Environmental group files another legal challenge to Grapevine housing project at Tejon Ranch

An Arizona-based environmental group has again challenged plans for a large, master-planned community just north of the Grapevine, saying Kern County's amended environmental review of the project underestimates its potential impacts on wildlife and air quality.

The lawsuit filed Friday in Kern County Superior Court by the Center for Biological Diversity says a review approved last month by the county Board of Supervisors misapplied a model for calculating health impact. It also alleges the county failed to take full account of the project's possible effects on protected species such as the San Joaquin kit fox and the blunt-nosed leopard lizard.