Opinion

Steiger v. Board of Supervisors

  • 143 Cal. App. 2d 352
  • 300 P.2d 210
  • 1956 Cal. App. LEXIS 1609
Court
California Court of Appeal
Filed
Jul 23, 1956
Status
Published
Author
Wood
On the bench
Wood, Vallée
Cited by
16 cases

The opinion

WOOD (Parker), J.

I concur in the judgment. Although the board of supervisors followed the strict “letter of the law,” as proclaimed in its ordinance allegedly providing for notice to property owners, the ordinance is one which, for all practical purposes of giving notice and according “due process of law” to property owners, is a total failure. The fact is that, regardless of the legal formalism of complying with an inadequate ordinance, there was no notice to the property owners as a result of the newspaper notice. There was evidence that the Culver City newspaper did not have any circulation in the area involved here. The policy of fair dealing *360 requires that a notice, which is calculated to give notice, should be given to property owners whose rights will be affected by spot zoning. If local political subdivisions cannot enact ordinances providing for adequate notice in such cases, it would seem that the matter should have the attention of the Legislature.

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