LAKEPORT – What should be done with two blighted motel properties on the lakeshore in Lucerne? That's a question the Board of Supervisors will discuss at its Tuesday meeting.

The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. at the board chambers at the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport. TV 8 usually broadcasts the meetings live but the service has been irregular in recent weeks.

District 3 Supervisor Denise Rushing is asking the board to take up the matter of the Lake Sands Resort, located at 6335 E. Highway 20, and the Lucerne Motel, 6339 E. Highway 20, both of which belong to developer Dominic Affinito of Fort Bragg. The matter is scheduled to be heard at 9:30 a.m.

In June 2007, the board ordered Affinito to abate the two blighted properties, which have been part of a long-running abatement case stretching back to March 2004.

Since then, Affinito has evicted the renters who had lived at the two motels and boarded up the buildings, which he has stated he plans to demolish in order to build a new hotel facility on the Lake Sands site. He reportedly is due to apply for an extension to keep the buildings boarded up for another six months, according to Code Enforcement.

This past August, the board decided to abate an Affinito property on Hammond Avenue in Nice, where grading had left a large cut that was causing erosion. They voted to repair the grading work at the site which Affinito had proposed to develop and charge him for the work.

In October 2007, the board decided against giving Affinito an extension to his tentative subdivision map for that same property, which means he must start the application process over if he's to build a subdivision project there.

In other planned business for Tuesday, at 11 a.m. the board will receive an update on mobile home park owner responses to the proposed rent stability lease agreement. Supervisors also will discuss enacting the agreement in mobile home parks in the county's unincorporated areas.

Community Development Director Rick Coel, in an untimed item, will ask the board to waive the consultant planning division selection policy and contract with Melissa Floyd to act as the county's geothermal coordinator. The proposed contract with Floyd is not to exceed $60,000; it's recommended that the funds be reimbursed through geothermal royalty revenues.

The Tuesday agenda also includes the following items.

Timed:

9:15 a.m.: Annual meeting of the Lake County Redevelopment Agency and Redevelopment Agency presentation of the agency’s annual report for fiscal year 2007-08 (Northshore Project Area).

10 a.m.: Consideration of various recommended actions to provide an economic stimulus to local businesses and the local economy, including a proposed ordinance amending the county purchasing ordinance to increase the current local vendor preference allowances.

10:30 a.m.: Presentation regarding the State Water Resources Control Board proposed amendments establishing statewide regulations for onsite wastewater treatment systems (septic systems), and

an overview of the impact these regulations would have on the county’s local septic permit program.

Untimed items:

– Consideration of approval of findings of fact and deny the appeal of the Sierra Club Lake Group of the Eachus View Estates Parcel Map and rezone approved by the Planning Commission.

The board also will hold a closed session to discuss labor negotiations and conduct a performance evaluation of the county's information technology director.

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