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Board approves amended Blaze Engineering permit after neighbors, county reach conditional settlement
Summary
After litigation and repeated appeals, the Board of Supervisors approved a second amendment to Blaze Engineering’s combined development permit to omit employee housing, remove two hazardous cypress trees and allow limited site changes tied to a conditional settlement with neighbors.
Monterey County supervisors voted March 18 to approve a second amendment to a previously issued combined development permit for Blaze Engineering, resolving a multi-year dispute and a pair of lawsuits between the applicant and adjacent neighbors.
The permit change implements a negotiated settlement between the applicant and neighboring property owners, the Donaldsons, that county staff said will dismiss pending lawsuits if the settlement is implemented. "We find [the conditions] entirely satisfactory," Angus Jeffers, attorney for applicant Marty Morgenrath of…
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