Hill RHF Housing Partners, L.P. v. City of Los Angeles<\/em><\/a>, S263734 involves business improvement districts. “The opportunity to comment on a proposed BID does not involve the sort of ‘clearly defined machinery for the submission, evaluation and resolution of complaints by aggrieved parties’ [citation]\u00a0 that has allowed us to infer an exhaustion requirement in other contexts.” I think that is correct.<\/p>\nOpportunity to comment is not like an administrative decision to decide an applicant’s claim. Agencies which receive comments are sometimes free to just ignore them. Even when a response is required, it does not take a lot to meet that requirement. Comment processes are often little more than going through the motions.<\/p>\n
Another reason, not present in this case, why public comment processes should generally not cut off rights is that the “notice” part of the process often fails to reach a great many people affected by the change.<\/p>\n
Hopefully this decision will lead to the demise of “but they didn’t comment” defenses in administrative matters in the future.<\/p>\n
* And I thought when I took this job I could forget all about civil litigation, which I never liked. Oh, well, it worked for the first 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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