SMITH v. COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA

Docket No. B058763.

7 Cal.App.4th 770 (1992)

9 Cal. Rptr.2d 120

NORMAN D. SMITH, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, Defendant and Respondent; TMC COMMUNICATIONS, Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

May 26, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Alan A. Blakeboro for Plaintiff and Appellant.

David Nawi, County Counsel, Stephen Shane Stark and Cynthia Jean Manzer, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendant and Respondent.

Hollister & Brace and Paul J. Neibergs for Real Party in Interest and Respondent.


OPINION

GILBERT, J.

After a public hearing, the County of Santa Barbara (County) found that it issued a land use permit in error, but that it was estopped from revoking the permit. The superior court denied a petition for a writ of administrative mandate to require the County to revoke the permit.

We hold that a public entity may be estopped from enforcing the law only in extraordinary cases. This case is not one of them....

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