City of Escondido v. Pacific Harmony Grove Development
Opinion
Opinion
Filed 8/26/
CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION
COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION ONE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
CITY OF ESCONDIDO, D077549
Plaintiff and Respondent,
v. (Super. Ct. No. 37-2016- 00010237-CU-EI-NC)
PACIFIC HARMONY GROVE
DEVELOPMENT, LLC, et al.,
Defendants and Appellants.
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Jacqueline M. Stern, Judge. Affirmed. Blanchard Krasner & French, Steven M Silva, John F. Whittemore; Morrison & Foerster, Benjamin J. Fox, Matthew E. Ladew, Mark C. Zebrowski and James R. Sigel for Defendants and Appellants. Dean Gazzo Roistacher, Lee H. Roistacher, Scott Noya; Daley & Heft, and Dennis W. Daley for Plaintiff and Respondent.
Pacific Harmony Grove Development, LLC and Mission Valley Corporate Center, Ltd. (Owners) appeal the judgment entered in a condemnation case following the first phase of a bifurcated trial at which the trial court resolved certain legal issues concerning how to value the condemned property. The City of Escondido (City) sought to acquire by condemnation from Owners a 72-foot-wide strip of land (the strip) across a mostly…