AVCO COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS v. SOUTH COAST REGIONAL COM.

Docket No. L.A. 30514.

17 Cal.3d 785 (1976)

553 P.2d 546

132 Cal. Rptr. 386

AVCO COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. SOUTH COAST REGIONAL COMMISSION et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

August 25, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Fulop, Rolston, Burns & McKittrick, Irwin M. Fulop, Lawrence R. Resnick and Kenneth B. Bley for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Howard N. Ellman and Susan J. Passovoy as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Carl Boronkay, Assistant Attorney General, Roderick Walston and Donatas Januta, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents.

John Roger Beers, Ballard Jamieson, Jr., and Laurens H. Silver as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

We are confronted with the apparently irreconcilable conflict between the interests of a land developer who seeks to avoid compliance with a recently enacted law regulating its project, and the interests of the public in assuring development of the property in a manner consistent with the requirements of current law. Specifically, we must decide whether the developer of a subdivision may acquire a vested right to...

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