California Court of Appeal

In a case arising from the County of El Dorado's adoption of an oak woodland management plan and mitigation fee program without an environmental impact report (EIR), the district court's judgment in favor of the county is reversed, where: 1) the county could not rely on an earlier program EIR for its conclusion that the adoption of the plan and fee program would have no greater adverse environmental effect than that already anticipated in the program EIR, and its adoption of a negative declaration; and 2) the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) required a tiered EIR to be conducted prior to the county's adoption of the plan and fee program.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/20/2012
• Published 01/20/2012

Judges

• Hoch

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael W. Graf, Louis B. Green