Citizens for Ceres v. City of Ceres

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The project is a shopping center with about 300,000 square feet of retail space located at Mitchell Road and Service Road in Ceres. A building of about 190,000 square feet constitutes the first phase, to be occupied by a Wal-Mart store. This store will replace an existing Wal-Mart in Ceres. The new store will have nongrocery space comparable to the existing store, to which it will add a 56,000 square-foot grocery area.

2This is the second opinion we have issued in this case. The first, Citizens for Ceres v. Superior Court (2013) 217 Cal.App.4th 889 (Citizens for Ceres I), granted Citizens‟ petition for a writ of mandate regarding privilege claims erroneously sustained by the trial court in connection with the preparation of the administrative record.

3. The remainder of the project includes 10 additional buildings intended for smaller stores and restaurants. There is no specific timetable for the construction of any but the Wal- Mart portion of the project. An application for the necessary land-use approvals was submitted to the city on February 16, 2007, by an entity called Regency Centers. Wal-Mart bought the land from Regency Centers in 2009 and…