Environmental Review

Lithium Valley Specific Plan Imperial County In 2022, the California Legislature approved SB 125 which allocated funding for the development of plans for geothermal energy development and lithium extraction, processing, production, and related manufacturing activities within Imperial County. The Lithium Valley Specific Plan and PEIR will expedite the development and permitting of lithium extraction, lithium [...]

Workshops The Firm has extensive experience conducting training, workshops, and public presentations specifically tailored to our public agencies clients. Our attorneys’ experience teaching topics including but not limited to land use, CEQA, RLUIPA, climate changes and sustainability, wildfire resiliency, NEPA and many other topics through such august organizations as UCLA Extension, the State of California [...]

General Permit for Napa and Sonoma County Vineyards San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) The Firm provided strategic CEQA advice and EIR legal review services for a new RWQCB Waste Discharge Requirements General Permit regulating vineyards in the Napa and Sonoma Creek watersheds. The General Permit requires existing and proposed vineyards [...]

University of California, Riverside Long-Range Development Plan University of California Office of General Counsel Member of a select and small number of outside law firms assisting the Office of the General Counsel with the majority of their land use and environmental matters, a significant portion of which will involve California Environmental Quality Act [...]

Campus Town Center Specific Plan City of Seaside In December 2016, the City of Seaside entered into a Purchase and Sale agreement with the KB Bakewell Development Partnership to develop 122 acres on the former Fort Ord Army Base. This development is directly south of the California State University – Monterey Bay campus, [...]

Public-Private Partnerships (P3) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (METRO) SLG serves as bench counsel to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority ("LACMTA") in connection with the delivery of high priority transportation-related projects in Los Angeles County through the framework of its public private partnership (“P3”) program. SLG is posed to provide [...]

California Public Utilities Commission CEQA and NEPA Review for Numerous Energy and Transmission Projects Since 2006, we have provided the CPUC’s Energy Division with CEQA advice on complex issues related to transmission and energy planning.  In the course of this work, we have reviewed dozens of the CPUC’s EIRs, MNDs, MMRPs, Findings, SOCs [...]

General Plans Updates, Amendments, Environmental Impact Reports and Litigation The Firm assists public agencies throughout California with updates, amendments, and the supporting environmental documents to their General Plans.  We assist agencies in preparing the mostly legally defensible documents possible, and, if necessary, represent the agency in any subsequent litigation.  The Firm has reviewed [...]

Santa Clara Valley Water District Santa Clara Valley The Firm has represented Santa Clara Valley Water District as outside CEQA counsel since 2010. The firm has provided CEQA strategic advice, detailed CEQA document review, and litigation services for over 20 different water supply and flood management projects. Projects include EIR/EIS reviews for the [...]

LAX Airfield & Terminal Modernization Project City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports As part of our long-standing role as special CEQA Counsel to Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), we are lead CEQA counsel for the proposed LAX Airfield & Terminal Modernization Project (ATMP). The proposed project includes airfield enhancements to increase [...]