Concerned Citizens of Costa Mesa, Inc. v. 32nd District Agricultural Ass'n

Opinion

REYNOSO, J.

What may a citizens’ group do when a stadium is constructed in their neighborhood substantially different than planned? The citizens charge that the changes were made without notice and that they did not know of the changes, and could not through the exercise of reasonable diligence have discovered them, until the first and overly noisy concert took place. On those facts, does the California Environmental Quality Act protect the citizens? We hold that it does.

The California Environmental Quality Act (Pub. Resources Code, § 21000 et seq., hereafter CEQA)1 provides that a…