Mediation has brought resolution to a legal dispute over the installation of a modular home at Cocolalla Estates.
Ben and Julie Silverman and Redlands Financial Group agreed to pay $15,000 to the property owners’ association, which will invest the money into new docks on the lake and other capital improvements. In exchange, the system-built home can stay put — as long as other landowners who were not party to the lawsuit also agree to the settlement.

The settlement was finalized on May 25, according to documents filed in 1st District Court. The Silvermans and Redlands have until July 15 to get the other landowners on board.

More than two-dozen landowners in the subdivision filed suit against the Silvermans and Redlands last year, contending the 2,000-square-foot home was contrary to Cocolalla Estates’ covenants, conditions and restrictions, which forbid structures built off-site from being placed in the subdivision.

Homeowners said the home undermined the integrity of the CC&Rs and called for the home’s removal. The Silvermans countered that they were told the homeowners association had disbanded and obtained verbal approval for the home from some of the landowners in the subdivision. They also unsuccessfully attempted to have the 1968 CC&Rs amended to account for new home-building techniques.

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