Legal Opinion
Neighborhood Action Group v. County of Calaveras
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 8, 1984No. Civ. 22468PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BLEASE, J.
In this case we decide that the issuance of a conditional use permit is ultra vires if the general plan of the issuing entity (see Gov. Code, § 65300 et seq.) 1 does not conform to mandatory statutory criteria which are relevant to the uses sought by the permit.
The controversy arises from the transportation of processed detritus from hydraulic gold mining, California’s archetypical environmental dispute. Calaveras County granted Teichert Construction Company a conditional use permit to process hydraulic mine tailings for the production of sand and gravel. Plaintiffs seek to…
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