HIDDEN RANCH DEBATE CONTINUES PROJECT DEVELOPER SEEKS REHEARING OF LAST WEEK'S DISMISSAL.Byline: Paul O'Donoghue Staff Writer MOORPARK - Legal wrangling over Hidden Creek Ranch is likely to continue with the attorney for the developer of the 3,221-home project saying she will seek a rehearing rehearing n. conducting a hearing again based on the motion of one of the parties to a lawsuit, petition or criminal prosecution, usually by the court or agency which originally heard the matter. of a suit dismissed by a state appeals court. The appeals court in Ventura dismissed the developer's suit last week, challenging the validity of a Moorpark referendum that rejected the project's development agreement. ``We're planning to petition for a rehearing on the grounds that the opinion (of the court) misunderstood one issue and didn't address one (other),'' said Wendy Lascher, the attorney for Costa Mesa-based Messenger Investment Co. ``We were very disappointed with the dismissal of the appeal.'' Last week's dismissal follows last year's lower court denial of Messenger's request to remove the measure by the Committee to Qualify Hidden Creek Referendum from the Jan. 12 ballot. That measure, led by local environmental activists Clint Harper and Roseann Mikos, was approved overwhelmingly by the voters along with the Save Open-space and Agricultural Resources measure that was on the same ballot. The case over the development agreement is one of three about the Hidden Creek project, a planned development on 4,300 acres north of Campus Park. Attorney Richard Francis Richard Francis (dates unknown) was a famous English cricketer who played for the Hambledon Club. Francis is known to have been a Surrey man by birth and he had played for Surrey teams before moving to Hampshire. He made 47 known first-class appearances from 1773 until 1793. , co-author co·au·thor or co-au·thor n. A collaborating or joint author. tr.v. co·au·thored, co·au·thor·ing, co·au·thors To be a collaborating or joint author of: "He and a colleague . . . of the county's SOAR initiative and a leader of the Environmental Coalition that opposes the Hidden Creek project, hailed the Court of Appeal's dismissal of Messenger's case. ``How gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. it is,'' Francis said. ``This is a big win for the Environmental Coalition and SOAR forces.'' In related action, Francis said he received notice Monday that Messenger's attorneys are planning to appeal a ruling by Superior Court Judge Thomas Hutchins Thomas Hutchins (1730 – April 28, 1789) was a Military Engineer, Cartographer, Geographer and Surveyor. Hutchins was Geographer of the United States (see Department of the Geographer to the Army, 1777-1783) from 1781. last year that the Local Agency Formation Commission had improperly allowed annexation annexation, in international law, formal act by which a state asserts its sovereignty over a territory previously outside its jurisdiction. Many kinds of territory have been subject to annexation, chief among them those inhabited by settlers of the annexing power, of the Hidden Ranch property to Moorpark. |
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