CEQA Doesn't Apply When Agency Declines to Renew Use Permit for Private Applicant

The California Supreme Court has clarified that a local agency’s decision to deny renewal of a private party’s existing, time-limited land use permit is not a “project” to which the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) applies. This decision applies only to private facilities; agency decisions to close existing public facilities have been held previously by the Courts to be "projects" that require environmental review under CEQA. Read more here.