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Perspective

Mar. 20, 2012

CEQA traffic chaos: potential new standard of project analysis

A tentative opinion by the 2nd District offers hope that traffic studies will return to how it has always been done. By James L. Arnone, Winston Stromberg and Michele L. Leonelli of Latham & Watkins LLP


By James L. Arnone, Winston Stromberg and Michele L. Leonelli


In a potentially major development for real estate and infrastructure projects across the state, the 2nd District Court of Appeal is poised to clash with the 6th and 5th Districts over how lead agencies are supposed to analyze potential traffic impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act. If so, that could be very welcoming to many public agencies across California, and to many people ...

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