Legal Opinion
Visalia Retail, LP v. City of Visalia
California Court of Appeal, 5th District
Decided January 4, 2018No. F074118PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPoochigian, Acting P.J.
*354*5This appeal involves a challenge to an update of the City of Visalia's (Visalia) general plan. Included in the update is a land use policy affecting areas designated "Neighborhood Commercial." Under the policy, no tenant in a Neighborhood Commercial area may be larger than 40,000 square feet in size.
Appellant claims Visalia violated the California Environmental Quality Act ( Pub. Resources Code, § 21000 et seq. ; "CEQA") by failing to analyze the potential for the land use policy to cause a phenomenon called urban decay. "CEQA does not define urban decay" but some have defined it as…
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