Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.2223 · Article 1. General Provisions
Petition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
In addition to any other applicable requirements, the petition must:
(1) On the first page, directly below the case number, indicate that the matter is a "Streamlined CEQA Project";
(2) State one of the following:
(A) The proponent of the project at issue provided notice to the lead agency that it was proceeding under Public Resources Code section 21168.6.6, 21168.6.7, 21168.6.8, or 21168.6.9 (whichever is applicable) and is subject to this rule; or
(B) The proponent of the project at issue provided notice to the lead agency that it was proceeding under Public Resources Code sections 21189.80-21189.91 and is subject to this rule; or
(C) The project at issue was certified by the Governor as an environmental leadership development project under Public Resources Code sections 21182-21184 and is subject to this rule; or
(D) The project at issue is an Old Town Center project as defined by Public Resources Code section 21189.70 and is subject to this rule;
(3) If an environmental leadership media campus project, environmental leadership development project, Oakland ballpark project, Inglewood arena project, energy infrastructure project, semiconductor or microelectronic project, or water-related project, provide notice that the person or entity that applied for certification of the project as such a project must make the payments required by rule 3.2240 and, if the matter goes to the Court of Appeal, the payments required by rule 8.705;
(4) If an environmental leadership transit project, provide notice that the project applicant must make the payments required by rule 3.2240 and, if the matter goes to the Court of Appeal, the payments required by rule 8.705; and
(5) Be verified.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.2223 amended effective July 1, 2025; adopted effective July 1, 2014; previously amended effective January 1, 2017, March 11, 2022, January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/three/rule3_2223
- Text hash
- sha256 31c3ebd3886b299819c0a962766e33674ea8e71c04e1f6931eca7f40f18b7707
- Composed by
- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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