The Harris Ranch CID Taxpayers’ Association (HRCIDTA) were denied their latest attempt to convince a court to meddle with the Harris Ranch CID. In late July, an Ada County judge denied the HRCIDTA’s request to grant a re-hearing of the case it lost in April, when all 16 of its claims against the Harris Ranch CID were struck down.
The HRCIDTA appears to have requested the re-hearing without bringing new evidence or providing new information for the court’s consideration. Instead, they simply restated their arguments. In the decision, the judge wrote:
“The Court finds many of Petitioners’ arguments on the Petition for Rehearing, including those relating to the CID Act’s “fronting” exclusion, the “public ownership” requirement, and several of Petitioners’ constitutional arguments largely restate arguments already presented to the Court on the Petition for Judicial Review and prior motions.”
Lacking a reason to grant a re-hearing, the judge opted not to waste court and legal resources to re-examine what had just been examined. We now wait to see whether the HRCIDTA will pursue an appeal to the Idaho Supreme Court, which will in turn continue to delay development of CID-eligible amenities at Harris Ranch.
