Chapter 7 - HER OWN HOUSE STOOD IN THE WAY OF THE LEGAL ROAD
The next clue was nastier.
The north-side permanent access corridor still existed on paper.
But in practice, it now crossed land that had been turned into a greenbelt, a riding trail, and the rear corners of several premium Pine Ridge lots.
One of those lots belonged to Corrine Ashburn.
Another belonged to her closest ally on the board.
If the HOA revived the legal route it should have built years ago, Corrine’s quiet backyard trail, decorative fencing, and part of her prized “open-space view” would be gone.
That was why she wanted my road widened and converted into a permanent HOA right.
It wasn’t just cheaper.
It kept the inconvenience on me instead of on her own neighborhood.
Linda Havel put it bluntly in a deposition:
“Corrine didn’t want homeowners learning the solution had always existed if it meant touching the homes of people she played pickleball with.”
More than half the Pine Ridge residents learned that fact within a week.
The HOA page turned from a cheering section into a firing squad.
Parents wanted the legal road if it ended the lawsuit. Longtime residents felt deceived. Three board members resigned.
Corrine responded the way certain people always do when control starts slipping.
She got louder.
She said the northern corridor was “infeasible.”
She said the county maps were outdated.
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She said ranchers romanticized history.
But once that argument left social media and entered sworn testimony, it had to survive engineering.
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