No specific plan may be adopted or amended unless the proposed plan or amendment is consistent with the general plan.
Cal. Gov. Code § 65454
Specific Plans
Known as the Planning and Zoning Law
The act spans §§ 65000 to 66499.58 (597 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 44 Cal. App. 4th 1160 - Beck Development Co. v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co. (1996)
Most recently applied in Citizens Coal. L. A. v. City of L. A. (August 2018)
Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1009, Sec. 18.
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.