Zoning vs. Eminent Domain: How Ventura County Shut Down The Pine Mountain Inn

Zoning vs. Eminent Domain: How Ventura County Shut Down The Pine Mountain Inn


In the northernmost reaches of California's Ventura County, a two-lane rural road called Highway 33 runs into the rugged and mostly undeveloped Transverse Mountain Range. Though it's mostly raw wilderness, a few businesses catering to adventurous explorers have long existed there, some for more than a century.