Daniel Cooper of Sycamore Law, Inc. and Michelle Black of Carstens, Black & Minteer, LLP for Petitioner Coastal Ranches Conservancy
Erin Holbrook / G. Michael Harrington / Lucille Y. Baca / Justin P. Wynne of California Dept. of Transp. Legal Division for Caltrans

RULING
For the reasons more fully articulated below, the demurrer will be sustained, without leave to amend.
BACKGROUND
Petitioner Coastal Ranches Conservancy (CRC) filed its original verified Petition for Writ of Mandate and Declaratory and Injunctive Relief on July 22, 2022, and its First Amended Petition on September 13, 2022. Both the initial petition and First Amended Petition (FAP) named only the California Department of State Parks and Recreation (State Parks) as the Respondent. There are multiple claims maintained against State Parks in these petitions, which complain of its failure to implement habitat restorations required by a condition of project approval in a 1992 Coastal Development Permit for a project to re