ARNEL DEVELOPMENT CO. v. CITY OF COSTA MESA

Docket No. L.A. 31205.

28 Cal.3d 511 (1980)

620 P.2d 565

169 Cal. Rptr. 904

ARNEL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY OF COSTA MESA, Defendant and Respondent. SOUTH COAST PLAZA, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF COSTA MESA, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

December 18, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Rutan & Tucker, Leonard A. Hampel, Robert S. Bower, Latham & Watkins, Robert E. Currie and Robert K. Break for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Robert Myers, John E. McDermott, Richard A. Rothschild, Crystal Sims, Michael E. Wine, Stearns, Kim & Willens, William N. Willens, Loring E. Jahnke, Richard J. Reynolds, Carlyle W. Hall, Jr., and Carolyn Burton as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

R.R. Campagna, City Attorney, Thomas C. Wood, Assistant City Attorney, and Mark J. Huebsch, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendant and Respondent.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, E. Clement Shute, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Daniel P. Selmi, Deputy Attorney General, George Agnost, City Attorney (San Francisco), Burk E. Delventhal, Diane L. Hermann, Alice Suet Yee Barkley, Deputy City Attorneys, John W. Scanlon, City Attorney (Hayward), Burt Pines, City Attorney (Los Angeles), Frederick W. Clough, City Attorney (Santa Barbara), Robert J. Logan, City Attorney (San Jose), Daniel J. Curtin, Jr., City Attorney (Walnut Creek), Carter J. Stroud, City Attorney (Alameda), Ronald A. Zumbrun, Thomas E. Hookano, Howard E. Susman, Frank Lee Crist, Jr., Crist, Crist, Griffiths, Bryant, Schulz & Biorn and Martin Wolff as Amici Curiae.


OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

Plaintiff Arnel proposed to construct a 50-acre development consisting of 127 single-family residences and 539 apartment units.1 Objecting to this proposal, a neighborhood association circulated an initiative rezoning the Arnel property and two adjoining properties (68 acres in all) to single family residential use. When the voters approved...

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