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Prof. Ramo’s articles on recent environmental law cases in CEB’s Real Property Law Reporter
I have short comments in CEB’s Real Property Law Reporter January 2012 edition. They are: CEQA’s Slippery Slope of Performance Standards: Two Recent Cases Help (A Little) and Can Greenhouse Gas Polluters Be Sued for Damages Under Federal Public Nuisance … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Land Use
CEQA “PAPER WATER” AFTER WILD SANTEE ─ EVALUATION OF COURT-IMPOSED ESA LIMITS ON DIVERSIONS IN EIRS
Paul Stanton Kibel (Associate Professor and CUEL Co-Director, Golden Gate University School of Law) With its October 2012 ruling in Preserve Wild Santee v. City of Santee (Wild Santee), the California Court of Appeal issued a decision that may expand … Continue reading
Posted in Land Use, Work on Water
Prof. Ramo’s New Article on Environmental Justice and NEPA and CEQA Environmental Review
Posted by Prof. Ramo Given the push by industry groups to reform California’s Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) statute (for example see yesterday’s column by two San Francisco Bay Area business groups) blog readers may want to read my newly published … Continue reading
Posted in Air and Environmental Justice, Land Use
CEQA cover’s impacts to environment; not environment’s impact to projects.
A new column by Prof. Ramo in San Francisco’s legal newspaper, The Recorder, addresses a line of cases under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) culminating in the Ballona case late last year which addressed whether a project need be … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Land Use
CALIFORNIA COURT OF APPEAL SMART RAIL CEQA DECISION ─ RETHINKING BASELINE CONDITIONS IN LIGHT OF PROJECTED CLIMATE CHANGE
Paul Stanton Kibel, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center on Urban Environmental Law (CUEL) at Golden Gate University School of Law It is now well established that environmental impact reports (EIRs) prepared pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Land Use
City Support of Urban Agriculture Stops Short of Potential to Decrease Rising Food Insecurity
By Luthien Niland, 3rd Year Law Student As city departments struggle to determine how to feed the tens of thousands of food insecure San Francisco residents, an amendment to the Planning Code passed under the radar of most San Francisco … Continue reading
Posted in Land Use
Proposed CEQA Streamlining Guidelines – Expediting Infill But At What Cost?
By Jason Holder (Associate with Environmental Practice Group at Fitzgerald Abbott & Beardsley LLP) The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) recently released proposed regulations for the implementation of Public Resources Code sections 21094.5 and 21094.5.5 (http://opr.ca.gov/docs/Proposed_CEQA_Guidelines_Section_15183.3.pdf). These two … Continue reading
Posted in Land Use
CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT’S MATOSANTOS DECISION – THE END OF REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES IN CALIFORNIA?
By Jon-Erik W. Magnus* For more than half a century, redevelopment agencies (RDAs) have played a central role in transforming California’s cities. The effect of RDAs on California’s urban landscape is much debated. As a local example, the San Francisco … Continue reading
Posted in Land Use