Judge denies all demands made by North County Advocates in 4-year-old case based on voter initiative
The San Diego Superior Court has ruled in favor of Carlsbad in a lawsuit filed by the local nonprofit North County Advocates that alleged the city failed to follow a growth management plan voters approved in 1986. Judge Robert P. Dahlquist found that while the city may fail to meet the performance standards in the plan, recent appellate case law shows the city can modify those standards in some cases.
'The city cites several cases in support of its assertion that the city is permitted to change the 1986 performance standards whenever it sees fit.' The city also is within its legal rights in its decisions on parks and open space, Dahlquist said. In hindsight, the judge said, 'the citizens should have enacted an initiative that ... provided that the standards could not be changed except by another vote of the citizens.' Dahlquist announced his decision Oct.
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