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Greenbelt Alliance In the News
January 18, 2007 Court issues temporary ruling on Greenbelt's Oakley lawsuit Subheading Paula KingContra Costa County Superior Court issued a tentative ruling on a land conservation group's lawsuit against the city of Oakley Thursday, but the final decision is still pending. The tentative ruling states that Oakley followed the law in terms of levees and flooding, but not with air quality regarding plans to annex more than 2,000 acres of previously unincorporated land into its city limits. That ruling says that the city's environmental plans "failed to adequately analyze potentially significant air quality impacts." The Greenbelt Alliance filed the lawsuit last April over the city's annexation plans. The alliance is suing the city and a handful of developers over plans to build more than 4,000 homes there because of the potential environmental impacts. The alliance has argued that the residential developments slated for Hotchkiss Tract would harm not only the environment but also jeopardize the health and safety of current and future residents. They say that the city has not done enough in its planning to mitigate air quality effects, resolve the loss of agricultural land and protect residents from flooding. City officials counter that they have completed a comprehensive environmental planning process that will make the area safer with a new master levee system and improvements to existing levees. The final ruling is likely to be released within 90 days. ### |
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