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Newly Enacted California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Reforms: Legal Insights and Current Litigation Strategies to Defend Housing Projects

California’s 2025 CEQA reforms create new housing exemptions and litigation strategies to accelerate development while curbing environmental review abuse.

2025-09-18 13:00:00

Program Details

2025-09-18 13:00:00

2025-09-18 13:00:00

1h CLE Credits

Program Details

2025-09-18 13:00:00

Program Details

2025-09-18 13:00:00

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2025-09-18 13:00:00

Course Overview

Navigating California's 2025 CEQA Housing Reforms

2025-09-18 13:00:00

Participants will master new CEQA exemptions, streamlining mechanisms, and litigation strategies for housing development under AB 130 and SB 131. Apply these tools to accelerate project approvals while defending against abusive environmental challenges.

Format

CLE Credit

1h CLE Credits

Level

Intermediate

Length

1

Key topics that will be covered

01
Statutory Exemptions
New CEQA exemptions for infill housing with specific size, density, and location requirements.
02
Near-Miss Exemptions
Projects failing one eligibility condition may proceed through streamlined environmental review.
03
VMT Mitigation
Significant VMT impacts may be mitigated through contributions to a state-administered fund.
04
Litigation Reforms
Lead agency exemption determinations are now final unless timely challenged within 35 days.
05
State Preemption
Housing Accountability Act limits local authority to deny zoning-compliant housing projects.
06
Procedural Defenses
Bond requirements and motions to strike provide tools against politically motivated CEQA lawsuits.

Program schedule

clock 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST

Legal Insights on California's 2025 CEQA Overhaul

This session examines the statutory eligibility criteria and procedural requirements under AB 130 and SB 131, including the new infill housing exemptions, natural and protected lands definitions, and documentation requirements. Attendees will explore litigation risks, administrative record reforms, VMT mitigation strategies, and the interplay between CEQA compliance and federal NEPA requirements for projects with dual regulatory triggers.

Liz KlebanerLiz Klebaner
Daniel R. GolubDaniel R. Golub
clock 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm EST

CEQA Litigation: Curbing Abuse and Housing Preemption

This session addresses how CEQA has been weaponized as a delay tactic against housing development and examines the historical context of exclusionary zoning practices. Participants will learn about preemption arguments under the Housing Accountability Act, procedural responses including bond requirements and anti-SLAPP motions, and recent court trends favoring state housing goals over local control.

Liz KlebanerLiz Klebaner
Daniel R. GolubDaniel R. Golub
Liz Klebaner

Liz Klebaner

Nossaman LLP

Daniel R. Golub

Daniel R. Golub

Holland & Knight

Liz Klebaner

Liz Klebaner

Nossaman LLP

Liz is a partner with Nossaman LLP and a member of the Environment and Land Use Practice Group. She advises public agency and private entity clients on environmental compliance and litigation matters, CEQA, NEPA, the Freedom of Information Act, and California Public Records Act compliance and litigation.

Experience

Her work includes counseling clients on the development of an integrated and long-term project development strategy that maximizes CEQA and NEPA streamlining opportunities and coordinates permitting requirements under state and federal law. She also advises clients on California's rapidly changing requirements for CEQA compliance and litigation.
Daniel R. Golub

Daniel R. Golub

Holland & Knight

Daniel R. Golub is a partner in the West Coast Land Use and Environment Group in Holland & Knight’s San Francisco office, bringing nearly a decade of policy, planning and political organizing experience to his practice.

Experience

He has litigation experience gained during an 18-month clerkship for the Honorable Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He has a wealth of experience representing plaintiffs, defendants and real parties in interest, and achieving victories on behalf of developers, nonprofit organizations and public agencies in the courts and in the permitting and entitlement process.
Liz Klebaner

Liz Klebaner

Nossaman LLP

Liz is a partner with Nossaman LLP and a member of the Environment and Land Use Practice Group. She advises public agency and private entity clients on environmental compliance and litigation matters, CEQA, NEPA, the Freedom of Information Act, and California Public Records Act compliance and litigation.

Experience

Her work includes counseling clients on the development of an integrated and long-term project development strategy that maximizes CEQA and NEPA streamlining opportunities and coordinates permitting requirements under state and federal law. She also advises clients on California's rapidly changing requirements for CEQA compliance and litigation.
Daniel R. Golub

Daniel R. Golub

Holland & Knight

Daniel R. Golub is a partner in the West Coast Land Use and Environment Group in Holland & Knight’s San Francisco office, bringing nearly a decade of policy, planning and political organizing experience to his practice.

Experience

He has litigation experience gained during an 18-month clerkship for the Honorable Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He has a wealth of experience representing plaintiffs, defendants and real parties in interest, and achieving victories on behalf of developers, nonprofit organizations and public agencies in the courts and in the permitting and entitlement process.

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