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CITY OF ESCONDIDO v. DESERT OUTDOOR ADVERTISING, INC.

Docket No. L.A. 30061.

8 Cal.3d 785 (1973)

505 P.2d 1012

106 Cal. Rptr. 172

CITY OF ESCONDIDO, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DESERT OUTDOOR ADVERTISING, INC., et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 6, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Swing, Scharnikow, Lewis & Kroll and David K. Kroll for Defendants and Appellants.

Kenneth Lounsbery, City Attorney, Vincent F. Biondo, Jr., Assistant City Attorney, Walker, Gann & Leach and Roy H. Gann for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Broad, Khourie & Schulz, John W. Broad, John R. Stokes, City Attorney (Arcata), Saul M. Weingarten, City Attorney (Gonzales), Gene Axelrod, City Attorney (La Verne), John R. Sherman, City Attorney (Pacifica), James F. Ford, City Attorney (Red Bluff), Edward Taylor, City Attorney (Redlands), D.E. Schricker, City Attorney (Redwood City), James S. Okazaki, City Attorney (San Juan Capistrano), Richard L. Knickerbocker, City Attorney (Santa Monica), and Raymond C. Clayton, City Attorney (Thousand Oaks), as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BURKE, J.

In this case we are asked to decide whether, under applicable law as it existed in 1965, a general law city could regulate the placement of signs and billboards along freeways without the necessity of complying with the law governing the adoption of zoning ordinances.

(1a) City of Escondido ("City"), a general law city, asserts that Government Code section 387741...

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