Guide Inlet Timeline
1970: Beginning of cleanup/ownership disputes.
1993: Guide bids for property (rejected, 1995).
1995: Osbornes buy property, Purple Stork, for $7.7 million;
- Guide declares intent of taking by eminent domain.
1996: Guide begins eminent domain proceedings;
- Purple Stork tries to negotiate with Guide;
- Purple Stork sues against eminent domain;
- Residents petition for a vote; Guide halts proceedings;
- Residents vote to pursue eminent domain;
- Guide restarts eminent domain proceedings.
1997: Court estimates compensation to Osbornes;
- Osbornes settle tentatively: $8.5 million+$500,000 property;
- Possible new court proceedings around eminent domain.