Midway Orchards v. County of Butte
California Court of Appeal
[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SIMS, J.
In this opinion we decide two related appeals which have been consolidated at the request of one of the parties.
Both appeals involve unsuccessful attempts by Midway Orchards and Southfork Developers (collectively Midway) to develop for residential purposes a 110-acre almond orchard located about 2 miles outside the City of Chico (City).
In an unpublished portion of the opinion, 1 we first consider appeal No. C004316. There, we reject Midway’s attack on a 1982 amendment to the Butte County General Plan (General Plan) that restricted Midway’s orchard property to agricultural uses…
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