Save South Park, Inc. filed a lawsuit in the Eleventh Judicial District Court, Sept. 14, against Park County Commissioners, High Speed Mining, LLC, High Speed Aggregate, Inc. and Lance Baller.
In addition to SSP, the lawsuit also has 28 individual plaintiffs.
The lawsuit, filed under Colorado Rules of Civil Procedures 57 and 106, claim the county commissioners violated Colorado’s open meetings law, exceeded their authority, abused their discretion and acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner by rezoning residential property to mining.
The county has 21 days to answer the complaint. County Attorney Lee Phillips said the county had not filed that answer as of Oct. 2.
