Save Mount Diablo v. Contra Costa County

Opinion

HUMES, P. J.

Real parties in interest Ronald E. and Shirley Nunn bought a large tract of agricultural property in Contra Costa County. The tract was recorded as a single parcel, but it actually consisted of four separated parts of unequal size. These parts were formed years before the Nunns bought the property when a local agency acquired through eminent domain two narrow strips of land crossing the property and intersecting each other. A road was built on one strip, and a pipeline was buried under the other.

After the Nunns abandoned an effort to subdivide the property under the parcel…