Sierra Club v. Co. of San Diego

Filed 10/29/14 Certified for publication 11/24/14 (order attached)

COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SIERRA CLUB, D064243

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v. (Super. Ct. No. 37-2012-00101054-

CU-TT-CTL)

COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO,

Defendant and Respondent.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Timothy

Taylor, Judge. Affirmed.

Thomas E. Montgomery, County Counsel, and C. Ellen Pilsecker, Chief Deputy

County Counsel, for Defendant and Appellant.

Law Office of Malinda R. Dickenson, Malinda R. Dickenson; Chatten-Brown &

Carstens, Douglas P. Carstens and Josh Chatten-Brown for Plaintiff and Respondent.

This action arises out of the County of San Diego's (County's) 2011 general plan

update, wherein the County issued a program environmental impact report (PEIR), and

adopted various related mitigation measures. In this action the Sierra Club sought, in a petition for writ of mandate, to enforce one mitigation measure adopted by the County:

the Climate Change Mitigation Measure CC-1.2 (Mitigation Measure…