Legal Commentary on Planning and Development
By Stephen Kostka and Barbara Schussman
Senate Bill 743, enacted in 2013, was designed to create a process for changing the way traffic impacts are examined under CEQA. The concept was to take the focus away from vehicle delay, measured by level of service, which has resulted in mitigation requirements to increase intersection and road…
On March 25, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers jointly released a proposed rule defining waters that fall under the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act as “waters of the United States.” The wide sweep of the coverage afforded by the proposed rule, if finalized, would represent a significant…
