Case Summary

Superior Court orders City to halt further approvals of building permits that are inconsistent with its applicable community plans (approximately one out of four permits then being issued) and to bring all parcels then inconsistent with the applicable community plan (approximately one-third of the City’s parcels composing of a total area the size of Chicago) into consistency with those plans; with the oversight of a court-appointed referee, the City completes the rezoning program and describes it as its “most important accomplishment of the decade.”