COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO v. RANCHO VISTA DEL MAR, INC.

Docket No. D014096.

16 Cal.App.4th 1046 (1993)

20 Cal. Rptr.2d 675

COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. RANCHO VISTA DEL MAR, INC., et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

June 23, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Lloyd M. Harmon, Jr., County Counsel, Diane Bardsley, Chief Deputy County Counsel, Lewis P. Zollinger, Deputy County Counsel, Matteoni, Saxe & Nanda, Norman E. Matteoni, Peggy M. O'Laughlin, Endeman, Lincoln, Turek & Heater, Ronald L. Endeman, Donald R. Lincoln and David Semelsberger for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Marvin Goldsmith, Assistant Attorney General, Robert H. Francis and Marsha S. Miller, Deputy Attorneys General, B.C. Barmann, County Counsel (Kern) and Mark L. Nations as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Thorsnes, Bartolotta, McGuire & Padilla, Michael T. Thorsnes, Vincent J. Bartolotta, Jr., Haskins, Nugent & Newnham, Michael H. Fish, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Gideon Kanner, Hufstedler, Kaus & Ettinger and Otto M. Kaus for Defendants and Appellants.


OPINION

KREMER, P.J.

The primary issue presented by this case is whether a property owner whose land is condemned for a jail may value his property based on a highest and best use as a private detention facility. We conclude the answer is no and therefore reverse.

FACTS

The property here is a parcel of about 525 acres of primarily vacant, undeveloped property in the...

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