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Oakland releases proposed Vegetation Management Plan

On 9/20 the City of Oakland released its long awaited Vegetation Management Plan/EIR for review. HCN has gone through it and found the...

Overview of UC situation

Following more than a decade of public controversy, failed environmental studies and negative court decisions, on appeal, UC Berkeley...

Latest update on HCN versus UC lawsuit

As you probably know, UC appealed their loss in Alameda County Superior Court to the 1st District Court of Appeals. After extensive...

Update on HCN versus UC lawsuit

As you know, the California Court of Appeals is planning on ruling on the HCN (and CCC) versus UC lawsuit sometime in mid-March. While we...

City of Berkeley needs input

The City of Berkeley is developing a Wildfire Action Plan and is seeking input from concerned citizens. Absent input from folks who value...

HCN defends CEQA against attack from local agencies

A quick update on the HCN lawsuit against UC's Hill Campus Vegetation Plan. HCN won our suit against UC, but UC decided to appeal the...

UC files opening brief in appeal of recent EIR suit loss

On August 25 UC files its opening brief in its appeal of the earlier Superior Court decision to invalidate their vegetation management...

UC files appeal challenging their recent loss

UC has decided to challenge the successful HCN lawsuit against their hill campus vegetation management EIR. This means that there will be...

HCN prevails in challenge against UC vegetation management EIR

After a long and difficult suit, Judge Frank Roesch decided in favor of HCN's claim that the UC vegetation management plan was so vague...

Update on HCN versus UC hearing

For those who didn't tune it the summary is that it was a very interesting hearing with lots of discussion. The judge didn't make a...