A Napa Valley, Calif., premium wine maker is accusing county planners of overreaching, erroneously interpreting planning codes and penalizing him for removing wildfire-scorched trees and an experimental vine planting.
In a complaint filed Thursday at Napa County Superior Court, vintner Jayson Woodbridge’s Hundred Acre Wine Group Inc. says many landowners in the region “have been confronted with mountainous red tape and endless bureaucratic obstacles, when applying for permits to develop productive vineyards to which the land is ideally suited.”
The winemaker’s removing “dead, charred remains of fire-killed trees and stumps was not vegetation clearing and did not involve excavation,” and ...
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