San Diego County is a party to one of the lawsuits. She said a couple of lawsuits are still pending at the state level and there is a federal lawsuit pending. “It appears to be a bit premature,” Jacob said Wednesday in reference to the construction going on at the Jamul Indian Village. The company, through its public relations representative, claims that all necessary governmental approvals have been granted. The tribe would own the facility, the Hollywood Casino Jamul-San Diego, located off Highway 94, which would have 1,700 slot machines, 43 table games, multiple food and beverage options and about 1,000 employees.Īlthough Jacob and other Jamul residents have long opposed the casino on grounds that it will create horrific traffic problems, invite crime and is not in character with Jamul’s rural environment, Penn National Gaming Inc., the company that would manage the casino and is fronting the money for construction, has already begun building the facility, saying it would open in mid-2016. Over the past several years, Jacob - who is gearing up to run for an unprecedented seventh term on the Board of Supervisors - has been trying to kill the construction of a $360 million casino by the small Jamul Indian Village. Today, Honey Springs Ranch is part of the Rancho Jamul Ecological Reserve, forever protected from development, and Dianne Jacob is battling another developer. That was 13 years before Jacob was first elected to the San Diego County Board of Supervisor (1992) - her victory no doubt influenced somewhat by the successful fight she and her neighbors’ launched to preserve the Honey Springs Ranch from development, a legal fight that went all the way to the California Supreme Court in 1984.

Jacob was in a flash mob in March protesting construction of the casino. Thirty-six years ago, Dianne Jacob was a private citizen leading a fight against a developer’s plans to turn the more than 2,000 acres of the pristine Honey Spring Ranch in Jamul into a development of luxury homes and commercial enterprises. The proposed Hollywood Casino Jamul-San Diego Dianne Jacob’s Fight Against Casino Resembles Honey Springs Ranch Battle 3 Decades Ago By Manny Cruz County Supervisor Dianne Jacob was a private citizen 36 years ago when she led a campaign against a massive development proposed for Jamul.

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