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Yesterday, the California Coastal Commission voted to amend the permit to renovate the Marshall Tavern, reducing project-killing conditions that had no connection to the renovation plan.  PLF is representing the owners of Marshall Tavern, Daniel Altman and Avi Atid, in their constitutional challenge to the conditions imposed on their original perm ...

I will be a guest on the Jim Franklin Live show on Sunday afternoon to discuss PLF’s challenge to the conditions that the California Coastal Commission is imposing on the renovation of the Marshall Tavern.  The program will air from 2-4 p.m. on KION 1460 AM & 101.1 FM in Fresno. … ...

Friday afternoon, the Marin Independent Journal ran a story on PLF clients Daniel Altman and Avid Atid’s challenge to the unconstitutional conditions that the California Coastal Commission put on their permit to redevelop their property.  The story quotes Daniel Altman on the effects of the conditions: “The commission’s costly de ...

Today, PLF filed a lawsuit in Marin County Superior Court asking that the court invalidate three burdensome and unreasonable permit conditions that the California Coastal Commission imposed on property owners in violation of the Constitution. In this case, Daniel Altman and Avi Atid want to restore an important historic structure on Tomales Bay, an ...

That is the heart of the question surrounding Assembly Bill 976, which would grant the Commission authority to level civil penalties against property owners without having to go to court.  As we’ve previously reported, giving additional power to an agency with a documented and lengthy history of violating property owner’s constitutiona ...

Property Rights — Regulatory Taking Victory The California First District Court of Appeal issued a huge victory for landowners in this opinion in Lockaway Storage v. County of Alameda. Acting on assurances from county planners that a boat and r.v. storage yard could be built, Lockaway purchased property and spent hundreds of thousands of doll ...