FRIENDS OF SIERRA MADRE v. CITY OF SIERRA MADRE

No. S085088.

105 Cal.Rptr.2d 214 (2001)

25 Cal.4th 165

19 P.3d 567

FRIENDS OF SIERRA MADRE et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY OF SIERRA MADRE et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

As Modified May 2, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brandt Hawley & Zoia, Susan Brandt Hawley and Rose M. Zoia, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Richard M. Frank, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Matthew Rodriguez and Theodora Berger, Assistant Attorneys General, Timothy R. Patterson and Christine Ann Sproul, Deputy Attorneys General, for State of California ex rel. Attorney General Bill Lockyer, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Rosenthal & Zimmerman and Deborah M. Rosenthal for California Preservation Foundation, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Michael H. Buhler and Elizabeth S. Merritt for National Trust for Historic Preservation, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Antonio Rossmann and Roger B. Moore for Planning and Conservation League, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Stuart M. Flashman; Christopher Schlies; Howie, Long, LaForce & Smith and Norman LaForce for Preserve Area Ridgelands Committee, Inc ., and Citizens for Balanced Growth, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Attorneys for Respondent: Charles Martin, City Attorney; Landels, Ripley & Diamond, Janine K. Massey, Donald Sobelman, Edward J. Heisel; Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, Sanford Svetcov; Morrison & Foerster, Michael H. Zischke and Andrew B. Sabey, for Defendants and Appellants.

Louise H. Renne, City Attorney (San Francisco), Ellen Forman, Chief Deputy City Attorney, Kate H. Stacy and Susan S. Cleveland, Deputy City Attorneys; Richards, Watson & Gershon, Craig A. Steele (Agoura Hills); Carol A. Korade, City Attorney (Alameda); Robert Zweben, City Attorney (Albany); William Galstan, City Attorney (Antioch); Pamela Albers, City Attorney (Avalon); Robert M. Sherfy, Assistant City Attorney (Bakersfield); Michael G. Colantuono, City Attorney (Barstow and Monrovia); Terry B. Stevenson, Assistant City Attorney (Burbank); William S. Smerdon, City Attorney (Calipatria); Ronald R. Ball, City Attorney (Carlsbad); Kenneth A. Wilson, City Attorney (Clearlake, Cloverdale and Healdsburg); Mark T. Boehme, City Attorney (Concord); Harriet Steiner, City Attorney (Davis); Alan J. Peake, City Attorney (Delano and Wasco); Robert R. Wellington, City Attorney (Del Rey Oaks and Marina); Lynn R. McDougal, City Attorney (El Cajon and Imperial Beach); Brad L. Fuller, City Attorney (Eureka); Scott H. Howard, City Attorney (Glendale); John Truxaw, City Attorney (Half Moon Bay and Sonoma); Michael J. O'Toole, City Attorney (Hayward); Julie Biggs, City Attorney (Hemet); Elaine M. Cass, City Attorney (Hollister); Gail Hutton, City Attorney (Huntington Beach); Charles J. Williams, City Attorney (Lafayette); John Sanford Todd, City Attorney (Lakewood); Susan Burns Cochran, City Attorney (Lathrop); William W. Wynder, City Attorney (Lawndale); Randall A. Hays, City Attorney (Lodi); Sharon D. Stuart, City Attorney (Lompoc); Robert E. Shannon, City Attorney (Long Beach), Heather A. Mahood, Assistant City Attorney; Dave Larsen, Town Attorney (Loomis); Robert K. Booth, Jr., (Los Altos); Steven F. Nord, City Attorney (Merced); Steven T. Mattas, City Attorney (Milpitas and South San Francisco); William B. Conners, City Attorney (Monterey); Anthony Canzoneri, City Attorney (Monterey Park); Robert D. Herrick, City Attorney (Moreno Valley); Michael D. Martello, City Attorney (Mountain View); Thomas B. Brown, City Attorney (Napa); James R. Anderson, City Attorney (Nevada City); Gary T. Galliano, City Attorney (Newark and Union City); Duane E. Bennett (Oceanside); David A. De Berry, City Attorney (Orange); Gary L. Gillig, City Attorney (Oxnard); David J. Erwin, City Attorney (Palm Desert); George S. Peyton, Jr., City Attorney (Piedmont); Debra S. Margolis, City Attorney (Pleasant Hill); Michael H. Roush, City Attorney (Pleasanton); Michael F. Dean, City Attorney (Plymouth); Daniel J. McHugh, City Attorney (Redlands); Robert A. Owen, City Attorney (Rialto); Thomas H. Terpstra, City Attorney (Ripon); Betsy Strauss, City Attorney (Rohnert Park); Mark Doane, City Attorney (Roseville); Hadden Roth, City Attorney (Ross and San Anselmo); Samuel L. Jackson, City Attorney (Sacramento); James C. Sanchez, City Attorney (Salinas); Jonathan Lowell, City Attorney (San Bruno); Robert J. Lanzone, City Attorney (San Carlos); Casey Gwinn, City Attorney (San Diego), Leslie J. Girard, Assistant City Attorney; Jeffrey G. Jorgensen, City Attorney (San Luis Obispo); Roy C. Abrams, City Attorney (San Mateo); Brian M. Libow, City Attorney (San Pablo); Gary T. Ragghianti, City Attorney (San Rafael); Daniel J. Wallace, City Attorney (Santa Barbara); Michael R. Downey, City Attorney (Santa Clara); Marsha Jones Moutric, City Attorney (Santa Monica); Phillip H. Romney, City Attorney (Santa Paula); Richard K. Denhalter, City Attorney (Stockton); Bradley W. Sullivan, City Attorney (Sutter Creek); Ann R. Danforth, City Attorney (Tiburon); Debra E. Corbett, City Attorney (Tracy); J. Dennis Crabb, City Attorney (Truckee); Scott Nichols, City Attorney (Walnut); and William E. Gnass, City Attorney (Waterford) for City and County of San Francisco, 86 California Cities and the California State Association of Counties, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Nicholas J. Cammarota for California Building Industry Association, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

David C. Smith for Building Industry Legal Defense Foundation, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Cassidy, Shimko & Dawson, Anna C. Shimko and Matthew D. Francois for California Building Industry Association, California Business Properties Association and Building Industry Legal Defense Foundation, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.


BAXTER, J.

This case presents an issue important to local governments and those interested in historic preservation: whether an initiative ballot measure, generated by a city council rather than by voter petition, submitting to the voters an ordinance that removes a structure or structures from historic preservation status is a project subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA; Pub. Resources Code,...

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