Cormier

—Here we decide that the adoption of an amendment to a county’s general plan which results in rezoning of property within that county is a legislative act which does not require specific findings.

On March 10, 1982, Jay Cormier filed a petition for writ of mandate to compel the County of San Luis Obispo (County), its board of supervisors (Board) and planning commission (Commission) to reclassify and rezone his seven-acre parcel of real property. He combined this with a complaint for declaratory relief to determine whether the County’s general plan amendment which had down zoned his property was invalid. Cormier alleged, among other things, that the San Luis Obispo Land Use Element/Land Use Ordinance of 1980 was invalid as applied to down zone his property, and that the Board’s action was arbitrary, discriminatory, and capricious and constituted an invalid exercise of local police and zoning powers. Cormier further alleged that the Board did not make requisite findings of fact that the down zoning and reclassification bore a substantial and reasonable relationship to the promotion of the public health, safety and welfare.

We affirm the trial court’s decision denying…