RECENT CALIFORNIAN DECISIONS

February 2005

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First District Court Finds an Airport Land Use Plan Is a Project Subject to CEQA.
Muzzy Ranch Co. v. Solano County Airport Land Use Commission,

In this case of first impression, the First District Court of Appeal has ruled that the Solano County Airport Land Use Commission’s (ALUC’s) adoption of an airport land use compatibility plan (ALUP) for the area surrounding the Travis Air Force Base was a project subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The court found that adoption of the ALUP had the potential to result in physical change to the environment by displacing housing development from the Travis vicinity to elsewhere in the region.