Edwards v. Steele

Opinion

RICHARDSON, J.

Plaintiff Martin Dale Edwards appeals from a judgment entered in favor of defendant R. Spencer Steele, the Zoning Administrator of the City and County of San Francisco, reversing a decision of the board of permit appeals (board) which had granted plaintiff a variance permit. We will retransfer the case to the Court of Appeal for its disposition of the merits of plaintiff’s appeal. (See Vella v. Hudgins (1977) 20 Cal.3d 251, 254 [142 Cal.Rptr. 414, 572 P.2d 28]; Taylor v. Union Pac. R. R. Corp. (1976) 16 Cal.3d 893, 895 [130 Cal.Rptr. 23, 549 P.2d 855].)

Plaintiff owns a…