COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO v. GROSSMONT-CUYAMACA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Part II
Community college districts are subject to mitigation requirements of CEQA. Trial court's ruling that mitigation of off-campus traffic impacts by college district was legally infeasible was an error. The district has authority--under provisions of Community College Construction Act of 1980, Education Code Sec. 81949 and pertinent regulations-- to spend public funds to mitigate such impacts. Trial court's finding that mitigation was economically infeasible was unsupported by substantial evidence where administrative record contained no estimate of the cost of district's proportional share of traffic mitigation measures identified in final EIR. Payment of costs of off-campus traffic mitigation measures by community college district located in unincorporated area does not constitute an unconstitutional gift of public funds to county.
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