Jon E. Goetz

Attorney General: Pre-Proposition 26 Green Building Standards Fee Is Not A Tax
Jon E. Goetz,Jeffrey L. Massey, February 7, 2012
The Attorney General concluded the charge that cities and counties are required to collect from all applicants for building permits pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 18931.6 are regulatory fees, not taxes. (Attorney General Opinion, No. 09-903, December 27, 2011.)

UPDATE: Pollution Control District’s Rule Relating to Emissions Associated With Development Sites is Not Preempted by the Federal Clean Air Act
Mona Ebrahimi,Jon E. Goetz, January 12, 2012
In National Association of Home Builders v. The San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District, (--- F.3d ----, C.A.9 (Cal.), December 7, 2010), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit considered the issue of whether an air emissions rule imposed by an air pollution...

No Inverse Condemnation Claim Where City Threatened But Did Not Proceed With Plans For Condemnation
William T. Chisum,Jon E. Goetz,Jeffrey L. Massey, December 28, 2011
A Court of Appeal recently held that a landowner failed to state a claim for inverse condemnation against a city that planned to take the landowner’s property but ultimately decided to not go forward with eminent domain proceedings. (Joffe v. City of Huntington Park (--- Cal.Rptr.3d ----,...