Park Area Neighbors v. Town of Fairfax
California Court of Appeal
[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HAERLE, J.
I. Introduction
In this case we hold that an absence of legal representation in administrative proceedings, and purported misadvice by an agency official as to the proper method of taking an administrative appeal, do not excuse a prospective litigant from the requirement of exhausting administrative remedies as a jurisdictional prerequisite to resort to the courts.
Park Area Neighbors (PAN) appeals from a judgment denying a petition for a writ of administrative mandate (Code Civ. Proc., § 1094.5) by which PAN challenged the Town of Fairfax’s approval of a low-income housing…
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