ELR Citation: ELR 20070
No(s). C057018 (Cal. App. 3d Dist. Mar 24, 2009)

A California appellate court reversed a lower court decision that a city violated the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in approving a residential and commercial development project. The lower court properly ruled that the city violated the Planning and Zoning Law because the city's general plan required it to design mitigation for impacts on special-status species in coordination with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which the city did not do. But the court erred in finding that the city's environmental impact report and approval violated CEQA. The conservation group that filed suit against the city failed to establish any violations on which administrative remedies were exhausted.