Description: Challenge to environmental review for the Upper Hearst Development Plan for Goldman School of Public Policy and Minor Amendment to the 2020 Long Range Development Plan for Berkeley, including failure to assess or mitigate impacts on climate change.
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Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods v. Regents of University of California
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Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 04/27/2023 Opinion Download Trial court’s judgment granting writ petition vacated and matter remanded to the trial court to enter an order dismissing the petition. California Appellate Court Said Challenge to Earlier Analysis of UC Berkeley Increased Enrollment Was Moot. The California Court of Appeal held that challenges to the analysis of the environmental impacts of increased enrollment at the University of California, Berkeley, were moot because the Regents of the University of California had certified a new environmental impact report (EIR) and California had enacted legislation that restricted California Environmental Quality Act reviews of the impacts of increased enrollment. The new EIR’s analysis of the impacts of increased enrollment focused on seven categories, one of which was greenhouse gas emissions. -
Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods v. Regents of the University of California
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Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 03/03/2022 Order Regents' petition for review and application for stay denied. -
Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods v. Regents of the University of California
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Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 02/10/2022 Order Regents' request for temporary stay and the petition for writ of supersedeas denied. -
Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods v. Regents of the University of California
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Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 08/23/2021 Judgment Download Petitions for writ of mandate granted. The court found that the university's environmental review was legally insufficient and that a reduced enrollment alternative should have been considered. Climate change issues were not discussed in the court's decision. 06/13/2019 Petition for Writ of Mandate Download Petition for writ of mandate filed.