“Tiering” or “tier” means the coverage of general matters and environmental effects in an environmental impact report prepared for a policy, plan, program or ordinance followed by narrower or site-specific environmental impact reports which incorporate by reference the discussion in any prior environmental impact report and which concentrate on the environmental effects which (a) are capable of being mitigated, or (b) were not analyzed as significant effects on the environment in the prior environmental impact report.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 21068.5
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Known as the California Environmental Quality Act
The act spans §§ 21000–21189 (300 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 18 Cal. App. 4th 729 - Al Larson Boat Shop, Inc. v. Board of Harbor Commissioners (1993)
Most recently applied in Friends of the College of San Mateo Gardens v. San Mateo County Community College District (September 2016)
Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 967, Sec. 1.
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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.