C.A. 4th;
E065213

The Fourth Appellate District affirmed a judgment. The court held that a CEQA action was doomed due to both the plaintiffs' failure to exhaust administrative remedies and the action's utter and complete lack of merit.

Mt. Jacinto Community College District entered into an agreement with the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District to purchase an 80-acre plot of vacant land from the district for potential future use as the site of a new campus. The land was located in Wildomar. The agreement conditioned the opening of escrow on both parties' CEQA compliance. After Wildomar voters approved a bond measure to fund college expansion, residents Martha Bridges and John Burkett sued the college, alleging it violated CEQA by failing to prepare an environmental impact report (EIR) before executing the purchase agreement and by failing to adopt local CEQA implementing guidelines.

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