Nine Years Later, California Court Saga over $23,420 Housing Fee Remains Unsettled

Nine years later, California court saga over $23,420 housing fee remains unsettled

George Sheetz could never have imagined a routine housing fee would turn into a nine-year saga that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Nine years ago, in preparation for his retirement, engineer George Sheetz bought a plot of rural land in El Dorado County and applied for a county permit to place a manufactured home on his parcel. Little did he know that what he thought would be a routine administrative transaction would turn into a legal dispute that would wind its laborious way through California courts, reach the U.S. Supreme Court — where he won a unanimous ruling — and is …