Friends of Rose Canyon sued the city in 2007 for not doing an environmental impact report (EIR) to assess the various impacts of a planned Regents Road Bridge over Rose Canyon. The city settled with Friends of Rose Canyon and agreed to rescind its design contract with Project Design Consultants. To move forward with the project, the city now plans to spend $1.4 million on an EIR and $2.8 million for preliminary engineering. Project Design Consultants is again vying for the contract. This is the second lawsuit the city has settled with Friends of Rose Canyon. The group first sued the city in 2006, claiming the initial EIR done by Project Design Consultants was inadequate. The city agreed to shelve that EIR and pay $450,000 in attorney fees to Friends of Rose Canyon.