Candid Enterprises, Inc. v. Grossmont Union High School District

Opinion

MOSK, J.

The major question we must decide in this case concerns what are commonly referred to as “school-impact fees”—i.e., fees that local governments impose on real property development to cover the costs of constructing and maintaining school facilities attributable to such development. The precise question is whether the School Facilities Act (sometimes hereafter the Act) (Gov. Code, § 65970 et seq.) 1 —which encourages local school boards to identify and local governments to deal with the problem of overcrowding, and to that end permits the imposition of school-impact fees to…