Muller Lane Parkway looking north toward Toler Lane and Ashland Park.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
A trial in the lawsuit between the owners of Ashland Park and Douglas County over a section of Muller Parkway has been delayed until December.
Attorneys for the county and the owners of the property participated in a hearing on Wednesday and the trial, which had been set for May, was delayed.
Douglas County is required under a development agreement to build the Parkway across Park Ranch Holdings land by the end of the year.
On Thursday, County Manager Jenifer Davidson said the lawsuit won’’t delay construction of the parkway.
However, she said, the county is waiting for approval from the Federal Emergency Management Administration, which might be a bigger issue given the current political climate.
Ashland Park is owned by a separate company and is wrangling with the county over drainage issues along the project’s eastern border.
The 190-unit subdivision next door to Chichester Estates is home to the leg of Muller Parkway directly north of Toler Lane.
The Parkway continues north past Buckeye to eventually pass north of Winhaven and connect to the section that has been built east of Highway 395.
A 2019 development agreement between the Park family and the county approved 2,500 units in exchange for the right-of-way to build the Parkway.
The agreement was controversial and prompted a petition seeking to overturn it. The receiving area density on the property located north of Minden was transferred from the Sleeping Elephant Ranch in Topaz Ranch Estates.
A site improvement plan for the segment of the Parkway between Grant Avenue and Toler Lane has been approved as part of the Virginia Ranch development near the Gardnerville Walmart.
However, there are questions about whether the death of owner Stan Lucas will affect progress on the project. According to his obituary, Lucas died on Jan. 11 in Venice, Calif.