CASE UPDATES: CEQA, Attorney-Client Privilege and Parking); and the Public...
This month’s Land Use Update features: 1) a CEQA case clarifying several issues about what must be included in an administrative record, including attorney-client privilege issues; 2) a CEQA case...
View ArticleCASE UPDATE: Coastal Permit Condition Requiring Beach/Coastal Access Easement...
In Bowman v. California Coastal Commission, (2014) —Cal.Rptr.3d– (2014 WL 5390057), the court held that the Coastal Commission and the trial court erred in imposing a lateral coastal access easement as...
View ArticleCASE UPDATE: There Are No ‘Comply Under Protest’ Provisions For Coastal...
In Lynch v. California Coastal Commission, (2014) 229 Cal.App.4th 658, the court of appeal held that a coastal permit applicant could not submit to coastal permit conditions of approval and reserve the...
View ArticleCASE UPDATE: Court Affirms Coastal Commission’s Authority to Issue Cease,...
Hagopian v. State (2nd Dist. 2014), 2014 WL 265517, involved a challenge to Coastal Commission permitting and enforcement authority brought by egregious Coastal Act violators. The plaintiffs purchased...
View ArticleCase Update: Appellate Court Holds That Coastal Act Protections Supersede...
In Kalnel Gardens, LLC v. City of Los Angeles, (2016) 3 Cal.App.5th 927, the court of appeal held that affordable housing requirements set forth in the Density Bonus Act (Gov. Code § 65915 et seq.) and...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court Holds That Landowners Forfeited Their Right to Bring...
In Lynch v. Coastal Commission, 5 Cal.5th 470 (2017), the California Supreme Court held that California residents who began construction of a cliffside seawall and stairway project, for which they had...
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