Bending the Rules in the Foothills—County General Planning in Exurban Northern California

Abstract

The article directs attention to county planning in exurbia. Through a case study of a small, unincorporated community in the foothills of northern California, the research examines county planning as a flexible process that revisited zoning several times in its general plan update, eventually redefining and recodifying this exurban space as a working landscape. Using the concept of “creative law breaking,” the study shows that by publicly threatening to defy unreasonable land-use restrictions, activists in the community provided useful information to planners about the diversity and hybrid nature of exurban communities.

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