CITIZENS OF GOLETA VALLEY v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Docket No. S013629.

52 Cal.3d 553 (1990)

801 P.2d 1161

276 Cal. Rptr. 410

CITIZENS OF GOLETA VALLEY, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY et al., Defendants and Respondents; WALLOVER, INC., et al., Real Parties in Interest and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

December 31, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Philip A. Seymour for Plaintiff and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Andrea Sheridan Ordin, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Theodora Berger, Assistant Attorney General, Ken Alex, Deputy Attorney General, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, Mark I. Weinberger, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, H. Sinclair Kerr, Jr., Thomas Holden, Daniel P. Selmi, Remy & Thomas, Michael H. Remy, Tina A. Thomas, James G. Moose, Robert H. Thompson, Hall & Phillips, Carlyle W. Hall, Jr., John R. Phillips, Ann E. Carlson and Carl H. Moor as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Marvin Levine, Acting County Counsel, David Nawi, County Counsel, Stephen Shane Stark and Jana Zimmer, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Respondents.

Robert E. Goodwin, Russell R. Ruiz, Burke, Williams & Sorensen, Colin Lennard and Lisa E. Kranitz as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Hollister & Brace, Richard C. Monk, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Joel S. Moskowitz, Baker & McKenzie, Timothy A. Tosta, J. Frederick Clarke, Jr., Maria C. Pracher, Jonathan S. Kitchen, Judy V. Davidoff, Douglas A. Potts, Matsinger & Blakeboro and Diane M. Matsinger for Real Parties in Interest and Respondents.

Baker & Hostetler, McCutchen Black, Philip K. Verleger, Donna R. Black, Peter Hsiao, Ronald A. Zumbrun, Robin R. Rivett and M. Reed Hopper as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest and Respondents.

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Stephen L. Kostka, Daniel J. Curtin, Jr., Michael P. Durkee, Thomas C. Wood and Michael H. Zischke as Amici Curiae.


OPINION

ARABIAN, J.

We granted review in this matter to determine the sufficiency of an environmental impact report (EIR) on the proposed development of a shore-front resort hotel in the County of Santa Barbara (County). Citizens of Goleta Valley (CGV), a coalition of groups opposed to the project, challenged the EIR on the sole ground that it failed to consider a number of purportedly reasonable project alternatives.

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