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04.02.20

Counties Increase Restrictions Under Stay-At-Home Order, and That Is Just Fine With Governor Newsom

As California Governor Gavin Newsom reported preliminary, encouraging signs that his “stay at home” order is slowing the spread of COVID-19, Bay Area leaders acted to further restrict the number and types of employees who can go to work notwithstanding Governor Newsom’s ...


03.21.20

Governor Gavin Newsom Issues Stay-at-Home Order—Impact on Businesses in the Real Estate Industry

Governor Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home Executive Order N-33-20 adopted on March 19, 2020 (Order, a link to which and all noted authorities herein is provided below), imposed on all of California the greatest restrictions seen nationally to date to deal with the COVID-19 crisis.


09.24.18

CEQA Reform—Relief on Aesthetics? ‘I just don’t see it’

Just as the Court of Appeal inked and agreed to publish what many fear is a new and potentially sweeping avenue to challenge and invalidate negative declarations under the guise of “aesthetic” impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).


07.24.18

Will State Climate Policy Usurp Local Land Use Control?

The consequences of climate change are broadcast regularly: wildfires, sea-level rise, drought and others.