RECENT CALIFORNIA DECISIONS

January 2010

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Superior Court Rejects Petitioners’ CEQA Challenges to Sacramento ‘Railyards Project’
Sacramento Citizens Concerned About the Railyards v. City of Sacramento

On November 6, 2009, the Sacramento Superior Court, rejected all of the petitioners’ challenges brought under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to the City of Sacramento’s approval of the Sacramento “Railyards Project,” (Railyards) the largest urban infill development project in the region. The court upheld all challenged aspects of the project’s environmental impact report (EIR) and found that the city had adequately addressed and mitigated potential project impacts.