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Towards not reinventing the CEQA wheel: resources agency adopts new CEQA guidelines for streamlined review of urban infill development

Miller Starr Regalia
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USA
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May 8 2013

Repetitive CEQA review and analysis is expensive, unnecessary, unproductive, and inimical to the goals of certainty and finality in the environmental

Missing CEQA statute of limitations is not excusable neglect, Third District holds

Miller Starr Regalia
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USA
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May 1 2013

In its terse, no-nonsense opinion in Alliance For the Protection of the Auburn Community v. County of Placer, et al. (2013) 215 Cal.App.4th 25

First District holds CEQA remedies provision allows Park District’s eminent domain action to proceed pending preparation of project EIR so long as property not actually acquired

Miller Starr Regalia
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USA
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April 24 2013

In Golden Gate Land Holdings LLC v. East Bay Regional Park District (41213 1st Dist., Div. 5) _____ Cal.App.4th _____, 2013 WL 1491547, the First

California affirms equitable exceptions to the “merger doctrine”

Miller Starr Regalia
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USA
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April 17 2013

The merger doctrine is not absolute and its application will depend upon the equities and the parties' intentions, the California Court of Appeal

Residential project exempt from CEQA review under Government Code Section 65457 as consistent with specific plan for which program EIR previously certified

Miller Starr Regalia
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USA
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April 10 2013

In a recently published opinion construing Government Code 65457's exemption from environmental review for a residential development

Beware of deed of trust securing multiple loans: priorities may not be as they appear!

Miller Starr Regalia
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USA
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April 10 2013

In R.E. Loans LLC v. Investors Warranty of America, Inc. (2013) 212 Cal.App.4th 1432, the court of appeal decided that a subordination agreement was

The lesser of two evils? Court holds that statutory measure of recovery under a mechanic’s liens is the lesser of reasonable value of services and materials furnished or contract price

Miller Starr Regalia
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USA
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April 8 2013

In Appel v. Superior Court (No. B244590, 31113), California's Second District Court of Appeal held that the proper measure of a mechanic's lien

AB 900 CEQA reform law partially struck down

Miller Starr Regalia
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USA
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April 8 2013

Ruling from the bench at a March 29, 2013 hearing, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch found a key provision of an ambitious CEQA reform

Spring CEQA roundup

Miller Starr Regalia
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USA
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March 20 2013

Spring is here, and it seems the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government have all been busy trying to "clean up" CEQA and related

Second District rejects CEQA challenge to EIR for riverbed sand and gravel mining project, upholds Santa Barbara County’s discretion to formulate project-specific threshold of significance, and finds EIR’s erroneous “not significant” conclusion nonprejudi

Miller Starr Regalia
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USA
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March 11 2013

The Second District Court of Appeal upheld the County of Santa Barbara's Final Revised Environmental Impact Report for a 30-year conditional use