Aptos Residents Assoc. v. County of Santa Cruz CA6
Appellant Aptos Residents Association (ARA) challenges the superior court’s denial of its petition for a writ of mandate under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Pub. Resources Code, § 21000, et seq.). ARA’s petition challenged the approval by respondent County of Santa Cruz (the County) of a microcell transmitter project proposed by real party Crown Castle (Crown). Crown’s project originally proposed to install 13 microcell transmitters as part of a Distributed Antenna System (DAS). These microcells would be placed on utility poles, primarily in the public right of way, in the Day Valley area, a rural portion of unincorporated Aptos. The County concluded that Crown’s DAS project was categorically exempt from CEQA and rejected ARA’s claim that an exception to the exemption applied.
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