Valenta v. County of Los Angeles

This case involves a claim of inverse condemnation for damages to plaintiffs’ property resulting from a cul-de-sac. Although plaintiffs’ property lies in an unincorporated, rather than incorporated, area, we explain why we have concluded that the principle of substantial impairment of access, as expressed in Breidert v. Southern Pac. Co. (1964) ante, p. 659 [39 Cal.Rptr. 903, 394 P.2d 719], which there applies to an incorporated area, is equally applicable here.

Plaintiffs are the owners of one-half of a quarter section of land in the small rural community of Vincent, an unincorporated area of…