The Legislature hereby finds and declares that this article is not intended, and shall not be construed, as authorizing the city or the county to exercise its power to adopt, amend or repeal an open-space zoning ordinance in a manner which will take or damage private property for public use without the payment of just compensation therefor. This section is not intended to increase or decrease the rights of any owner of property under the Constitution of the State of California or of the United States.
Cal. Gov. Code § 65912
Open-Space Zoning
Known as the Planning and Zoning Law
The act spans §§ 65000–66499 (597 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 24 Cal. 3d 266 - Agins v. City of Tiburon (1979)
Most recently applied in Santa Fe Land Improvement Co. v. City of Chula Vista (March 1979)
Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1590.
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.