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Land Use Matters provides information and insights into new CEQA appellate decisions and legal and regulatory developments, primarily at the Los Angeles City and County levels, affecting land use matters. This issue, we highlight Los Angeles’ efforts to ban oil and gas drilling, a case of federal preemption of dam permitting, and a rundown of new housing and climate-related legislation signed into California.

Land Use Matters provides information and insights into new CEQA appellate decisions and legal and regulatory developments, primarily at the Los Angeles City and County levels, affecting land use matters. This issue, we highlight Los Angeles’ Housing Element update, a pair of cases questioning a bottled-water facility’s EIR, and a repealed statute that ended a redevelopment dispute.

Alston & Bird has expanded its trial and complex litigation capabilities with the addition of Eric Kuwana as a partner in the firm’s New York and Washington, D.C. offices. He arrives from Cooley LLP.

Yuri Mikulka, partner in Alston & Bird’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group, and Jeff Rosenfeld, partner in the firm’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group, have once again been recognized among the most influential people in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal.