San Lorenzo Valley Community Advocates for Responsible Education v. San Lorenzo Valley Unified School Dist

In San Lorenzo Valley Community Advocates for Responsible Education v. San Lorenzo Valley Unified School Dist. (2006) 139 Cal.App.4th 1356, the court summarized its interpretation of the class 14 exemption as follows: "A school closure and accompanying transfer of students is exempt from CEQA so long as any resulting physical changes are categorically exempt. ( 21080.18.) Minor additions to the receptor school are categorically exempt. (Guidelines, 15314.) A minor addition is defined as the lesser of: (1) the addition of 10 or fewer classrooms; or (2) an increase in original student capacity of 25 percent or less. (Ibid.) In this context, original student capacity means the receptor school's preexisting physical ability to house students" because CEQA is concerned solely with physical changes to the environment. (San Lorenzo, supra, 139 Cal.App.4th at pp. 1387-1388.) In other terms, the phrase "original student capacity" (Guidelines, 15314) means the receptor school's "physical space for housing students" or "the number of students that can be accommodated physically at the receptor school," before the transfers are made as a result of other school closures. (San Lorenzo, supra, at p. 1387.)