Land Use,
Environmental & Energy,
Civil Litigation
Jan. 7, 2022
Lake County judge halts planned resort, citing wildfires
The ruling by Superior Court Judge J. David Markham is the latest in a trend of judge’s looking skeptically on developments they don’t believe have adequately considered fire danger.
A Lake County judge halted the development of a $1 billion luxury resort this week, saying the development plans failed to consider how thousands of future residents would escape if a wildfire ignited in the fire-prone area.
Seeking to stop the development through a petition for a writ of mandate, the Center for Biological Diversity said the Lake County board of supervisors violated the California Environmental Quality Act when it approved...
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