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court found " a parking lot simply
does not 'meet recreation needs'
that are 'like in magnitude and
impact' to the recreational purposes served by grassy parkland. " 36
C.F.R. 59.3(b)(3)(i).
Accordingly, the federal district
court concluded: " Save the Park
is likely to succeed on the merits
of its claim that NPS approval of
the proposed replacement property
was arbitrary and inconsistent with
the LWCF regulations. "

Consideration of
Environmental Guidelines
As noted by the federal district
court, LWCF regulations also required the District and NPS to
ensure " [t]he guidelines for environmental evaluation have been
satisfactorily completed and considered. " 36 C.F.R. ยง 59.3(b)(7).
In this particular instance, the
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) required an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) if
there was substantial evidence that
a project may have a significant effect on the environment. The EIR
would usually include a project description, a map and probable environmental effects.
In this case, Save the Park
claimed NPS could not rely on the
District's EIR. Specifically, Save
the Park argued: " NPS's reliance
on the EIR was ill-considered in
the face of a state court order...that
vacated parts of the EIR and repudiated the District's prior approval
of it. " In response, the District argued that " the state litigation settlement bars Save the Park from arguing that the EIR violated CEQA. "
The federal district court, however, noted: " The settlement agreement's general release of claims is

limited by a specific carve-out of
challenges or any action taken by
NPS in connection with the Project. " As characterized by the court,
" Save the Park's contention that
NPS relied on faulty environmental impact data poses such a challenge. " Accordingly, since the state
court had already repudiated the
District's approval of the EIR, the
federal district court found Save the
Park was " likely to succeed on its
claim that NPS could not rely on
the District's EIR. "

Likelihood of
Irreparable Harm
As described above, the second of the
required four points to prevail on a
request for a preliminary injunction
also would require Save the Park to
show it would suffer " a likelihood
of irreparable harm " if the federal
district court failed to issue a preliminary injunction in this case. As
a general rule, an injunction to prevent any further harm would be appropriate when an award of money
damages is an inadequate legal remedy. In this particular instance, the
federal district court noted: " Both
sides appear to agree that injury resulting from violation of the LWCF
are environmental in nature and, as
such, typically can't be adequately
remedied by money damages. "
The District, however, disputed
" whether issuing a preliminary injunction at this point " would " accomplish its objective - preventing
further harm " because " the harm
had already occurred. " Specifically, since the " entirety of George
Berkich Park " was " already demolished, " the District claimed " an
injunction will simply render the
land unusable for any recreational
purposes whatsoever. "

In the opinion of the court, the
District's argument erroneously assumed " the District or the City of
Encinitas will not rebuild the Park
- and that they cannot be required
to do so " by court order. In fact, the
court found " the project is neither
complete nor nearly so " and Save
the Park was seeking a court order
to " require the Park be rebuilt. "
The court noted:
Although the parkland has been
demolished, no structures have
been built in the old 6(f)(3) boundary. Save the Park's claims are
not mooted [i.e., no judicial relief
available] by the demolition, since
plaintiffs ultimately seek rebuilding of the demolished parkland.
Further, in the absence of a
preliminary injunction, the court
found: " Permitting further construction at this point within the
6(f)(3) boundary would render any
later amelioration of the park more
difficult and expensive. " As noted
by the federal district court, judicial
review under the APA, provides
courts with " broad powers to order mandatory affirmative relief, "
which, in this case, could involve a
court order to rebuild the park.
Accordingly, the court held Save
the Park had effectively shown it
would suffer irreparable harm in
the absence of preliminary relief. "

Balance of Equities
As described above, the third of
the required four points to prevail
on a request for a preliminary injunction would require Save the
Park to show " the balance of the
equities tips in favor " of issuing
an injunction to temporarily halt
the District's renovation project. In
balancing the environmental and
economic concerns in this case,

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