Spanos thwarted near Sacramento

In December of 2014, Spanos Corporation, part of Stockton's A.G. Spanos Companies and headed by Chargers honcho Dean Spanos, announced that it would go ahead with a 250-unit luxury apartment project in El Dorado Hills, an unincorporated area 22 miles east of Sacramento.

But last month, a year later, a superior court judge said the project was significantly different from earlier proposals and will require an environmental impact report.

A group called Citizens for Sensible Development in El Dorado Hills had brought suit against the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors, which had approved the project by a 4 to 1 vote, according to the Sacramento Business Journal.The Spanos entity was a real party in interest in the suit.

The plaintiffs disapproved of the project's high density. A Spanos vice president said, "The judge simply got it wrong."