Legal Alerts Dec 14, 2020
New Tribal Consultation Process for Multi-Family Housing
California’s AB 168 Adds Requirements to Approval Process
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Sarah serves on the Association of Environmental Professionals Statewide Legislative Committee advising on CEQA legislation.
Sarah has successfully defended against challenges to the adequacy of environmental impact reports and site plans.
She is a recipient of the Daily Journal’s Environmental California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award in 2017 and Northern California Super Lawyers Magazine selected her as a “Northern California Super Lawyer” for Land Use Law in 2013-2018.
Sarah E. Owsowitz’s practice focuses on California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) advice and litigation, with a particular concentration on large-scale commercial, industrial and residential developments, water projects, as well as those projects with significant cultural resource issues. Sarah represents both public and private clients in administrative proceedings and litigation involving CEQA, as well as state and local planning and zoning laws. She is of counsel in Best Best & Krieger LLP’s Environmental Law & Natural Resources practice group.
She is the author of multiple CEQA and land use-related articles and lectures regularly on topics that include current trends in CEQA case law, statutes and guidelines, tribal cultural resources, CEQA and cannabis regulation, administrative records, and the preparation and defense of water supply analyses in CEQA documents.
Sarah serves on the Association of Environmental Professionals Statewide Legislative Committee advising on CEQA legislation, and the California Special District Association’s Legal Advisory Working Group. She is a recipient of the Daily Journal’s Environmental California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award in 2017. Northern California Super Lawyers Magazine selected her as a “Northern California Super Lawyer” for Land Use Law in 2013-2018, as a “Northern California Rising Star” for Land Use Law from 2009 to 2012, and placed her on the “Top Women Attorneys in Northern California” list in 2014, 2015 and 2016. She was also included in Super Lawyers Business Edition for her work in environmental law in 2015.
Prior to joining BB&K, Sarah was with Cox Castle & Nicholson and Morrison & Foerster. Before that, for nearly 7 years, she served as a deputy city attorney for the City and County of San Francisco.
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California’s AB 168 Adds Requirements to Approval Process
Union of Medical Marijuana Patients, Inc. v. City of San Diego
Approved by California Natural Resources Agency
Decision in Sierra Club v. County of Fresno Case
California Appellate Court Supports the Broad Use of CEQA Addenda
California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research Proposal Also Addresses SB 743
California Supreme Court Decision Could Impact High-Speed Rail Project
California Supreme Court Finding Serves as a Key Victory for Public Agencies
Comment Period Opens on Draft Program Environmental Impact Report of MCRSA and AUMA
Substantial Evidence Proving “Exacerbation” Required, California Appellate Court Says
Provides Opportunity to Streamline Litigation
Decision Issued After Years of Uncertainty
Gov. Brown Expected to Sign Laws that Will Have CEQA Implications
California Appellate Court Weighs in Following State Supreme Court Decision
Court Upholds Public-Private Groundwater Conservation and Recovery Project That Will Serve Customers Throughout Southern California
Court Clarifies the Unusual Circumstances Exception
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