Book Description

For over three decades, this book has provided a succinct and definitive summary of the major provisions of California's land use and planning laws. Curtin's has been cited by the California Supreme Court and numerous appellate courts as an authoritative source. This thirty-fourth edition contains new, expanded discussions of several topics, including: ¿ Analysis of new California Supreme Court case law on the proper identification of an environmental baseline under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (chapter 6) ¿ New and expanded analysis of the legal standards relating to an agency¿s establishment of significance thresholds under CEQA (chapter 6) ¿ Discussion of the United States Supreme Court¿s decision in Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, which expands application of the ¿nexus¿ and ¿rough proportionality¿ standards the Court previously established in Nollan and Dolan (chapter 12) ¿ New discussion of recent judicial guidance on the handling of climate change impacts in CEQA documents (chapter 16) ¿ Treatment of several new decisions affecting affordable housing programs, including application of the Density Bonus Law and the procedure for bringing a legal challenge to inclusionary programs (chapter 15) ¿ Expanded discussion of state and federal endangered species protection, including new regulation governing how agencies consider economic effects when designating critical habitat and new law on federal agency consultation with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (chapter 8)