Court Rejects City's Findings, Throws Out Car Wash Variance

An appellate court has overturned the City of Los Angeles’s approval of a variance that allowed the expansion of a nonconforming use. The court determined that a proposal to expand a gas station located in a residential zone did not meet the city’s criteria for a variance.

Specifically, the Second District Court of Appeal found that there was no evidence that imposing existing zoning requirements would create a hardship for the landowner or business owner — a requirement for a variance.

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