COUNTY OF AMADOR v. CITY OF PLYMOUTH Part I
Agreement obligating city to vacate a portion of a city road to provide access to a proposed casino hotel, to remodel an existing fire station in order to serve the hotel property, and to construct connections to the casino's sewer and water systems and to increase their capacities to meet the needs of the casino development was a "project" within the meaning of CEQA. City's approval of agreement without performing an initial study to determine whether to prepare a negative declaration or an EIR violated CEQA; where agreement was, by its terms, contingent on comprehensive mitigation of negative impacts, severance of provisions violating CEQA, permitting enforcement of remainder of the agreement, would preclude fulfillment of agreement's central objectives and was correctly denied by the court.
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