Torres

Plaintiffs Maria Torres and Maria Lara filed this action challenging the validity of a proposed amended redevelopment project. Defendants City of Yorba Linda and the Yorba Linda Redevelopment Agency demurred on the ground plaintiffs lacked standing to maintain the lawsuit. The lower court sustained the demurrer without leave to amend and dismissed the action. We affirm.

Procedural and Factual Background.

Plaintiffs filed the original complaint September 17, 1990, and before defendants responded to it, they submitted a first amended complaint. Defendants demurred to the first amended complaint claiming plaintiffs lacked standing to sue and attacking individual causes of action on other grounds. The trial court sustained the demurrer to the entire amended complaint with leave to amend based on defendants’ standing objection.

The second amended complaint contains sixteen causes of action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief and issuance of a writ of mandate concerning the amended redevelopment plan’s validity and its manner of implementation. The pleading alleges the City of Yorba Linda approved a redevelopment plan known as the Yorba Linda Redevelopment Project in…