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The professional’s legal guide to CEQA, cited as an authoritative source by California Courts, and serving as resource for the most significant judicial decisions interpreting the Act, with expert summaries and commentary. It is the principal reference commonly used by planners, environmental specialists, authors of EIRs, attorneys, environmental activists, and others who deal regularly with CEQA. |
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Guide to CEQA
The first revision to the Guide to the California Environmental Quality Act in seven years, the 2006 (11th) edition has been updated and comprehensively revised. More than seven years of additional new CEQA legal principles have been incorporated into the Guide. This edition has been updated with changes to the CEQA Guidelines, Statute and case law made in late 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and mid-2006 and includes:
- Analysis of more than 100 CEQA cases issued between 1999 and mid-2006, including a comprehensive discussion of Communities for a Better Environment v. California Resources Agency (3d Dist. 2002) 103 Cal.App.4th 98 [126 Cal.Rptr.2d 441], in which the Court of Appeal invalidated certain CEQA Guidelines adopted in 1998.
- Revisions to reflect and analyze the February 2001, July 2003, September 2004, and October 2005 amendments to the CEQA guidelines.
- Analysis of all the statutory changes made to CEQA between 1999 and mid-2006.
The 2006 edition also includes expanded discussions on a number of topics addressed in less detail in previous editions. Some of the more significant changes to the book are:
- New chapter on water supply planning and CEQA. Because courts have been exceptionally focused on water supply planning and water supply analysis in the context of CEQA compliance, an entirely new chapter on the nexus between CEQA and water supply planning has been added:
- Analysis of SB 221 and SB 610, which require water supply availability analysis at various stages of the local land use CEQA and environmental review process.
- These legislative developments have been matched by an equally active judiciary. The Guide discusses the seminal cases in this area including:
- Stanislaus Natural Heritage Project v. County of Stanislaus (5th Dist. 1996) 48 Cal.App.4th 182 [55 Cal.Rptr.2d 625]
- County of Amador v. El Dorado County Water Agency (3d Dist. 1999) 76 Cal.App.4th 931 [91 Cal.Rptr.2d 66]
- Planning and Conservation League v. Department of Water Resources (3d Dist. 2000) 83 Cal.App.4th 892 [100 Cal.Rptr.2d 173]
- Napa Citizens for Honest Government v. Napa County Board of Supervisors (1st Dist. 2001) 91 Cal.App.4th 342 [110 Cal.Rptr.2d 579]
- Santa Clarita Organization for Planning the Environment v. County of Los Angeles (2d Dist. 2003) 106 Cal.App.4th 715 [131 Cal.Rptr.2d 186]
- State Water Resources Control Board Cases (3d Dist. 2006) 136 Cal.App.4th 674 [139 Cal.Rptr.3d 189]
- California Oak Foundation v. City of Santa Clarita (2d Dist. 2005) 133 Cal.App.4th 1219 [35 Cal.Rptr.3d 434]
- Significant reorganization. The book, which was formerly eleven chapters, has been substantially reorganized. It is now seventeen chapters, and includes hundreds of new headers and cross references, in order to make the book more user friendly.
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