California Court of Appeal

In a mandamus action under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), in which plaintiffs challenged a mitigated negative declaration approved by defendant-county with respect to a proposed subdivision, denial of plaintiffs' petition is reversed and remanded for preparation of an environmental impact report, where: 1) the trial court erred in determining that the proposed subdivision was not a CEQA project, even though the proposal did not include any specific plans for development; and 2) plaintiffs adequately showed that there is substantial evidence in the record that the subdivision may have a significant unmitigated impact on traffic adjacent to the project site.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2014
• Published 09/09/2014

Judges

• Robie

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel