Appellate court strikes down CEQA challenge on bridge project, saying the impact of wildfire safety issues on the project isn't a topic of analysis.

Methodological differences are not CEQA issues, court rules. >>read more

... There's no remedy in the law when a lead agency fails to notify an interested party, even though it's against the law. >>read more

Also on the legislative docket: Bills to restrict development in wildfire areas. >>read more

The pandemic, racial injustice, an end to California's population growth -- has California planning ever seen a year like this before? >>read more

The law has proven stubbornly resistant to reform. But cities and other lead agencies are learning how to end-run the whole process. >>read more

In followup to 2018 Cal Supremes ruling, appellate court rejects "partial decertification" of EIR. >>read more

Terraces Of Lafayette, featuring in Golden Gates, moves forward at final SB 330 council meeting, but opponents have filed a new CEQA lawsuit. >>read more

Among other things, the neighbors didn't seek to stop construction until the project was almost built. >>read more

SB 1120, the duplex bill, almost passed but ran out of time. None of the five bills proposed last spring by Senate leader Toni Atkins made it to the governor. >>read more