Backcountry Against Dumps v. San Diego County Bd. of Supervisors CA4/1

I. INTRODUCTION

Backcountry Against Dumps, Donna Tisdale, and Joe E. Tisdale (Appellants) appeal from the trial court’s dismissal of their petition for writ of mandate objecting to the approval by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors (the Board) of the Boulder Brush Facilities (the Boulder Brush Project). The Boulder Brush Project consists of a 3.5 mile long, 230-kilovolt overhead transmission line, a high-voltage substation, a 500-kilovolt switchyard, and various other improvements to a 320-acre corridor of private land, that will be used to connect two newly planned windmill farms to San Diego Gas & Electric’s existing transmission lines. The larger of the two windmill installations will consist of approximately 60 windmills that will be constructed entirely within the reservation of the Campo Band of Diegueño Mission Indians (Campo, or the Tribe). Appellants named the Board as the respondent in their petition and named Boulder Brush, LLC (Boulder Brush)—the project applicant and recipient of approvals—as the real party in interest. They asserted the Board’s approval of the Boulder Brush Project violated the California

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