WOODLAND HILLS RESIDENTS ASSN., INC. v. CITY COUNCIL

Docket No. L.A. 31133.

26 Cal.3d 938 (1980)

609 P.2d 1029

164 Cal. Rptr. 938

WOODLAND HILLS RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION, INC., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Defendants and Appellants; CALIFORNIA WESTERN CONCEPTS, Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

April 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Antonio Rossmann and Linda Ogerter for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Kenneth J. Guido, Jr., Daniel Lowenstein, Andrew Shepard, Peter I. Bersin, Robert M. Brownstein, Robert Snider, Carolyn Sutton, Fadem, Berger & Norton, Michael M. Berger, Carlyle W. Hall, Jr., and Mark A. Posener as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Burt Pines, City Attorney, Mary D. Nichols and Sally Disco, Chief Assistant City Attorneys, Claude Hilker and Jerome Montgomery, Assistant City Attorneys, and Anthony S. Alperin, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Appellants.

Eric Lauterer, City Attorney (Garden Grove), Rodney R. Atchison, City Attorney (Santa Cruz), Peter D. Bullens, City Attorney (Antioch), Bush, Ackley, Milich & Hallinan, City Attorneys (Escalon, Riverbank and Oakdale), Jerome F. Coleman, City Attorney (Burlingame), Daniel J. Cutrin, City Attorney (Walnut Creek), James L. Darrow, City Attorney (El Centro), Keith Gow, City Attorney (Santa Ana), Donald S. Greenberg, City Attorney (San Buenaventura), Thomas Haas, City Attorney (Fairfield), William P. Hopkins, City Attorney (Anaheim), Gail Hutton, City Attorney (Huntington Beach), P. Lawrence Klose, City Attorney (Petaluma), Robert J. Logan, City Attorney (San Jose), K.D. Lyders, City Attorney (Oxnard), William C. Marsh, City Attorney (Monterey), Lynn R. McDougal, City Attorney (El Cajon), James A. McKelvey, City Attorney (Fresno), Robert Parkin, City Attorney (Long Beach), Steve A. Slatkow, City Attorney (Seaside), Gerald A. Sperry, City Attorney (Stockton), Elroy F. Wiehl, City Attorney (Escondido), John W. Witt, City Attorney (San Diego), John E. Woodhead, City Attorney (Riverside), Thomas C. Woodruff, City Attorney (Fountain Valley), Lee C. Rosenthal, Joseph Remcho and Rosen, Remcho & Henderson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Latham & Watkins, Peter H. Benzian and David Keuser for Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Cox, Castle & Nicholson, George M. Cox, Carol S. May, John S. Miller, Jr., and John F. Nicholson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Ronald A. Zumbrun, John H. Findley, Turner & Sullivan, James P. Corn, Brown, Winfield & Canzoneri, Thomas F. Winfield III, Louis E. Goebel, Ruth R. Mijuskovic and Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants and Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Herbert M. Rosenthal and Gael T. Infande as Amici Curiae.


OPINION

CLARK, J.

Plaintiff associations commenced this mandamus action against the City Council of Los Angeles and certain of its members, challenging approval of a subdivision map for a real estate development by real party in interest.1

The trial court initially denied the petition but on appeal that judgment was reversed, the Court of Appeal concluding...

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