RECENT CALIFORNIA DECISIONS

January 2005

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First District Court Finds Alameda Initiative to Amend County General Plan Inapplicable to Previously Issued Surface Mining Permit
Save Our Sunol, Inc. v. Mission Valley Rock Company, ___Cal.App.4th___

On November 19, 2004, the California Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District ruled that a voter-approved county initiative that amended the county’s general plan, did not apply retroactively to impact a previously approved surface mining operation.