In Woodward Park Homeowners Assn. v. Garreks, Inc. (2000) 77 Cal.App.4th 880, the Court held that a city's appeal from a writ of mandamus ordering it to prepare an EIR before approving construction of a car wash did not become moot just because the developer had gone ahead and built the car wash without an EIR while the appeal was pending. The Court affirmed the order to prepare an EIR and stated that the car wash could be modified or even torn down if the environmental considerations supported those measures. (Garreks, supra, 77 Cal.App.4th at p. 888.)