Lockard v. City of Los Angeles

This is an appeal by the city of Los Angeles from a judgment declaring certain provisions of a comprehensive zoning ordinance invalid and void insofar as it affects the use of a strip of property twelve blocks long within which plaintiffs’ property is situated.

The zoning scheme of defendant city adopted in June, 1946, classifies the city into 16 types of districts as follows: Two agricultural districts; one suburban district; five residential districts, zoned R-l through R-5 starting with the *456most highly restricted one-family residential areas through various grades of multiple dwellings;…