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Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

California’s 2025 CEQA Reforms: Impacts and Ambiguities with New Housing and More

In an effort to tackle California’s persistent housing shortage and accelerate infrastructure development, California has enacted the most substantial reform to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in decades and...more

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Chesterfield Zoning Ordinance Overhaul Moves to Board for Final Review

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In July, after a 6-year effort to overhaul its Zoning Ordinance, the Chesterfield Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of ZOMod moving it forward to the Board of Supervisors for a public hearing on September...more

Allen Matkins

Multifamily’s Evolution

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With the current housing shortage in California, coupled with recent regulatory changes, multifamily development is robust throughout the state. Perhaps the most consequential recent change is the reform of the California...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

California Budget Bills Plug Holes to Stop Certain Projects from Sinking

This is the 10th update in our series covering AB 130 and SB 131, two bills that work substantive changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and California housing law....more

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

Nossaman LLP

CEQA Reform is Here | Part 2: Vehicle Miles Traveled

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Part two of a three-part series - Governor Gavin Newsom signed two major budget trailer bills, AB 130 and SB 131, into law on June 30, 2025, bringing significant amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)...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

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Risks Remain For Housing Developers After Recent CEQA Reforms

On June 30, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law significant reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), seeking to promote housing projects in a state that desperately needs them. Much of...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Texas Enacts Critical Real Estate Reforms—Senate Bills 15, 17, 840

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Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top Prior to his June 22, 2025, deadline, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law hundreds of bills passed by the Texas Legislature. Three of these, Senate Bills 15, 17,...more

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Navigating the New Philadelphia Real Estate Landscape: Recent Legislative Changes Affect Development and Zoning

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In the last legislative session, the Philadelphia City Council passed several significant bills affecting real estate development and zoning, which are important for property owners and developers to understand....more

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Florida’s New “Prompt Processing” Requirement for Construction Contract Change Orders on Public Works Projects

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Effective July 1, 2025, Chapter 2025-140, Laws of Florida, titled an “Act Relating to Construction Regulations,” enacted House Bill 683. This bill makes several changes to Florida’s construction laws, including requirements...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Bill 17: Building Even Smarter and Faster Than Before?

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On May 12, 2025, the Honourable Rob Flack, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Minister), introduced Bill 17—the Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17). On June 5, 2025, Bill 17 received...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

AB 130 Accelerates the Permit Streamlining Act

This is the fourth update in our series covering AB 130 and SB 131, two bills that work substantive changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and California housing law. Click here to learn more about other...more

Downey Brand LLP

Wait, What? Major Changes to CEQA Slip into Law via Deft Maneuvering

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Much is discussed every year in the Legislature about how the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) needs reform. But the calls for change nearly always fail, aside from a few tinkering changes. This year is...more

Jones Day

Data Centres: One of the Winners as the English Planning System Adapts

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Since coming into power in July 2024, the UK government has made several planning policy decisions with the aim of facilitating data centre development....more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

CEQA Infill Exemptions and “Near Miss” Streamlining—A Concrete Fix for California’s Housing Crisis?

Note: This is the second update in our series covering AB 130 and SB 131, two bills that work substantive changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and California housing law....more

Miller Starr Regalia

State Budget Bill Includes Landmark CEQA and Housing Law Changes

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On June 30, 2025, Governor Newsom signed AB 130 and SB 131 into immediately effective law as budget trailer bills, marking a historic effort to accelerate housing production and to reform the CEQA review process that has been...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

District of Columbia TOPA Reform Alert

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When District of Columbia Council Chairman Phil Mendelson introduced the Rebalancing Expectations for Neighbors, Tenants and Landlords (RENTAL) Act, there were high hopes that much needed reform to the Tenant Opportunity to...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

California Real Estate Developers Optimistic About CEQA Reform

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On June 30, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 130 (AB 130) and Senate Bill 131 (SB 131), legislation that contains significant changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that...more

Nossaman LLP

Will California’s CEQA Reform Impact Condemnation? 

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Acquiring property for public projects typically does not occur until after the project has received environmental approval.  In California, complying with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) can sometimes take...more

Mayer Brown

California Legislation Eviscerates CEQA for Most Housing Projects

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In a monumental win for pro-housing advocates, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation essentially exempting most housing and mixed-use projects from CEQA....more

DLA Piper

Major pro-housing CEQA reform legislation signed into California law

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On June 30, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 130 (AB 130) and Senate Bill 131 (SB 131), both of which took effect immediately....more

Venable LLP

From Red Tape to Green Light: CEQA Reforms Fast-Track Infill Development

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The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) has long shaped the state’s development landscape, often entangling projects in lengthy permitting and litigation processes. That landscape has now shifted dramatically. ...more

Clark Hill PLC

CEQA finally brought to its knees by California’s severe housing crisis

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Originally enacted in 1970, the objective of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) was to review projects to assess potential impacts on the environment, disclose those impacts to the public, and mitigate those...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

California Legislature Enacts Significant Revisions To CEQA

On June 30, 2025, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 130 (AB 130) and Senate Bill 131 (SB 131), two budget trailer bills that significantly modify the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), effective immediately. The...more

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