The board meeting starts at 9 a.m. at the Lake County Courthouse in Lakeport, and will be broadcast live on Channel 8.
In July, the board adopted a temporary moratorium on new wireless communications facilities. The 45-day moratorium was meant to give the county time to amend its zoning ordinance in response to concerns by community members regarding the facilities' possible impacts on public health and safety.
Upper Lake resident Cheryl Little Deer's appeal of a Planning Commission decision giving the OK to a new Edge Wireless tower near Upper Lake gave rise to the moratorium, as Lake County News previously reported.
The temporary ban was approved July 24, the same day as the supervisors approved a finding of fact that denied Little Deer's appeal and allowed the Edge Wireless tower project to move forward.
With the 45 days close to an end, County Counsel Anita Grant is bringing the matter back to the supervisors, who will consider whether the urgency ordinance should be extended.
Also under untimed items, Supervisor Denise Rushing is asking fellow board members to consider a resolution approving participation in the Sierra Club's Cool Counties Climate Stabilization Declaration.
The effort kicked off in July, and follows up on a successful “Cool Cities” effort that has so far been joined by 665 cities nationwide, 101 of them in California.
Participants in both the city and county versions of the “cool” effort pledge to take on climate protection through green building, energy efficiency projects, use of renewable energy and more.
Examples of “cool cities”: The city of Warwick, Rhode Island, replaced traffic lights and crosswalk signals to reduce carbon emissions by 1,200 tons. In Evanston, Ill., the city added wind farms to its power grid to meet its resolution to use 20 percent renewable energy.
North Coast cities that have signed on to the effort include Cloverdale, Healdsburg, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Sonoma and Arcata.
By joining the Cool Counties program, Lake would pledge to reduce global warming emissions by 80 percent by 2050, which amounts to a 2-percent reduction annually.
One of the ways the county could achieve that is by “greening” its fleet. The Sierra Club reports that it will shortly unveil a tool to show fleet managers the benefits of using hybrid vehicles – including reduced emissions and lower fuel bills.
If Lake joins the Cool Counties program, it would be among the first counties nationwide to do so, joining Alameda; Arlington County, Va.,; Cook County, Ill.; Dane County, Wis.; Hennepin County, Minn.; Miami-Dade County, Fla.; Montgomery County, Md.; and Queen Anne's County, Md.
Other topics for the board to consider:
Timed items
9:15 a.m. – Status report and update on Code Compliance Division activities; and options to establish the enforcement fee/cost recovery program.
10 a.m. – Supervisor Anthony Farrington is bringing to the board a discussion on the merits of implementing Propositions 60 and 90, which allow people aged 55 and over to transfer a property's tax base value or rate from an existing residence to a replacement residence; intracounty transfers are covered by Proposition 60, while intercounty transfers apply under Proposition 90.
10:30 a.m. – Consider a request from the Anderson Springs Geothermal Impact Mitigation Fund Committee to construct an arch at the entrance of the community of Anderson Springs.
Untimed items
– Three different proposed ordinances or resolutions from Public Works regarding post construction requirements for new development and significant redevelopment of storm water management facilities.
– A proposed amendment to the rental agreement between the county's Mental Health Department and Terry Sochet for property located at 14141 Lakeshore Blvd., Clearlake.
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