Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Meanwhile, there is a secretive FBI probe targeting Napa Valley vineyard owners, while eco- extremist taunts vintner with property burning.There are signs that California is slowly waking up from its zombie-like stupor of mindlessly voting in Democrats.
For example, in deep blue San Francisco, voters are going right due to rampant crime in the area.
Now, Napa Valley’s famous wineries are revolting against eco-activist bureaucrats who are strangling their vineyards with climate cultism and red tape.
The wineries have one advantage over many people who are also being hurt by pseudoscience-spewing ninnies: They are rich enough to launch a lawfare campaign.
Wealthy vintners say they are being ‘crushed’ by ‘gross regulatory overreach’, which has included penalizing wineries for planting trees, making jam and conducting wine tastings on their own land.
One vineyard was even fined $1million for making too much wine.
There are fears that officials are cowing to ‘eco-mob extremists’, who view unfettered growth as a threat to their rural idyll.
But the grape growers behind Napa’s multibillion dollar industry are now fighting back, with a raft of lawsuits now pending against the county.
One example of the legal cases being brought against excessive regulatory overreach that is stopping him from developing an experimental hillside vineyard, which is due to be heard in November.
What the county officials assert and the realities on the ground appear to be 2 different things.
The case began in 2022 when Hundred Acre Jayson Woodbridge filed a lawsuit in Napa County Superior Court against Napa County alleging governmental overreach and deprivation of property rights.
One issue was the removal of burned trees and stumps from the destructive 2020 Glass Fire which “utterly” destroyed 80 acres of Woodbridge’s 113 acres and the development of a dry-farmed vineyard, according to the complaint.
A county official estimated 5 to 7 acres of steep land had been cleared and staked in 2022 for the vineyard, according to a court filing. The official also reported that earth moving activities had taken place within required setbacks of ephemeral streams, according to the declaration.
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