The Fifth Appellate District affirmed an order. In the published portion of its opinion, the court held that under the California Environmental Quality Act, a change in the original site plan for a proposed retail shopping center project that increased the proposed size of its largest retail space by nearly half did not require the project’s environmental impact report to include examination of potential urban decay effects.
The City of Madera certified an environmental impact report (EIR) for a proposed retail center project with some thirty retail spaces, the largest of which was about a sixth of the project’s total retail space.
