Airport Business Center v. City of Santa Rosa

Filed 11/26/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

AIRPORT BUSINESS CENTER,

Plaintiff and Appellant, A170967

v. (Sonoma County CITY OF SANTA ROSA et al., Super. Ct. No. SCV272714) Defendants and Respondents.

This appeal arises out of a dispute about whether city-owned property constitutes surplus land within the meaning of the Surplus Land Act. (Gov. Code, §§ 54220 et seq.)1 In December 2022, the City of Santa Rosa and City Council of Santa Rosa (together, “the City”) adopted a resolution declaring that a property the City was using as a parking garage constituted surplus land under the Act. Airport Business Center (appellant) filed a petition for writ of mandate to set aside the resolution, which the trial court denied. Appellant contends the judgment must be reversed because the City violated the Act by designating the property as surplus land despite an ongoing need for public parking. We affirm the judgment.

1Statutory references are to the Government Code, unless otherwise specified, and we sometimes refer to the Surplus…