The council did not respond when asked to comment on Fugate's statement. In her February 2020 decision, Rodgers ruled that the council acted appropriately and rationally in rejecting the marina’s expansion in Great Salt Pond in 2011, and again in 2013 when it was forced to revisit the proposal amid allegations that it had treated Champlin’s unfairly. “Champlin’s rights have not been prejudiced by any constitutional violations, error of law, or arbitrary or capricious conduct on the part of CRMC,” Rodgers wrote. At the time, opponents of the hotly disputed project celebrated the decision as the end to a saga that by then had dragged on for 17 years and involved questions about navigational safety, use of public trust waters for private enterprise and environmental harm from expanded development.