Taxpayers for Accountable School Bond Spending v. San Diego Unif. School Dist. CA4/1

Plaintiff Taxpayers for Accountable School Bond Spending (Taxpayers) appeals a judgment entered against it in its action against defendant San Diego Unified School District (District) arising out of Proposition S and District’s approval of installation of new stadium field lighting and other improvements at Herbert Hoover High School (Hoover). In its operative first amended complaint against District, Taxpayers alleged four causes of action: (1) a Code of Civil Procedure section 526a cause of action for waste and misuse of Proposition S funds; (2) a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA; Pub. Resources Code, § 21000 et seq.) cause of action for District’s wrongful adoption of a mitigated negative declaration for the project at Hoover; (3) a cause of action for District’s violation of the City of San Diego’s (City) zoning and land use laws; and (4) a cause of action for District’s violation of Government Code section 53094 by exempting the Hoover project and certain other high school projects from City’s zoning and land use laws. On appeal, Taxpayers generally contends the trial court erred because (1) Proposition S did not specifically list or otherwise include field…