This title may be cited as the Planning and Zoning Law.
Cal. Gov. Code § 65000
General Provisions
Known as the Planning and Zoning Law
The act spans §§ 65000–66499 (597 sections).
Applied in 59 court decisions — leading case 52 Cal. 3d 531 - Lesher Communications, Inc. v. City of Walnut Creek (1990)
Most recently applied in California Attorney General Opinion 23-1101 (May 2024)
Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 123.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.