DeanGetz, 4935 Hillsdale Circle, El Dorado Hills, CA (2026)

05/20/2026

🚨 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐀𝐗𝐏𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐁𝐔𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐂𝐄: 𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐎 𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐉 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐊 🚨

Why I Just Appealed the Serrano M5 Map...

Last week, the County Planning Commission approved a map for 10 new lots in Serrano (Village M5). But there is a massive, multi-million-dollar elephant in the room: Taxpayers are being forced to pay for a community park we already bought. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐞:

1. We Already Paid Once (The Missing Park & Money): Decades ago, the developer was legally obligated to build a fully funded, "turnkey" community park in exchange for the right to build homes. They were allowed to keep millions in impact fee credits to get this done. They kept the credits, but they never built the park.

2. Now They Want Us to Pay Again (The $7+ Million Bailout): Instead of forcing the developer to finish the job with the fee credits they retained, the County and CSD signed a backdoor deal in 2020 to accept a piece of empty dirt instead. According to the government's own financial studies, this leaves local taxpayers on the hook for a $7+ million shortfall to actually construct the park.
We cannot keep approving new subdivisions while taxpayers are forced to subsidize a corporate developer's broken promises and buy the exact same park twice.

Today, I filed an official administrative appeal to the Board of Supervisors to freeze the Village M5 map. Our (my) demand is simple: The County must assign an independent auditor to track down the retained fee credits and claw back the original money for our park before a single new lot is approved.

The Board of Supervisors will have to hold a public hearing and vote on this soon. I will post the date here once it’s scheduled. We need to pack the room and demand accountability.

As always, stay tuned...

Posted 5.20.2026

04/30/2026

⚡𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐙 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐋—𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍 (𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐄’𝐒 𝐇𝐔𝐆𝐄) ⚡

I've repeatedly stated that the Serrano mis-assessment scheme is, was, and always has been a fraud. Specifically, undeveloped property in Serrano was deliberately not assessed, as evidenced by the concealment of hundreds of undeveloped lots annexed in back in 2013.

For the second time, I’ve successfully gotten the Court of Appeal to unanimously overturn a deeply flawed ruling out of El Dorado County!

Let’s get into it—because this is as outrageous as it is revealing.

The Serrano El Dorado HOA has burned through over $3 million in insurance-funded legal fees—not to protect homeowners, but to fight against them. Why? To shield the developer, Serrano Associates, from paying their fair share.

For years, the HOA allowed the developer to dodge assessments on undeveloped land. To make up the shortfall, they illegally overcharged homeowners, ignoring a strict cap written into the CC&Rs.

When I challenged it, the (El Dorado County) trial court dismissed my case. The judge (McLaughlin) even called my interpretation “an absurd parsing of the words,” ruling that once homeowners could cover the costs, the developer was permanently off the hook.
That ruling didn’t hold up.

The appellate court stepped in—and dismantled it.

Here’s what they found:

𝟏. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫

The court made it clear: as long as undeveloped property exists, the developer must cover budget shortfalls. Homeowner assessments are capped by CPI. No exceptions.

𝟐. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 “𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞” 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝

The developer and the HOA argued this had been going on for years, so it was too late to sue. The court rejected that argument, applying the continuous accrual doctrine (currently reaching back to 2013 to date)—meaning every year's improper overcharge is a new violation.

Let that sink in: millions spent fighting homeowners, all to protect a developer from paying what they owe.

And they lost.

The case now goes back to trial court—but this time, the rules are clear. The fight over what the CC&Rs mean is over. Now it’s about how much they violated them. Stay tuned—this next phase could be very big.

Accountability is coming.

Posted 4.30.2026

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