Covina Residents for Responsible Dev. v. City of Covina

*717 In this CEQA 1 action Covina Residents for Responsible Development (CRRD) appeals from the trial court's denial of its petition for writ of mandate seeking to overturn the City of Covina's approval of a 68-unit, mixed-use, infill project 2 located a quarter-mile from the Covina Metrolink commuter rail station. CRRD contends the project's significant parking impacts required the City to prepare an environmental impact report (EIR) rather than the mitigated negative declaration it adopted in March 2016. We conclude section 21099, *555 subdivision (d)(1), which took effect three months before the City approved the project, exempts the project's parking impacts, as alleged by CRRD, from CEQA review. We also reject CRRD's contentions the City's approval of the project violated the Subdivision Map Act and affirm the judgment.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

1. The Proposed Project

In 2000 the City adopted a general plan and certified a program-level EIR governing future development within the City. In October 2004 the City adopted the Town Center Specific Plan (TCSP), which governs the site where the project is to be located and certified a second EIR tiered…