The Second Appellate District granted a petition for writ of mandate and remanded. The court held that evidence that a city had been acquiring properties near an airport, demolishing their structures, and leaving the land vacant did not establish that the city intended to acquire through condemnation other properties near the airport.
Peter Plotkin and other individuals and entities (collectively, Plotkin) were the owners of properties in two neighborhoods that were near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Plotkin sued the City of Los Angeles for inverse condemnation as well as damages for “condemnation blight.”
