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It'?s the Canyon Code: County Rules are another thing.

It' not exactly a battle from The Wild One, but a protracted quarrel with Orange Country supervisors has got the Cook`s Corner Bars proprietor - a pit that irrigates both cannyon ists and motorbike fans - to offer the legendary store for purchase. Whilst the quarrel seems to be a straightforward difference of opinion between a real estate developer and the earldom, it mirrors the ongoing discussion about the type of cannyon developments that are taking place following a tough approach to dealing with a rogue grading project.

It also emphasizes the clash between the time-honored Canon Ethic of Independence - if you need something solid, fix it - and the ways of the contemporary realm, where something as easy as maneuvering a drain will require approvals, blueprints, expensive on-site inspection and comitee scrutiny. "â??This edifice has been here since 1946, and they write me down for material set up when the edifice was put here," said Cook's Corner proprietor Frank de Luna, who purchased the stake and 12 surrounding acres for $1. 3 million in 1988 and now faces a medical condition ranging from an illicit tap to improper open-air eating.

" Irrespective of whether it' juridical or illicit, the pub is definitely there, a paradise for whimsical individuals who refuse the insidious homogenisation of the suburbs. Situated in a shire where extensive urbanisation has destroyed the small ranched cities and estates that have shaped recent histories in the remainder of the land, Cook's Corner represents the past, a memory of the past.

One feels it most when one leaves the gorges and drives out of the gorges to Mission Viejo. While many Orange Country restaurateurs - in possession of a necklace - provide meals for the crowds, Cook's Menü is set up with synthetic characters on a felt shelf that hangs over the open fire. A Foothill Ranch frequent guest, Dave Katanich, 40, who showed up for last week's macabre, said he was indignant at the county's claims that eating outdoors at Cook's Corner was a breach.

Orange County Directeur of Planning and Development, Tom Mathews, refused to make a statement, and described the controversy as a "code enforcing action" that is still being enforced through the lawsuits. Some of the disputes focus on the work De Luna did during the El Nino storm 18 month ago, which sent streams of debris and sludge across the slopes of the riverbanks.

The Luna also flattened an area behind the pub to make it easier to park. Last weekend De Luna demanded that the cutting of the trench be done legally in accordance with the regulations of the law on graduation and that he not need a permission for the car park work. However, in February he pleaded guilty to injuries, said Byron Nelson, an orange Bezirksassistent allocated to the Codes Execution cases.

Mr De Luna also argued culpably 4 August about construction regulation breaches, which range from incorrect cabling to the inappropriate use of a ship box as storeroom, Nelson said. And De Luna said his bill and fine exceeded $30,000. Instead of proceeding to conflict or comply with county orders, he said he plans to sale the staff and the 12 acre grounds, asking for $2. 7 million.

Under the 1991 Foothill Trabuco Specific Plans, which severely restricted space use, only a quarter of the country is built-up. Trabuco Oaks in Trabuco Canyon, Steve Nordeck, a member of the Design Committee when the scheme was approved and owners of the steakhouse Trabuco Oaks, said he had doubts that De Luna would actually be selling.

While sympathizing with his compatriot, Nordeck said De Luna had excavated his own problems. "When I want to grade something and append or remove something, I have to go to the earldom and get the permission.