No local public works project may be approved, no tentative map or parcel map for which a tentative map was not required may be approved, and no zoning ordinance may be adopted or amended within an area covered by a specific plan unless it is consistent with the adopted specific plan.
Cal. Gov. Code § 65455
Specific Plans
Known as the Planning and Zoning Law
The act spans §§ 65000 to 66499.58 (597 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 44 Cal. App. 4th 1160 - Beck Development Co. v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co. (1996)
Most recently applied in 222 Cal. App. 4th 1302 - Foothill Communities Coalition v. County of Orange (January 2014)
Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1009, Sec. 18.
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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.