Griffin Development Co. v. City of Oxnard

I dissent.

Under the ordinance of the City of Oxnard, the American dream of home ownership has become a nightmare: the city has placed unreasonable barriers in the way of those frugal families who prefer at the end of the year to have an enhanced equity in a piece of real property instead of 12 rent receipts.

To the city fathers of Oxnard the condominium apparently represents a sinister concept, rather than an increasingly popular form of home ownership. The result of this phobia is the ordinance at issue, purportedly regulatory, but conceded by the city attorney at oral argument to be…