SUNSET SKY RANCH PILOTS ASSN. v. COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO

No. S165861.

47 Cal.4th 902 (2009)

SUNSET SKY RANCH PILOTS ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO et al., Defendants and Respondents; JOHN M. TAYLOR et al., Real Parties in Interest and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

December 28, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Office of Lanny T. Winberry and Lanny T. Winberry for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Robert A. Ryan, County Counsel, and Krista C. Whitman, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Respondents.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Gordon Burns, Deputy State Solicitor General, J. Matthew Rodriquez, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary E. Hackenbracht, Assistant Attorney General, Denise Ferkich Hoffman and Bruce Reeves, Deputy Attorneys General, for State Water Resources Control Board, Natural Resources Agency, California Environmental Protection Agency, California Integrated Waste Management Board, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and Department of Parks and Recreation as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Jennifer B. Henning for California State Association of Counties and League of California Cities as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Taylor & Wiley, John M. Taylor, Kate Leary Wheatley and Matthew S. Keasling for Real Parties in Interest and Respondents.


OPINION

CORRIGAN, J.

The County of Sacramento declined to renew a conditional use permit for a privately owned airport. A mandamus petition seeking to prevent the airport's closure was denied. The Court of Appeal reversed, holding that the county's action amounted to a "project" subject to the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (Pub. Resources Code, § 21000 et seq...

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