California Court of Appeal
Cleveland Nat. Forest v. San Diego Assn. of Gov., D063288
Judgment granting petitions for writ of mandate challenging the adequacy of defendant’s environmental impact report (EIR) for its 2050 Regional Transportation Plan is affirmed, where: 1) the EIR did not analyze the inconsistency between the state’s policy goals and the transportation plan’s greenhouse gas emissions impact after 2020, and the EIR failed to adequately address mitigation measures for the emissions impact; and 2) the EIR further violated the California Environmental Quality Act by failing to analyze a reasonable range of project alternatives, failing to adequately analyze and mitigate the air quality impacts, understating the impacts on agricultural lands, and failing to adequately analyze and mitigate the impacts from particulate matter pollution.
Appellate Information
- Decided 11/24/2014
- Published 11/24/2014
Judges
- McConnell
Court
- California Court of Appeal