A group of Pine Creek residents who contributed to lawsuits opposing an affordable housing complex to be built nearby are being sued by the developer for “malicious prosecution.”
DBG Properties, the New Mexico-based developers for the proposed Royal Pines Apartments, filed a suit in the District Court of Colorado earlier this month against Preserve Pine Creek Village and five individual residents, including Pine Creek Village Association Board President Steve Parrish.
In the lawsuit, DBG argued that the neighbors had spent two years engaging in lawsuits against the city of Colorado Springs and the developer they did not expect to win to delay and undermine funding for affordable housing that would be built nearby. The lawsuit claimed the lawsuits not only were interfering with the company’s financial security but also were an abuse of the legal process…