Moss

This is an appeal from a judgment granting a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the Board of Zoning Adjustment of the City of Los Angeles (hereafter sometimes referred to as “Board”) and the City of Los Angeles (hereafter referred to as “City”) to execute, file and distribute the findings prepared by a secretary for the Board, in an appeal from a determination made by a zoning administrator.

Respondents are the owners of a three-acre parcel of vacant land located at or near the southwesterly corner of Burbank and Balboa Boulevards in the San Fernando Valley area of the city and presently zoned for residential purposes. On August 12, 1966, respondents filed with the zoning administrator, an application for a zone variance on respondents’ property to permit the erection of a 100-unit motel, restaurant, coffee shop, cocktail lounge and automobile service station.

Section 98 of the Charter of the City authorizes a zoning administrator to grant a variance provided, among other things that he first make in writing, the four findings enumerated therein. In this ease the zoning administrator, through an associate zoning administrator denied the application for the variance on…