Lookout Point Alliance v. City of Newport Beach CA4/3

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The Guidas own two adjoining lots in the City’s Corona Del Mar community on Ocean Boulevard across the street from Lookout Point and Little Corona Beach.2 The lot located at 2808 Ocean Boulevard was 7,217 square feet in size and 40 feet wide (at its widest point). The lot located at 2812 Ocean Boulevard was 6,483 square feet in size and also 40 feet wide. When the Guidas bought the two lots each was developed with a one-story house under 1,500 square feet in size. The Guidas planned on demolishing the existing houses, merging the two lots, and building a new house.

All statutory references are to the Public Resources Code, unless otherwise indicated. The CEQA implementing guidelines appear at California Code of Regulations, title 14, section 15000 et seq., and will be referred to as the “Guidelines.”

Throughout the record the lot merger is referred to as the merger of two lots with two separate addresses. The legal description actually encompasses portions of three lots bearing two separate assessor’s parcel numbers, but we will continue to refer to the merger as encompassing the two lots.

2 The City’s general plan designates…