McShane v. Stirling Ranch Property Owners Association, Inc

¶1 Petitioners Mac McShane and Cynthia Calvin had once hoped to build a multistory home overlooking the Roaring Pork Valley near Carbondale. After belatedly discovering their design for that home exceeded Garfield County height regulations, however, they ended up with something less: a one-story home and an attached “pod.” Making the required changes proved costly.

¶2 Today, we decide whether McShane and Calvin can seek to assign any of those costs to the Stirling Ranch Property Owners Association (“POA”), which they allege improperly approved the faulty architectural plans and then later…