Traverso v. People ex rel. Department of Transportation

Opinion

DAVIS, J.

Plaintiff Richard Traverso does business as ADCO Outdoor Advertising (ADCO). ADCO applied for a permit to place a billboard. Defendant Department of Transportation (Caltrans)1 denied the application. ADCO unsuccessfully petitioned for a writ of traditional mandamus (Code Civ. Proc., § 1085) to overturn this determination. On appeal, ADCO maintains Caltrans and the trial court misconstrued the scope of the authority vested in Caltrans by the Outdoor Advertising Act (the Act) (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 5200 et seq. [undesignated section references will be to this code]) to require…