Prosecutor Update on three appeals: Critical Area Appeals Are Over; Durland Loses Dispute with Neighbor; Hearing Set on Deadline for Challenging Building Fee Common Sense Alliance v. San Juan County - The legal challenge to the 2012 critical areas ordinance has ended! The effort to overturn the County's Critical Area regulations concluded on Monday Oct. 3, 2016 when the United States Supreme Court denied the request of Common Sense Alliance to hear its appeal.