Chelsea Maclean

Biografía: Chelsea Maclean is an associate in Holland & Knight's West Coast Land Use and Environment Practice Group. Specifically, her practice includes: counseling clients on all aspects of regulatory compliance under federal and state environmental laws, including the California Environmental Quality Act representing clients in litigation arising out of land use and environmental issues advising clients on climate change and green building laws, regulations and guidance documents managing the entitlement process to obtain land use entitlements and other permits conducting due diligence of potential development projects with regard to land use restrictions, permits and entitlement requirements drafting and negotiating transactional agreements between developers, municipal agencies and other third parties advocating for clients in the enactment and amendment of state and local land use statutes and regulations Ms. Maclean has also acted as an adjunct professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. During the Spring 2011 seminar, Ms. Maclean taught a course titled “Current State and Local Government Problems.” This course challenges students to analyze and report on cutting edge legal and policy issues confronting California’s state and local governments. Specifically, Ms. Maclean supervised the students interested in current land use and environmental law issues. Professional Honors & Awards Honorable Mention, Wiley W. Manual Award for Pro Bono Legal Services, Legal Aid of Marin, 2012 Memberships San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association California State Bar Association Environmental Section American Bar Association Urban Land Institute Speaking Engagements "CEQA 101 for Environmental Consultants," ENVIRON Corporation, May 17, 2012 Speaker, Land Use Regulation, UC Hastings, Fall 2011 "CEQA and Climate Change," Climate Change Seminar, UC Hastings, Spring 2011 "CEQA and Climate Change," Climate Change Seminar, UC Hastings, Spring 2010 "CEQA Update," UC Berkeley Extension, September 2008 "CEQA Update," UC Berkeley Extension, March 2007 Published Articles & Books "Recommendations for Complying with Ballona Wetlands' Definitive Rejection of ‘Converse-CEQA' Analysis," Environment, Alert - May 30, 2012 "CEQA Update: Court of Appeal Concludes That the Environment's Effect on a Project Need Not Be Analyzed Under CEQA," Environment, Alert - January 13, 2012 "California Governor's Budget Zeros Out All Redevelopment Agency Funding," Environment, Alert - January 6, 2012 "Calif. Redevelopment Elimination – Not Yet," Law360, September 2011 "California Supreme Court Stays Portions of Redevelopment Elimination Legislation," Environment, Alert - August 23, 2011 "California Redevelopment Legislation Enacted After Months of Wrangling," Environment, Alert - August 9, 2011 "CEQA Update: Recent Opinion Provides Guidance on Climate Change, Water Supply Assessments and Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies," Environment, Alert - July 29, 2011 "California Entities Release New Reports on Climate Change and Sustainable Development," Environment, Alert - October 26, 2010 "CEQA Update: Water Supply Assessment Case Injects Unwanted Uncertainty for Renewable Energy Projects," Environment, Alert - September 23, 2010 "Bay Area Air Quality Management District Adopts Groundbreaking Greenhouse Gas and Toxic Air Contaminant Thresholds," Environment, Alert - June 15, 2010 "Tank Program on Empty," Los Angeles Daily Journal, July 30, 2009 "Legal Perspectives on Recent California Climate Change Legislation," World Climate Change Report, Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., May 2009 "Legal Perspectives on Recent California Climate Change Legislation," Environmental Due Diligence Guide, Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., March 19, 2009 "An Insider's Perspective: Climate Strategies in California Have Implications for Land Use, Transactions," Environmental Due Diligence Guide, Bureau of National Affairs, Inc, February 19, 2009 "A Review of Climate Change Decisions in California Trial Courts," Environment, Alert - September 29, 2008 "California Court Rules Environmental Impact Reports Must Address Climate Change," Environment, Alert - August 22, 2008 "The Implications of an IRS Decision on Supplemental Environmental Projects," Environment, Newsletter - Fourth Quarter 2007 "The possibility of SEP legislation and lessons to learn from the fifty states," Trends by American Bar Association, July 2007 "Environmental Justice in the Fifty States," The Law of Environmental Justice, 2d., ed. Gerard and Foster (ABA), 2007 "Environmental Enforcement in the Fifty States: The Promise and Pitfalls of Supplemental Environmental Projects," 11 Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 185, 2005