April 2007
New Development water Planning MeasuresJumping Through Hoops
The California Supreme Court, in its recent 6-1 decision in Vineyard Area Citizens for Responsible Growth Inc. v. City of Rancho Cordova, 2/1/2007, concerning the Sunrise Douglas Community Plan, raised the number of hoops developers must leap through to ensure that their large-scale developments’ future water needs will be met without too great an impact on the environment. The decision in Vineyard Area Citizens not only put a hold on a huge development planned for Rancho Cordova, but also placed other developers in the state on notice that certain shortcuts in water-use planning will not be accepted by the courts when challenged.
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