Corr. just 1.24 or 1.25 AC. (I’ve seen differing reports.) Read some more stories on the internet to refresh my memory. Brown was exceptionally smart and successful, but obviously was not used to dealing with the parochial-type mentality of the community, compared to the Bay area where she was from. Comm. groups formed for the purpose of distributing petitions against her DID sue her over an early supposed 41-bed “proposed” plan, but later dropped the case (other rpts. say she won or it was dismissed). Can’t tell which b/c there is no online register of actions for a case that old.
All the “signature-gathering” by the comm. group did no good as Brown didn’t violate any laws.
Can’t tell if a bus. permit was issued and then reneged on – differing accounts.
The neighbor-angst ultimately drove away her venture capital and Deepak Chopra, who was to run it as “Casa Simpatico.” When she later tried to rent her six token rooms by herself that she was allowed to without the business permit, she couldn’t make ends meet with the mortgage. Nevertheless she maintained the property until she left last year `even programming the rose garden to water itself, with a computer program she invented.’ Fascinating stories . . .
Even City of Enc. is quoted as saying the structure was built exactly as they themselves approved it.
It appears she put much more than $2M of her own cash into it. I still feel a little sorry for her.
