June 2017 marks Pareto Planning’s fifteenth-year anniversary. It has been a wonderful 15 years. We would like to extend our thanks to our clients and the other planning professionals with whom we have worked. We are excited about the next ten years and continuing to meet your planning and environmental needs.
This case Is useful from a EIR consultant’s perspective because it is an important “piecemealing” or “project splitting” case. In this case the Plaintiff, Banning Ranch Conservancy contended the EIR wrongly defined the project to exclude the pending residential and commercial development on an adjacent property, Banning Ranch. It claimed the park and development were […]
This case Is useful from a EIR consultant’s perspective because it rearticulates standards associated with the adequacy of water supply analysis and because it addresses the relationship between project objectives and alternatives. In this case the City “certified an environmental impact report (EIR) for a project to amend the City’s sphere of influence (SOI) to […]
This case addresses the question of whether CEQA review can be avoided if project approval is accomplished via an initiative petition in combination with City Council approval, in the absence of an actual election. According the court: “It is settled that when a development project is approved by means of a ballot initiative placed on […]
CEQA, CEQA CaseIn this case the court held that the City of Monterey Park’s “Measure BB merely established a competitive bidding process for future waste services contracts; the new manner of awarding such contracts is a “fiscal activity” which does not involve a commitment to a specific project and therefore does not constitute a project subject to […]
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The MRCA has adopted the Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) for Marsh Park prepared by Pareto Planning, ending the environmental process for this wonderful 3-acre park project located along the Los Angeles River Greenway Trail in the Elysian Valley community, in the City of Los Angeles. Improvements to the three-acre site will include an open-air picnic […]
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For those of you interested in California history, you might want to check out the California Historical Society’s (CHS’s) great free interactive eBook on the history of the Golden Gate Bridge which is available for download from iTunes or the CHS website. The book is part of CHS’s wonderful exhibit “A Wild Flight of the […]
June 2012 marks Pareto Planning’s ten-year anniversary. It has been a wonderful ten years. We have enjoyed the projects and people we have worked with over the last ten years, and would like to extend our thanks to our clients and the other planning professionals with whom we have worked. We are excited about the […]
In this case the court ruled that the exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies requirement set forth in subdivision (a) of section 21177 applies to a public agency’s decision that a proposed project is categorically exempt from CEQA compliance as long as: (1) the public agency gives notice of the ground for its exemption determination, and (2) that determination is […]
CEQA, CEQA Case(2012) , Cal.App.4th [No. F063534. Fifth Dist. Apr. 26, 2012, Opinion Certified For Partial Publication] This case addresses what documents are properly parts of the administrative record in a CEQA case, and is useful for individuals preparing comments on environmental documents, CEQA consultants, Lead Agencies and litigators seeking to augment the administrative record in a […]
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