Court ends plans to build hundreds of houses on private land adjacent to Great Smoky Mountains NP

Dave Harmon, PW editor
Apr 16, 2019
1 min read

A lawsuit that dragged on for nearly a decade has finally ended in defeat for landowners who sought to build hundreds of houses on Cove Mountain in Sevier County.

High Bridge Partnership – which included Ron and Betty Ogle, Jerry Kerley, Mark T. White and John C. Schubert – filed suit Dec. 7, 2009, against Sevier County and the Sevier County Regional Planning Commission.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/money/business/2019/04/15/sevier-county-wins-cove-mountain-lawsuit/3451100002/

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