Power Struggle: A Legal Victory

They shut off my electricity without notice. So I shut down their entire approval

process.I live alone on 7 wooded acres near a county development zone. My house isn’t fancy,

but it’s fully permitted and powered by a private line running across neighboring land through a recorded

utility easement from 1989. That line served my home for over 30 years.Then StonePeak

Communities arrived. They bought the adjacent land and started clearing trees.

One afternoon, their supervisor, Elaine, stopped by and said they might need

to “temporarily interrupt” my power during construction. I told her temporary wasn’t acceptable.

She smiled and said it wouldn’t be fine. Two weeks later, I came home to darkness.No lights.