Legal Opinion
Placer Ranch Partners v. County of Placer
California Court of Appeal
Decided July 30, 2001No. C032561PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HULL, J.
In what is often perceived to be the typical case involving the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Pub. Resources Code, § 21000 et seq. [further undesignated statutory references are to the Public Resources Code]), a zealous citizens group challenges the approval of a development project by asserting that a government entity failed to consider possible adverse environmental effects of the projects, or otherwise failed to follow mandated CEQA procedures. This is not that case. Here, it is the developers who invoke CEQA’s protections to challenge the government agency’s…
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