MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – This week the Middletown Area Town Hall will get an update on a proposed resort development in the Guenoc Valley and plans going forward for Trailside Park.

MATH will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 11, at the Middletown Community Center, 21256 Washington St.

Meetings are open to the community, and offer the opportunity for additional public input on items not included on the agenda.

Lake County Community Development Director Bob Massarelli will discuss with the group the latest plans for a resort development in Guenoc Valley area of Middletown, which includes Langtry Farms.

Massarelli last month took a plan to the Board of Supervisors to hire additional planning staff to handle the permitting process for the project, which is just getting under way.

Randy Sternberg, a representative for the company that now owns the Guenoc Valley property, also will give the group an update.

On April 29, Yiming and Alex Xu, whose company Guenoc Valley Inc. purchased the property last year, presented a $1 million check to Hope City for the wildland fire rebuild effort, as Lake County News has reported.

In other business, Lake County Public Services Director Lars Ewing will discuss the plan for Trailside Park.

The 107-acre park was ravaged by the Valley fire, with nearly all of its trees burned and killed.

In March, a tree planting project led by the Lake Area Rotary Club Fire Relief Fund resulted in 4,000 ponderosa pine trees being planted on a 12-acre portion of the park, as Lake County News has reported.
 
Action items for Thursday include the adoption of MATH’s project list for the year.

Suggested projects include a Valley fire memorial, sign for the senior center, a water feature in Middletown Square Park, and arch at Middletown Square Park, painting curbs, Western Mine Road patrol, a solar plant in the senior center parking lot; crosswalks in Middletown that have push buttons to activate flashing lights; flashing lights for traffic calming at entrances to Middletown; and weed cleanup and landscaping in front of fire house on Highway 175.

MATH members on Thursday also are due to discuss setting up a Facebook page and approving concepts for a Valley fire memorial.

The MATH Board includes Chair Claude Brown, Vice Chair Linda Diehl-Darms, Secretary Fletcher Thornton, and members Lisa Kaplan and Gregg Van Oss.

MATH – established by resolution of the Lake County Board of Supervisors on Dec. 12, 2006 – is a municipal advisory council serving the residents of Anderson Springs, Cobb, Coyote Valley (including Hidden Valley Lake), Long Valley and Middletown.

Meetings are subject to videotaping.

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