{"id":4034,"date":"2012-10-25T10:51:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2012-10-25T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T17:51:50","slug":"hastain-trail-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2012\/10\/25\/hastain-trail-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastain Trail Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in March 2011<\/a>\u00a0we reported on a developer’s attempts to cut off the Hastain trail, which has been in public use for more than forty years. A group of local advocates and trail lovers led by Ellen Scott, through the Save Franklin Canyon<\/a> group, fought the developer’s attempts to close public access to the trail. They garnered petition signatures and did a great job of alerting the trail using public about what was at stake.<\/p>\n

The Mountains Recreation Conservation Authority joined the plaintiffs in the suite, and brought in additional legal resources.<\/p>\n

There were enough legacy hikers–people who could testify and verify that they had been using the trail since before 1972–to legally establish grounds for a prescriptive easement. \u00a0Judge Palazuelos, who\u00a0presided over the case,\u00a0\u00a0personally toured the trail at the request of the plaintiffs.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, October 16, 2012, the Court made a tentative ruling in favor of the plaintiffs. The defendant, Coldwater Development LLC, have been ordered to remove all equipment and fences from the trail. A public easement has been permanently established.<\/p>\n

We thank this dedicated group of concerned trail users, that included many local hikers and some cyclists, for their diligent efforts to keep this trail open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in March 2011\u00a0we reported on a developer’s attempts to cut off the Hastain trail, which has been in public use for more than forty years. A group of local advocates and trail lovers led by Ellen Scott, through the Save Franklin Canyon group, fought the developer’s attempts to close public access to the trail. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}