Coastal Hills Preservation v. County of Sonoma
This case is before us a second time, our first opinion in this matter having been filed on August 31, 2016. (Coastal Hills Rural Preservation v. County of Sonoma (Aug. 31, 2016, A145573), review granted and opn. ordered nonpub. Nov. 22, 2016, S237655 (Coastal Hills I).) Subsequently, the Supreme Court granted the petition for review filed by plaintiff Coastal Hills Rural Preservation (CHRP), ordered our opinion depublished, and transferred the matter to us for reconsideration following that court’s recent decision in Friends of College of San Mateo Gardens v. San Mateo County Community College Dist. (2016) 1 Cal.5th 937 (San Mateo Gardens). The specific page references in the Supreme Court’s order focus our reconsideration on a point relevant to our discussion of the how courts are to evaluate a public agency’s response to modifications made to projects initially approved via negative declaration under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). As we will explain, we c
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