It is the purpose of this chapter to provide for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules and regulations by counties and cities, as well as to implement such general plan as may be in effect in any such county or city. Except as provided in Article 4 (commencing with Section 65910) and in Section 65913.1, the Legislature declares that in enacting this chapter it is its intention to provide only a minimum of limitation in order that counties and cities may exercise the maximum degree of control over local zoning matters.
Cal. Gov. Code § 65800
General Provisions
Known as the Planning and Zoning Law
The act spans §§ 65000–66499 (597 sections).
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case 9 Cal. 4th 763 - DeVita v. County of Napa (1995)
Most recently applied in Union of Medical Marijuana Patients, Inc. v. City of Upland (March 2016)
Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1152.
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.