ABSTRACT
Mandamus proceeding to require Los Angeles board of supervisors to vacate its order awarding a variance. The Superior Court, Los Angeles County, Robert A. Wenke, J., denied mandamus, and appeal was taken. The Supreme Court, Tobriner, J., held that an administrative grant of a variance must be accompanied by administrative findings, that a reviewing court, before sustaining grant of a variance, must scrutinize record and determine whether substantial evidence supports administrative agency's findings and whether these findings support agency's decision, and that planning commission's summary of "factual data," which focused almost exclusively on qualities of property for which variance was sought, did not include facts sufficient to satisfy statutory variance requirements.
