Gretchen Gary, lead member of Oceanside Speaks Out
gretchen@plasticfreepromise.com
Kathryn Pettit, attorney for Oceanside Speaks Out
kmp@chattenbrownlawgroup.com
OCEANSIDE SPEAKS OUT JOINS LEGAL CHALLENGE TO EDDIE JONES WAREHOUSE
AND DISTRIBUTION CENTER PROJECT APPROVAL
Oceanside, CA – Oceanside Speaks Out filed an Amended Petition for Writ of Mandate in San Diego Superior Court, joining the challenge to the City of Oceanside’s approval of the controversial Eddie Jones Warehouse, Manufacturing, and Distribution Facility Project. The Petition alleges that the City’s August 6, 2025, decision to approve the project and certify its Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”) violated the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”). An environmental nonprofit, Advocates for the Environment, has also challenged the Project approvals and EIR.
The Project proposes an industrial warehouse on the site that is nearly three times larger than the previous operation despite the site’s proximity to residential homes, including the recently approved Ocean Kamp project, the popular San Luis Rey River Trail, Prince of Peace Abbey Church, local skate park, and wildlife preserves. Trucks accessing the project would solely rely on access roads used by residents in the community to the immediate north.
Oceanside Speaks Out alleges that the Project’s EIR fails to adequately consider, analyze, disclose and mitigate significant impacts related to air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, safety, noise, land use, transportation, biological resources, and hydrological resources in violation of CEQA. Oceanside Speaks Out further asserts that several organizations, including government agencies, proposed feasible mitigation measures that the City failed to adopt.
“Despite 6,000 signatures from cross-district residents urging the City Council to reject this discretionary project on grounds of expected air pollution, unrestricted noise, excessive heavy truck traffic, fire evacuation risks, unknown future tenants and respective operations, and the project’s massive 500,000 square foot industrial scale, a Council majority still voted in favor of developer interests,” says Gretchen Gary of Oceanside Speaks Out. “In approving the Eddie Jones Project, the City Council ignored clear threats to public health, road safety, peace and quality of life for nearby residents and businesses, betraying the people they were elected to protect.”
“The Eddie Jones warehouse would be sited less than 800 feet away from residences, contrary to guidance from the State Attorney General’s Office and California Air Resources Board. Yet, the EIR offers inadequate mitigation measures to reduce the project’s significant impacts,” says Kathryn Pettit, attorney for Oceanside Speaks Out. “While the City Council approved a reduced project, it certified an EIR that allows a warehouse and distribution center generating over 1,600 daily vehicles, including over 300 daily trucks, without further environmental review or mitigation, leaving the community no further protections under CEQA if the Applicant returns for the larger project.”
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About
Oceanside Speaks Out
Oceanside Speaks Out is a grassroots community organization with hundreds of members located in Oceanside, California. The organization’s mission is to amplify the voice of the residents of Oceanside against environmental injustice by organizing to fight threats to the citizens’ health, safety, and wellbeing.