Inside Valleys Edge applicant opponents discuss issues

CHICO — Bill Brouhard loves the expansive property of Valley’s Edge. Often, he’s the only one there. Periodically, such as last Friday, the occupancy doubles when he takes a visitor on a tour. Two people on 1,448 acres. Even with the aid of an off-road vehicle, it takes the better part of three hours to see it all: mesas, meadows, rock formations, rock walls, valley oaks, seasonal streams, grazing cattle … all radiating east from the Steve Harrison Memorial Bike Trail that separates Valley’s Edge from the Stonegate development along Bruce Road. Stonegate stirred controversy — and litigation — when…