City of Hesperia v. Lake Arrowhead Cmty. Servs. Dist.

*739Over the years since at least 1959, the Legislature has attempted to achieve a balance between the state's interest in allowing local agencies to produce, generate, store, and transmit water or electrical energy and the cites' and counties' control over local building and zoning. This appeal requires the court to consider whether a solar energy project proposed by a local agency, the Lake Arrowhead Community Services District (District), is exempt from-or whether the District must comply with-the zoning ordinances of the city in which the project is to be developed, the City of Hesperia…