Go to the source:
City Council Resolution of August 1, 2006 implementing the bridge
City Council Resolutions of March 27, 2007 authorizing new EIR instead
(these resolutions replace the August 1 resolution)

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Friends of Rose Canyon wins major victory

CITY COUNCIL RESCINDS DECISION TO PROCEED WITH
REGENTS ROAD BRIDGE!
Friends of Rose Canyon’s lawsuit forces City Council to do an about face.
City Council votes to do a brand new EIR.

Major Victory for Friends of Rose Canyon
City capitulates before the case is heard in court

• The City Council voted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 to conduct a new Environmental Impact Report (EIR) before they consider whether to implement the Regents Road bridge project. 
• This is exactly what the City would have had to do had we won our case in court. The case was well along in the process, but had not yet been heard by the court. The City capitulated after hiring two different outside counsel to advise them (thus wasting yet more city funds in what has become a parade of waste on the ill-advised Regents Road bridge project).

What does this mean?

• We cannot force the city to make the intelligent, cost-effective and foresighted decision: to stop further consideration of the Regents Road bridge project and preserve one of the city’s wonderful open space parks. Nor can we stop them from continuing to waste money on doing a new EIR – likely another million dollars.
• However, we can hold them legally accountable, and by law, this new EIR must fully disclose the major environmental impacts of the Regents Road bridge project and must consider less environmentally damaging alternatives.

What is the City’s spin on their about-face?

• The City Council framed their vote on Tuesday as just “a clarification” of last summer’s decision. They claim that what they meant all along with last summer’s vote to implement the Regents Road bridge project wasn’t to implement the project but to do a new EIR. 
• We are not fooled by this silly face-saving spin. Our lawsuit has forced them to rescind their decision and start over. Moreover, they have effectively shelved as useless the previous EIR that took three years and an estimated $3 million to complete.
  

Many thanks to the organizations who joined us in the lawsuit:
San Diego Audubon Society
San Diego Coastkeeper
Endangered Habitats League
And many thanks to everyone who donated funds: you made this happen.

What’s next?

• The City must do another EIR, and we (and our attorneys) will follow every single step of the process.  If the City does it right, they will find that the bridge is no solution because it is less effective, more expensive and the most environmentally destructive alternative.  If they do not do it right, we will litigate again.
• We are already at work on an immediate challenge: the city staff want to hire the same firm that was just paid $1.8 million to produce the previous inadequate EIR to do the new one!  We will fight this absurd waste of public funds.

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