{"id":106526,"date":"2016-02-24T20:09:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T03:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/district-judge-to-rule-on-rio-grande-case\/"},"modified":"2016-02-24T20:09:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T03:09:44","slug":"district-judge-to-rule-on-rio-grande-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/district-judge-to-rule-on-rio-grande-case\/","title":{"rendered":"District judge to rule on Rio Grande case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=af33ee9c-8697-4c59-89e7-cbf4b58fbed6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=af33ee9c-8697-4c59-89e7-cbf4b58fbed6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=af33ee9c-8697-4c59-89e7-cbf4b58fbed6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=af33ee9c-8697-4c59-89e7-cbf4b58fbed6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1339\" alt=\"The beer garden behind the Rio Grande Southern, photographed in 2012.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The beer garden behind the Rio Grande Southern, photographed in 2012.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now the matter is before a District Judge.<\/p>\n<p>On March 6, a notice of violations was issued by the town\u2019s building inspector and the hotel, located at 101 S. 5th St., was ordered closed until repairs could be made.<\/p>\n<p>Tenants were evicted, including owner Susie Sieber, with less than a day\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n<p>The town withdrew its closure order in April, and the hotel has since resumed business.<\/p>\n<p>But the town is standing behind its report of the hotel\u2019s unsafe building and electrical violations creating a hazard to the residents and public.<\/p>\n<p>A Board of Appeals unanimously agreed with the town\u2019s actions after an evidentiary hearing May 28.<\/p>\n<p>Sieber appealed the decision to district court, arguing the town abused its regulatory discretion and jurisdiction in issuing the violation notice and closing the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal will be ruled on by District Court Judge Todd Plewe. Briefs have been filed by both sides and are summarized here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>beer garden behind the Rio Grande Southern, photographed in 2012.The Journal Now the matter is before a District Judge. On March 6, a notice of violations was issued by the town\u2019s building inspector and the hotel, located at 101 S. 5th St., was ordered closed until repairs could be made. Tenants were evicted, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[44],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-106526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-dolores"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106526"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=106526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}