general plan, according to the recent court of appeal decision in Carson Harbor Village, Ltd. v. City of Carson,...more

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