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Highlights The centerpiece of a significant 2022 legislative session is Assembly Bill (AB) 2011, which provides a ministerial, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)-exempt approval pathway for qualifying multifamily projects on commercial zoned land that pay prevailing wages and meet specified affordable housing targets. Other important laws that take effect in 2023 include AB 2097, which generally prohibits public agencies from imposing minimum parking requirements within a half-mile of public transit; AB 2334, which makes important [...]

Hurricanes bring a myriad of legal issues to the forefront. One of the most important things for any contractor or supplier to remember during hurricane repairs are the price gouging laws. Florida Statute 501.610, commonly referred to as the Price Gouging Statute, states that during a declared state of emergency the rental or sale of essential commodities for an amount that grossly exceeds the average price for that commodity during the 30 days before the declaration [...]

Maybe, But It Depends Upon the State in Which the Property Is Located The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented financial damage to the commercial real estate sector. Commercial landlords were forced to make difficult decisions, including whether to accept rent abatements, payment deferrals, delayed tenant buildouts, lease renegotiations or other means of achieving a commercially reasonable outcome. Many landlords, however, either had no choice or opted to pursue formal eviction proceedings – against those tenants including [...]