CLEARLAKE, Calif. – As part of the settlement reached with the Sierra Club Lake Group earlier this month, the Clearlake City Council will consider rescinding the disposition and development agreement and mitigated negative declaration it passed at the beginning of 2010 in support of a regional shopping center plan.

The council will meet in open session beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 26, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.

A closed session will be held starting at 5 p.m. to discuss the appointment of a new city administrator, and property negotiations regarding 13981 Morgan Ave. and 14295 Lakeshore Drive.

On May 12, following a closed session, the council emerged to announce a settlement agreement with the Sierra Club Lake Group, which last year had sued both the city and KK Raphel Properties LLC of Roseville over the plans for the shopping center at the now closed Pearce Field airport property on Highway 53.

In its suit, the Sierra Club Lake Group had sought the completion of an environmental impact report on the proposal. The council had instead accepted a mitigated negative declaration.

As part of the settlement, the council must rescind the disposition and development agreement with KK Raphel Properties that it passed on Feb. 25, 2010. It also must rescind the mitigated negative declaration, passed on the same date, according to the staff report for the Thursday meeting.

Interim City Administrator Steve Albright told Lake County News that as soon as the city takes all of the required actions to fulfill the agreement, and once the Sierra Club subsequently accepts the document, it will be made public.

Albright also will take to the council a proposed 2010-11 redevelopment agency budget.

He told the council at its May 12 meeting that no redevelopment agency budget for the current fiscal year had yet been passed, but that a resolution had been passed to extend the previous fiscal year's budget.

“That' really not the right thing to do,” he told the council at that time.

In other action, the council will continue a public hearing on a proposed medical marijuana dispensaries ordinance and hold another public hearing to consider an appeal of the Clearlake Planning Commission's decision to deny a variance to Rebecca Whitmire at 14708 Palmer Ave.

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052611 Clearlake City Council Meeting Staff Reports