The trial court ruled in the city’s favor, and the court of appeal affirmed the judgment. This matter involved a bifurcated trial with writ of mandate proceedings followed by a four-week trial. Successfully defended the adoption of a general plan update against state and federal claims of regulatory takings and violations of equal protection, state planning and zoning laws, and CEQA. Critical to BNSF’s national business strategy, the SCIG Project will create a new near-dock rail yard for the loading of shipping containers heading to and from the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex, the nation’s largest container port. Represent BNSF, North America’s second-largest freight railway, in seven lawsuits (now consolidated) challenging the company’s planned $500 million rail transfer facility on CEQA and other environmental grounds. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF) – Southern California International Gateway (SCIG). Governor Brown designated the project as an Environmental Leadership Development Project, the rules for which require that all legal challenges be expedited by the courts to be resolved 270 days after project approval. Meyers Nave is representing the City of Los Angeles in four different CEQA lawsuits brought against the Frank Gehry-designed 8150 Sunset Project, a mixed-use development. The Court’s decision will allow LADWP to continue to manage its water resources to meet the many competing customer, environmental, and regulatory demands on LADWP’s water free from annual litigation on these decisions. The Court of Appeal disagreed, finding that the annual allocations were actions in furtherance of the 2010 approvals of the leases with the Ranchers and did not require any further CEQA review. Mono County and the Sierra Club had argued that LADWP’s 2018 water allocation was a change to LADWP’s historic water allocation practices requiring new CEQA review. Successfully represented LADWP in appeal overturning trial court’s decision that LADWP’s annual water allocations to ranchers leasing land from LADWP in Mono County were subject to CEQA. (LADWP) (2022) First Appellate District of the Court of Appeal, Case No., A162590. Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Long Beach (1998) 63 Cal.App.4th 677 Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (2004) 123 Cal.App.4th 714 City of Half Moon Bay (2006) 142 Cal.App.4th 572 City of Rancho Cordova (2007) 40 Cal.4th 412 City of Rancho Cordova (2009) 172 Cal.App.4th 603 Santa Cruz County Local Agency Formation Commission (2011) 200 Cal.App.4th 1317 City of Los Angeles (2018) 19 Cal.App.5th 465 Julia has also advised and subsequently defended LAWA in its compliance with CEQA, NEPA, the California Coastal Act, the federal Coastal Zone Management Act, and other state and federal regulatory laws for the LAX expansion. In another California Supreme Court case, she defended the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) in a Public Records Act violation claim in connection with LAWA’s approval of a major expansion at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Julia represented the City of Rancho Cordova in an important CEQA case in the California Supreme Court relating to the analysis of water supply issues in environmental impact reports (EIRs). Julia co-authored the “Land Use Litigation” chapter of the California Land Use Practice, published by the Continuing Education of the Bar. Specializing in complex land use and environmental law litigation, she represents clients in matters involving the California Environmental Quality Act, National Environmental Policy Act, State Planning and Zoning Law, Coastal Act, Subdivision Map Act, Mitigation Fee Act, Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Act and civil rights claims in the land use context, among others. Julia Bond is an experienced trial and appellate court litigator and chairs the firm’s Writs and Appeals Practice Group.
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