My Yahoo pointed me to the article and I read it just before your posting. The article makes it seem like “poor little HMB had a problem with a Beachwood lawsuit.” Read the lengthy reader comment on the history of Beachwood — the typical arrogant city behavior in the 90’s will turn your stomach.
The city granted a developer rights to build a subdivision on the 24 acre Beachwood parcel just north of town. They made him pay $1.5 million to add sewers and widen Hwy 1. Then they did an about face and decided “no more growth” by banning any new sewer connections. The developer’s property value sank tens of millions dollars and he lost the value of the improvements he made as well. The city seemingly cherry-picked environmental rules to claim that there were “wetlands” so the property couldn’t be improved. There were arguments that the city actually created the wetlands to win their case. A series of lawsuits ultimately led to an out of court settlement against the city.
The city brought all this on by itself.
Damn betcha!
Neither the loony left residents nor the city management should get any sympathy whatsoever.
I remember that. There were a lot of posts on FR about it.
Yep!
I followed the same path you did to learn about the Beachwood lawsuit. So much for poor HMB victims. Did you notice the judge that ruled in the 36 million dollar judgment? The same schmuck (Vaughn Walker) that just ruled against Prop 8 (gay marriage).