Davenport’s battered barn to stay just that

Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | February 19, 2005 | Genevieve Bookwalter, Sentinel Staff Writer

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Davenport’s battered barn to stay just that

Sierra Club court victory ends plan for wine and cheese shop

By GENEVIEVE BOOKWALTER
SENTINEL STAFF WRITER

DAVENPORT — David Luers had a dream: Buy the dilapidated barn off Highway 1, demolish it and build a wine and cheese shop he’d run with his wife.

Santa Cruz County officials approved the plan, as did the state Coastal Commission.

But nine years after buying the abandoned structure at Highway 1, Old Coast Road and Davenport Avenue, Luers is living in Idaho, where he’s running a gift shop and wondering how he can unload the property.

Earlier this month, a San Francisco Superior Court judge agreed with Sierra Club arguments that Luers’ plans for a 6,000-square-foot building encroached on environmentally sensitive San Vicente Creek — home to protected coho salmon, steelhead trout and red-legged frogs.

[SirLurkedalot]

LOL Not if I was swinging it. (God, I wish I owned a logging company!) Funny how the cars around here with the most enviro/lefty/meathead bumperstickers look like they're putting out frickin smokecreens because they're so out of tune, all the while showing their "love for all humanity" by flipping me off because of the Jesus/pro-Bush stuff on the back of mine.

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RE: "Seems like these "nature" clubs get too much money to burn."

...MEGABUMP!!!

[1FASTGLOCK45]

Yea, I've seen those out of tune cars "envirowackos" drive. They do plaster those stickers and make you cough both ways. The more conservative econowankers drive those little gas sipping cars but they gulp the gas because they drive them @100mph.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

Original Post Thanks for the laughs! Good watermelon analogy on the libs!

[decimon]

gggrrrrrr... its none of the governments business what people do with their own land.... and BTW- I also don't think the government should own land its not using for a governing purpose.

There is an exception in this case - the creek running through multiple properties. You would surely object to my dumping effluent into a creek on my property which then runs through your property.

[SirLurkedalot]

I like cutting them off in my Crown Vic so they can see the "gallery".

[hoosierham]

Around here the ecology license plates are mostly on big s.u.v. with the occassional volvo. Self-imposed penance or just stupidity ? (I vote for stupidity;never give extra money to the gov't )

[SirLurkedalot]

LOL Doing 90 while babbling on a cell phone, right? Are you in Indiana? Got some family in Ft Wayne and South Bend, Dad was born in Indianapolis. (Stupid gets my vote too!)

[1FASTGLOCK45]

HEHEHE
Swerve safely !

[SirLurkedalot]

LOL I almost lost it on the Fishhook coming home yesterday morning (wet roads, no lib involved).

[APFel]

Hm... I wonder if he could put a REALLY tall lightning rod on the top of the barn, fill it with hay and hope for the best...?

Still probably couldn't build on it, but...

APf

[sergeantdave]

Clearly a taking. The owner will get a few million after the case winds itself thru the bureaucracy, state courts and finally the federal court. The supreme court's decision in First English Evangelical will see to that.

Unfortunately, neither the fascist pig judge nor the Marxists in the Sierra Club will pay. The taxpayer will.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[hedgetrimmer]

Not just the government, but the Sierra Club too.

[GeronL]

That would be an obvious case of violating someone else's property rights, BTW wasn't it the enviro-wacko's who made the gov't force gas companies to add MBTE to gasoline?? The stuff that is poisoning water???

Anyway, especially since these days the creek is more decorative than for water uses, dumping crap into the creek is not only damaging its probably pointless. Don't they have septic tanks these days?? (who says I'm against the water utilities??)

Everyone whose property abuts the creek, IMO should be considered a part owner of it.

[clamper1797]

I live about 30 min from Davenport. Down the coast from it

Westcliff at Swift street for many years.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

I'm over in La Selva beach area. its a lovely drive in the summer.. When there's no traffic!

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Thanks for your help!

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Bumper sticker...? Did I hear someone was looking for a...

...BUMPER STICKER...???!!!

   
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