The Legislature also finds that decisions involving the future growth of the state, most of which are made and will continue to be made at the local level, should be guided by an effective planning process, including the local general plan, and should proceed within the framework of officially approved statewide goals and policies directed to land use, population growth and distribution, development, open space, resource preservation and utilization, air and water quality, and other related physical, social and economic development factors.
Cal. Gov. Code § 65030.1
Declaration of State Policy and Legislative Intent
Known as the Planning and Zoning Law
The act spans §§ 65000–66499 (597 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 106 Cal. App. 3d 988 - Friends Of" B" Street v. City of Hayward (1980)
Most recently applied in 2 Cal. 5th 141 - Orange Citizens for Parks & Recreation v. Superior Court of Orange Cnty. (December 2016)
Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1386.
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.