CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Clearlake City Council will hold a special meeting to discuss extending until next fall the temporary moratorium on building and major renovations on a portion of Lakeshore Drive.
The meeting will take place beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.
During the summer, the council – at the suggestion of city staff – passed a temporary moratorium on new construction and significant renovation projects on Lakeshore Drive between Old Highway 53 and Olympic Drive while the city worked on design guidelines for the Lakeshore Drive corridor.
City Manager Joan Phillipe's report to the council for Tuesday's meeting said the urgency ordinance was meant “to protect the city from uses that conflict with the vision of the corridor and to provide for design guidelines for use in processing planning and/or building permit applications.”
The council at its Nov. 14 meeting chose to direct staff to take the recommendations back to the Clearlake Planning Commission for further work, and on Nov. 21 held a special meeting to receive a report on the moratorium that Phillipe said was a required step before extending it.
Phillipe is asking the council to consider extending the moratorium – which expires on Dec. 8 – for 10 months and 15 days.
“Due to the guidelines being sent back to the Commission for further work, there is a need to extend the moratorium,” Phillipe wrote in her report to the council. “Staff does not believe that the full 10 months and 15 days is needed to complete this task.”
She said once guidelines are adopted, the moratorium can be lifted before it expires on Oct. 23, 2014.
Phillipe anticipates a minimal financial impact to the city if the council extends the moratorium.
“The city has not received any planning application for major projects or requests for building permits for currently permitted uses or major remodels of existing buildings,” Phillipe reported.
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