Azusa Land v. DIR: "Public Work" in Prevailing Wage Action Includes Public Infrastructure Constructed at Private Expense

In Azusa Land Partners v. Department of Industrial Relations (12/21/2010) 191 Cal.App.4th 1, the Court of Appeal held that where a developer contracts with a governmental entity to construct a master planned community, including public infrastructure and improvement work, and the public infrastructure and improvement work is to be funded at least in part with Mello-Roos tax bonds as a condition of regulatory approval for the project, then all construction of required public improvements is "public work" under Labor Code section 1720, and all such construction, including those portions of the public infrastructure constructed at private expense, is subject to prevailing wage requirements. The opinion is available here.