Contra Costa County sued over controversial open-space housing plan
Contra Costa County was hit by two lawsuits Thursday, a month after the Board of Supervisors approved a boundary change to allow construction of 125 homes in protected open space near Danville. In a controversial decision on July 13, the supervisors voted 4-1 to stretch the urban limit line east of Blackhawk so developers could build the homes on 30 acres in the Tassajara Valley. … [East Bay MUD] has maintained for years that it doesn’t have enough water to supply the homes…