David L. Preiss is a Partner and Emily Martinez Lieban
is an Associate both in our
San Francisco office
In the recently published Sacramentans
for Fair Planning v. City of Sacramento, No. C086182,
(Cal. Ct. App. July 3, 2019), the California Court of Appeal
rejected challenges to the land use approvals and related
environmental determinations for a 15-story, 134-unit housing/mixed
use project located in midtown Sacramento, California. This is the
first Court of Appeal decision to address environmental review
using a Sustainable Communities Environmental Assessment (SCEA)
under Senate Bill 375.
CEQA
Petitioner Sacramentans for Fair Planning challenged the
city's reliance on the recently adopted streamlining provisions
established by the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection
Act, commonly known as SB 375.
