California Court of Appeal

Order requiring defendant-county to lower fees for building inspections and construction plan checks based on a surplus of fee revenues is affirmed over claims that: 1) the trial court misconstrued Government Code section 54985 as incorporating a reasonableness standard from the federal Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87; 2) the record demonstrated all defendant's expenditures were reasonable and necessary; 3) attorney's fees were unwarranted as the litigation result did not confer a significant benefit on the general public and merely served plaintiffs' pecuniary interest; and 4) the trial court erred in its construction of Government Code section 66016(a).

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/30/2007
• Published 05/01/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Law Offices of Walter P. McNeill and Walter P. McNeill, Redding, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Best Best & Krieger, Jeffrey V. Dunn and Marc S. Ehrlich, Irvine, for Defendants and Appellants.