FHCA

—Federation of Hillside and Canyon Associations (FHCA), a homeowners advocacy group, and Coalition Against the Pipeline (CAP), an environmental advocacy group (collectively, Petitioners), challenged the certification by City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles City Council (collectively, the city) of an environmental impact report (EIR) concerning an amendment to the city’s general plan. They maintained that the EIR was deficient, that there was no substantial evidence to support the city’s findings, and that the city had failed to recirculate the draft EIR upon the release of a transportation plan affecting the amended general plan. The trial court found that the city had failed to circulate the transportation plan and ordered the city to do so but rejected Petitioners’ other challenges.

Petitioners appeal that part of the judgment denying their petition. They contend there is no substantial evidence to support the city’s findings that mitigation measures will significantly reduce the amended general plan’s adverse impacts on transportation and that water resources will be sufficient, the EIR does not adequately address reasonable alternative plans, and it does not…