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Center for Biological Diversity v. County of Kern

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / California
Year
2020
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
Center for Biological Diversity v. County of Kern

About this case

Filing year
2020
Status
Petition for writ of mandate filed.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → California
Docket number
BCV-20-100080
Court/admin entity
United States → State Courts → California Superior Court (Cal. Super. Ct.)
Case category
State Law Claims (US) → State Impact Assessment Laws (US)
Principal law
United States → California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
At issue
Challenges to approvals of a project in California that would include 12,000 dwelling units, up to 5.1 million square feet of commercial land uses, and a development footprint of 4,643 acres.
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Documents

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01/10/2020
Petition for writ of mandate filed.
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court challenging Kern County’s approvals of a project that would include 12,000 dwelling units, up to 5.1 million square feet of commercial land uses, and a development footprint of 4,643 acres. The petition asserted that the County failed to adequately analyze or mitigate the project’s greenhouse gas impacts. The petitioner contended that the County should have required the project to be “zero net energy” and should have required distributed or rooftop solar installations.
Petition
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Summary

Challenges to approvals of a project in California that would include 12,000 dwelling units, up to 5.1 million square feet of commercial land uses, and a development footprint of 4,643 acres.

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Policy instrument
Risk
Impacted group
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Finance