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ELDRIDGE v. CITY OF PALO ALTO

Docket Nos. 33517, 34134.

57 Cal.App.3d 613 (1976)

129 Cal. Rptr. 575

DONALD F. ELDRIDGE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF PALO ALTO, Defendant and Respondent. HARRY "J" BEYER, JR., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF PALO ALTO et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

April 23, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Cliff & Nowinski, Frank B. Cliff, Peter A. Nowinski, Crist, Crist, Griffiths, Bryant & Schulz, Frank Lee Crist, Jr., and Chilton H. Lee for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Fulop, Rolston, Burns & McKittrick, Marvin G. Burns, Pollock, Williams & Berwanger, John P. Pollock, Charles V. Berwanger and John T. Harris as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Robert K. Booth, Jr., City Attorney, Jackson, Turner & Mulcare, William J. Turner, Ronald J. Mulcare, Atkinson, Farasyn & Smith, Atkinson, Farasyn, Smith & Caploe, Fred Caploe, Vatuone, Dok, Daiker, Randall & Bryant and Norman E. Matteoni for Defendants and Respondents.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Carl Boronkay, E. Clement Shute, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, Nicholas C. Yost and Richard C. Jacobs, Deputy Attorneys General, Harry I. Fenton, John B. Matheny and Edward J. Connor, Jr., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

ELKINGTON, J.

These appeals, with similar subject matter and issues, have been consolidated for the purpose of our consideration and disposition of them.

Plaintiffs Eldridge and Beyer were the owners, respectively, of 750 acres and 22.27 acres of generally unimproved land in the foothills of the City of Palo Alto (hereafter the "City"). The City had enacted zoning ordinances which, among other things, classified their...

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