C.A. 4th
D060001
The Fourth Appellate District affirmed a judgment in part and reversed in part with directions. The court held that a city’s failure to timely provide a map documenting physical and economic blight within a redevelopment area, and its failure to provide specific evidence supporting its blight findings, reflected statutory violations of the Community Redevelopment Law that warranted a trial court’s entry of a reverse validation order. The court held further that the city violated the Public Records Act where it failed to interpret information requests as made by a member of the public that was not presumably as familiar with the underlying data, and to facilitate a reasonable effort to locate and release the information held by a private consultant and the municipal police department.
