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Environmental

Aug. 10, 2013

Future conditions properly considered

The state high court recently held that an agency has discretion to study a project's impacts compared to future conditions under CEQA. By James L. Arnone, Duncan Joseph, Winston P. Stromberg and Michele L. Leonelli


By James L. Arnone, Duncan Joseph Moore, Winston P. Stromberg and Michele L. Leonelli


In a major development for real estate and infrastructure projects across California, on Aug. 5 the state Supreme Court issued a split decision in Neighbors for Smart Rail v. Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority, et al., 2013 DJDAR 10304, a California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, challenge to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's "Exposition ...

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