Tuolumne County Citizens for Responsible Growth, Inc. v. City of Sonora

In Tuolumne County Citizens for Responsible Growth, Inc. v. City of Sonora (2007) 155 Cal.App.4th 1214, the court held that a proposed Lowe's home improvement center and a planned realignment of the adjacent Old Wards Ferry Road were improperly segmented as two separate projects in light of the dispositive fact that the road realignment was included by the City of Sonora as a condition of approval for the Lowe's project. (Id. at p. 1220.) The court held that this was really one project, not two, because "their independence was brought to an end when the road realignment was added as a condition to the approval of the home improvement center project. " (Id. at p. 1231.)