Gammoh v. City of Anaheim

Opinion

SILLS, P. J.

This “adult cabaret” zoning case in state court begins with another such case involving the same city that was decided in federal court. In Dease v. City of Anaheim (C.D.Cal. 1993) 826 F.Supp. 336, the local federal district court struck down Anaheim’s conditional use permit zoning ordinance for “adult entertainment.” The sin of Anaheim’s ordinance, according to the Dease decision, was that it was not a true zoning ordinance, but a prior restraint on free speech because it invested the Anaheim Planning Commission with excessive substantive discretion as to whether a…