California Supreme Court Archives

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Esperanza Hills Case

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on June 17, 2020 with No Comments

It is a big disappointment to hear that the California Supreme Court opted not to hear the case on Esperanza Hills. The Orange County Board of Supervisors approved the project–the latest iteration–with a 3-2 vote last September. These 340 multi-million dollar houses are proposed immediately adjacent to Chino Hills State Park. There is one more lawsuit appeal pending. A shout out to Protect Our Homes and Hills for its tireless work fighting for public safety in Yorba Linda. View the Orange County Register … Read More

Press Release on Stop Madrona Win

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on January 16, 2018 with No Comments

Check out the Hills For Everyone press release published in the Voice of OC on the Stop Madrona win. View the Press Release.

It’s Over. We Won Madrona.

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on January 12, 2018 with No Comments

The California Supreme Court has just turned down the developer’s request for review of the Madrona Project. Game Over. We won. After a 17 year battle to stop Madrona, a dangerous hillside development of 162 houses deep in the fire prone Carbon Canyon area of Brea, conservationists are celebrating a final victory. Hills For Everyone (and its co-petitioners) won at the Superior Court level in November 2015; we won at the Appellate Court level in October 2017, and we won … Read More

Ridgeline Case Resolved, “We” Won!

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on December 20, 2016 with No Comments

Hills For Everyone, along with many other organizations, signed on as a “friend of the court” in a case brought by residents in the City of Orange. In a unanimous decision, the State Supreme Court ruled in “our” favor. The case stems from a site called Ridgeline, where a developer had proposed converting open space into housing by relying on an old General Plan designation, even though a new Plan was in place stating it was open space. Residents overturned … Read More