SB 585 of 1927

Senate Bill 585 (McKinley-1927)
Chapter 874, Statutes of 1927
                    

Legislative Counsel summarized Senate Bill 585 in its Legislative Digest, stating:

New general law.  Authorizes any county or city to establish for it an official plan showing street, parks and playgrounds, and provides for the details thereof, and for filing thereof.  Power granted also to create a planning board of five members; term of office five years.  Local legislative body may change or add to the officials.  Plats showing new streets, parks, etc., must be submitted to planning board for approval or disapproval . . . No public sewer or other municipal or public utility improvement shall be constructed in any city until latter is duly placed on the official plan.  No permit for erection of a building shall be issued unless the street giving access to such proposed structure has been placed on the official plan.  Certain tolerances granted.
(See Exhibit #5)  

Commentary on Senate Bill 585 in the California Real Estate Magazine provide the following background:

Governor Young signed Senate Bill 585, called the standard city and county planning act.  This measure, opposed by several subdividers, had general support throughout California.  It is a permissive act, and is discussed in more detail in this magazine under the signature of Harry Cheney, of Palos Verdes, who, with the League of California Municipalities, was largely responsible for its being carried through the legislature.  This measure had the endorsement of the Oakland City Planning conference last March.
(See Exhibit #9b, page 18)

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