PACIFIC PALISADES BOWL MOBILE ESTATES, LLC v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES Part-I
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-1698443-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> <html ><br /> <head><br /> <title>PACIFIC PALISADES BOWL MOBILE ESTATES, LLC v</title><br /> </head><br /> <body><br /> <div><br /> <br/><b<br /> >PACIFIC<br /> PALISADES BOWL </b><b >MOBILE</b><b > ESTATES, LLC v. CITY OF </b><b<br /> >LOS<br /> ANGELES</b><b ></b><br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>Filed 8/31/10<br /> <br/><b<br /> > </b><br /> <br/><b<br /> > </b><br /> <br/><b<br /> > </b><br /> <br/><b<br /> > </b><br /> <br/><b<br /> >CERTIFIED<br /> FOR PUBLICATION</b><br /> <br/><b<br /> > </b><br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>DIVISION FOUR<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0<br /> ><br /> <tr ><br /> <td width=319 valign=top ><br /> <br/>PACIFIC<br /> PALISADES BOWL MOBILE ESTATES, LLC,<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> Plaintiff and Appellant,<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> v.<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>CITY<br /> OF LOS ANGELES,<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> Defendant and Appellant.<br /> <br/> <br /> </td><br /> <td width=319 valign=top ><br /> <br/> B216515<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> (Los Angeles County<br /> <br/> Super. Ct. No. BS112956)<br /> <br/> <br /> </td><br /> </tr><br /> </table><br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior<br /> Court for Los<br /> Angeles County, James C. Chalfant, Judge. <br /> Reversed.<br /> <br/> Blum Collins and Craig M. Collins for<br /> Plaintiff and Appellant.<br /> <br/> Carmen A. Trutanich, City Attorney,<br /> Jeri L. Burge, Assistant City Attorney, and Amy Brothers, Deputy City Attorney,<br /> for Defendant and Appellant. <br /> <br/> Aleshire & Wynder, William W.<br /> Wynder and Sunny K. Soltani for Amicus Curiae Palisades Bowl Residents'<br /> Association, Inc. and City of Carson in support of City of Los Angeles.<br /> <br/> Law Office of William J. Constantine and<br /> William J. Constantine for Amicus Curiae The Golden State Manufactured Home<br /> Owners' League in support of City of Los Angeles.<br /> <br/> Bien & Summers, Elliot L. Bien and<br /> Amy E. Margolin for Amicus Curiae Western Manufactured Housing Communities<br /> Association in support of Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates, LLC.<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> The California Legislature enacted a<br /> statute -- Government Code<b ><b >[1]</b></b><br /> section 66427.5 -- that facilitates the conversion of mobilehome parks to<br /> resident ownership by limiting a local authority's traditional power to<br /> regulate development within the local authority's territory when the proposed<br /> development is the conversion of a mobilehome park. That statute imposes certain specific<br /> requirements on the subdivider seeking the conversion (aimed at preventing the<br /> displacement of current residents, particularly those with lower incomes), and<br /> provides that the scope of the hearing at which the local authority may<br /> approve, conditionally approve, or deny the tentative map â€