Either way, CEQA will be different in the future. But will the change be comprehensive or incremental?

But appellate criticizes CalGEM for mixing exemption with initial study.

An appellate court has upheld San Francisco’s decision to use streamlined environmental review for a proposed housing project that incorporates an historic library, essentially upholding the city’s use of tiering off of its housing element environmental impact report. The ruling is unpublished and therefore cannot be used as precedent in other cases.

The question posed in one panel at the California Chapter, American Planning Association, conference last week was whether the California Environmental Quality Act should live or die. Everybody had a paddle – not to swat each other, but to vote yes or no. And despite the fact that most of the people in the room make their living as CEQA practitioners, the vote was surprisingly close.

In a complicated but unpublished ruling, an appellate court overturned a Santa Cruz judge's decision.

A roundup -- and explanation -- of all the relevant planning and legislation that will beome law this year.

In a case from Menifee, an appellate court rules that a project's sound wall was a mitigation and therefore the Class 32 exemption can't be applied.

Governor said the legislation had too many bells and whistles on it.

The bill declaring CEQA analysis on a big San Diego project "good enough" may create a new path for politically influential projects.

In case from Los Gatos, appellate court says acceptance of land dedication is discretionary -- meaning the lot -ine adjustment is subject to CEQA

Appellate court says Laguna Beach can't remove inventory without examining each individual historic property under CEQA

San Luis Obispo County can’t approve a subdivision map because a condition involving the Coastal Commission has not yet been met, the Second District Court of Appeal has ruled.