TUOLUMNE JOBS & SMALL BUSINESS ALLIANCE v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. F063849.

210 Cal.App.4th 1006 (2012)

148 Cal. Rptr. 3d 730

TUOLUMNE JOBS & SMALL BUSINESS ALLIANCE, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF TUOLUMNE COUNTY, Respondent; WAL-MART STORES, INC., et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

October 30, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herum Crabtree and Brett S. Jolley for Petitioner.

Briggs Law Corporation, Cory J. Briggs and Mekaela M. Gladden for CREED-21 as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Trevor A. Grimm , Jonathan M. Coupal and Timothy A. Bittle for Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondent and Real Parties in Interest.

K&L Gates and Edward P. Sangster for Real Party in Interest Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Roger A. Brown for Real Party in Interest James Grinnell.

Richard Matranga , City Attorney, for Real Party in Interest City of Sonora.

Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai , Randy Riddle and Ivan Delventhal for League of California Cities as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.


CERTIFIED FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION*

OPINION

WISEMAN, J.

It is settled that when a development project is approved by means of a ballot initiative placed on the ballot by voters and adopted by them in an election, the project is exempt from environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (Pub. Resources Code, § 21000 et seq.) (CEQA). (See CEQA Guidelines,

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