General Plan Trumps Zoning In SB 330 Case
For decades, it’s been an article of faith that you can create an expansive general plan designation and then box individual zoning with more specific zoning designations – often, a zoning designation that allows a lower density than the general plan would permit. But now a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ruled that under SB 330 the general plan designation prevails – and single-family zoning means essentially nothing.
