Metro Realty v. County of El Dorado

These are plaintiff’s appeals from judgments in favor of defendant County of Bl Dorado in two actions consolidated for trial, the first, under Business and Professions Code section 11525, challenging as unreasonable an order by the county board of supervisors rejecting plaintiff’s tentative subdivision map; and the second, an action urging invalidity of two zoning ordinances.

The county is studying a comprehensive eountywide water development and conservation plan to meet the needs of its growing population. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, on November 17, 1960, acting under contract with Bl Dorado County Water Agency, made its report recommending a reservoir site in the Texas Hill area of western Bl Dorado County as a “most attractive possibility.”

On the same day plaintiff contracted to purchase 188 acres of land on Weber Creek in said Texas Hill area and thereafter submitted a tentative map proposing to subdivide the purchased acreage into homesites.

On April 24, 1961, Ordinance No. 456 (the first of the two ordinances challenged) was adopted by the board of supervisors under Government Code section 65806 as an urgency interim measure. It zoned plaintiff's property…