Newport Beach— A community-based political action committee recently filed lawsuits against the developer of the Newport Back Bay Landing project, and the City Council in an effort to create “transparency” for the venture’s claimed liabilities.
Stop the Dunes Hotel, an advocacy group spearheaded by Bert Ohlig and Susan Skinner, assert in court documents that “the project is only part of the full project which the Environmental Impact Report did not analyze at all.”
Ohlig, who said the project’s description—to this point—is an “artist’s conceptual drawing,” wants the public to know all the details of the plan before it is approved.
“I expect to be treated fairly and honestly,” Ohlig said. “The project is wall-to-wall and straight up. I appreciate the outreach and so forth, but do what you say and say what you do.”
Michael Galfand, the president of Terra Vista Management which will manage the project, said he believes the lawsuit is “grasping at straws” and called the motion “ridiculous.”
Newport Beach City Council was served on March 27 by the Orange County Superior Court. The petition was originally filed on March 14 and includes lawsuits against the developer, Bayside Village Marina LLC, and the city.
The Back Bay Landing project, a proposed waterfront village...
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