Simi Valley Recreation & Park District v. Local Agency Formation Commission

This is an appeal from a judgment of dismissal after demurrers were sustained (without leave to amend) to all 14 causes of action of a petition for writ of mandate. Petitioners Simi Valley Recreation and Park District (hereinafter “District”), and Marietta R. Spotts and John K. Hubbell, residents and property owners within the district, sought by their petition to nullify the determinations of respondents Local Agency Formation Commission of Ventura County (hereinafter “LAFCO”) and Board of Supervisors of Ventura County (hereinafter “Board”) approving and carrying out the detachment of some 10,000 acres of undeveloped land from the territory encompassed within the District.

Each of the 14 causes of action included in the petition as amended asserted a different theory for the claimed invalidity of the action taken. The demurrer was made “generally to the Petition on file herein and to each separate cause of action therein on the grounds that neither the Petition nor any of the individual causes of action therein allege facts sufficient to state a cause of action against respondents.” The seventh cause of action was demurred to on the ground that it was on its face barred…