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Land Use

Jul. 31, 2024

Property company sues Sacramento for failing to police vagrancy

"The City has allowed a vagrancy problem to persist in the neighborhood," wrote the company's lawyer, David A. Diepenbrock.

A property company sued Sacramento for losses relating to a building it claims was damaged by the city's refusal to address its homelessness problem. A series of break-ins at the former frozen fish storage facility culminated in a huge fire last summer that destroyed its main structure and was visible for miles.

The complaint by Bugatto Sacramento Properties Inc. claims a cause of action for inverse condemnation. Plaintiffs have invoked California's inverse condemnation law in sc...

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