WOODWARD PARK HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., v. CITY OF FRESNO Part I
City violated California Environmental Quality Act in approving a new commercial development on vacant land where it failed to demand any measures to ease project's impact on an already congested nearby freeway interchange; issued environmental impact report that measured project's impacts by comparing it to a massive hypothetical office park instead of to the vacant land that actually existed at the project site; and claimed in its statement of overriding considerations that proposed project would have economic benefits superior to those of three alternatives considered in EIR because those alternatives generally propose no development or development to a lesser degree when three alternatives in reality were "as large as or larger than the proposed project" and where there was no evidence that their economic benefits would be smaller.
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