Each year, it is a real challenge to select the top ten real estate cases for our annual overview.
Projects in coastal zones are more complicated because there will likely be a coastal land-use plan and the coastal commission can influence whether they go forward.
Three recent decisions under CEQA focus on determining the “environmental baseline” against which a proposed project’s potentially significant impacts must be measured.
Can the California Environmental Quality Act meaningfully address the significant and perhaps inevitable environmental consequences of climate change through its project specific review?
Throughout the West, and indeed throughout the country, the building and development industry is facing a new challenge.
Increasingly, Western communities- particularly urban areas-are using an approach known as "low-impact development" (LID) to control stormwater pollution.