Respondents’ … Notice of Demurrer Hearing and of Demurrer to Verified Petition
This is what it sounds like, a short document announcing that the City is filing a Demurrer.
Respondents’ … Request for Judicial Notice in Support of the Demurrer
Here the City of Sonoma is asking the Judge to “Notice” aka look at, the exhibits they include. The exhibits are the legislative record of the 1990 amendments to the HAA. When the HAA was initially passed in 1982, it was very simple, it was just section (j). It applied to all proposed housing, and […]
Respondents City of Sonoma & Sonoma City Council Memo in Support of Demurrer
Here the City of Sonoma tries to convince the court (aka the judge) that the city shouldn’t even have to answer our Petition, because our Petition doesn’t successfully describe a failure on the city’s part to follow the law. See page 6, “Standard of Review”.
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In late 2016, a homebuilder began the arduous journey to construct three homes on vacant lots in Sonoma. Each HAA-compliant project was submitted separately, though the City of Sonoma processed all three as a group. This included producing three CEQA reports, which each included special attention to the other projects in the group; the City […]