Save the Capitol, Save the Trees v. Dept. of General Services

BACKGROUND

The nature of the contentions raised in this appeal do not require a detailed description of the project. A more complete description can be found in Save Our

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Public Resources Code.

2 Capitol, supra, 87 Cal.App.5th 655. For our purposes, it is sufficient to note that at the time of this court’s prior opinion, the project consisted of three primary components: (1) demolishing the existing Annex attached to the east side of the Historic Capitol and constructing a new attached Annex; (2) constructing a new underground visitor center on the west side of the Historic Capitol; and (3) constructing a new underground parking garage. (Id. at p. 667.) In September 2019, a draft EIR was circulated for public review and comment. The following January, portions of the draft EIR were revised and recirculated due to design changes to the visitor center component of the project. (Save Our Capitol, supra, 87 Cal.App.5th at p. 668.) Additional changes to the project, including to the Annex’s exterior and the location of the parking garage, did not result in revision or recirculation of the draft EIR. (Id. at pp. 668-669.) Instead, DGS…