Court Opinion

ID: 9541891
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:29:23.536644+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:05:08.689568
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*825MOSK, J.
I concur in the comparatively narrow issue resolved by the majority.
In doing so, however, I must repeat the misgivings I retain about the constitutional validity of no-growth or limited-growth ordinances. An impermissible elitist concept is invoked when a community constructs a legal moat around its perimeter to exclude all or most outsiders. The growing tendency of some communities to arbitrarily restrict housing to present residents appears at odds with Supreme Court pronouncements from Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) 334 U.S. 1 [92 L.Ed. 1161, 68 S.Ct. 836, 3 A.L.R.2d 441], to the words of Justice Douglas in Reitman v. Mulkey (1967) 387 U.S. 369, 385 [18 L.Ed.2d 830, 840, 87 S.Ct. 1627]: “housing is clearly marked with the public interest.”
For an elaboration of views on this subject see my dissent in Associated Home Builders etc., Inc. v. City of Livermore (1976) 18 Cal.3d 582, 616 [135 Cal.Rptr. 41, 557 P.2d 473, 92 A.L.R.3d 1038].