Nicasio residents fight George Lucas over unsightly vineyard near Skywalker Ranch

Known to be the imaginative architect of some of cinema’s most exquisite far-off galaxies, filmmaker George Lucas and Skywalker Properties may have to start from scratch on a new visual project — one that the Nicasio Land Owners Association seems to think is pretty unsightly.

Earlier in June, Marin County approved Skywalker’s application for a permit to build a vineyard at 3838 Lucas Valley Road, just over three miles away from the secluded Skywalker Ranch. But according to the Marin Independent Journal, the Nicasio Land Owners Association has challenged that decision, requesting the vineyard to be moved to another location on the property so it can’t be seen from the street.

“It’s primarily an aesthetic thing but there are some other underlying issues,” Stephen Lewis, the association’s vice president, told the Journal. “The concern is the significance of where the vineyard is and what it is like now as opposed to what it was like before: open space with oak trees and wildland grasses.”