The Ada County Highway District has been ordered to pay more than $1 million to the owner of Brooke View, a retirement community west of Curtis Road and south of Franklin Road, after the agency spent years fighting with the owner over damage to the community’s elaborate entrance wall from a road project; ACHD plans to appeal the district judge’s ruling.

The Brooke View dispute started in 2012 with an eminent domain case over the stretch of South Curtis Road, Idaho Statesman reporter Sven Berg reports. The district was improving the road and built a sidewalk in that area. Later, as construction progressed, Miller accused the district of damaging the community’s decorative wall at the entrance to the neighborhood. Both sides dug in. After almost three years of legal back-and-forth, a jury ended up awarding Brooke View $146,000 in compensation, but ACHD continued to fight the case. Attorney fees account for more than $744,000 of the $1.15 million award from Judge Cheri Copsey. Berg’s full story is online here; you can read the judge's ruling here.