Open-Space Lands
Known as the Planning and Zoning Law
The act spans §§ 65000 to 66499.58 (597 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Rancho Palos Verdes Corp. v. City of Laguna Beach (1976)
Most recently applied in 100 Cal. App. 4th 973 - Johnston v. SONOMA COUNTY AGR. PRESERVATION (August 2002)
Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1590.
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.
It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article:
(a) To assure that cities and counties recognize that open-space land is a limited and valuable resource which must be conserved wherever possible.
(b) To assure that every city and county will prepare and carry out open-space plans which, along with state and regional open-space plans, will accomplish the objectives of a comprehensive open-space program.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.