Avco Community Developers, Inc. v. South Coast Regional Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that developer had not acquired a vested right to develop property even though it had completed storm drains, street improvement, and utilities, incurring over $2 million in expenses plus liabilities, because the developer had not obtained a building permit
• “[I]t is settled that the government may not contract away its right to exercise the police power in the future.”
• creation of vested right where developer performs substantial work and incurs substantial liability on good faith reliance on building permit
• a governmental authority may not contract away its right to exercise its police power in the future
• creation of vested right where developer performs substantial work and incurs substantial liability on good faith reliance on building permit
• preliminary governmental approval not sufficient to support vested right

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).