“Mitigated negative declaration” means a negative declaration prepared for a project when the initial study has identified potentially significant effects on the environment, but (1) revisions in the project plans or proposals made by, or agreed to by, the applicant before the proposed negative declaration and initial study are released for public review would avoid the effects or mitigate the effects to a point where clearly no significant effect on the environment would occur, and (2) there is no substantial evidence in light of the whole record before the public agency that the project, as revised, may have a significant effect on the environment.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 21064.5
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Known as the California Environmental Quality Act
The act spans §§ 21000–21189 (300 sections).
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case 125 Cal. App. 4th 470 - Nasha L.L.C. v. City of Los Angeles (2004)
Most recently applied in Kutzke v. City of San Diego (May 2017)
Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1230, Sec. 3
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.