The proposed Provinsalia development will be the topic of a public hearing hosted by the Clearlake City Council on Feb. 12.

CLEARLAKE – The proposed Provinsalia development will be the subject of a public hearing at the Clearlake City Council this week.

The hearing will be held during the council's regularly scheduled meeting, which begins at 6 p.m. at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.

Lake County Resort Partners Inc., headed by Mexican businessman Jorge Rangel de Alba, proposes to build Provinsalia on 292 acres stretching across three parcels at 17012, 17055 and 17065 Dam Road.

Dick Price, who represents Lake County Resort Partners Inc., told Lake County News he will attend the Thursday public hearing.

The project's scope includes 565 single family homes, 100 condominiums, a nine-hole golf course and open space.

Price told Lake County News in an interview late last year that Provinsalia would be completed in 10 phases. Lake County Resort Partners proposes to sell the phases to national-level builders who would in turn do the building.

Last April, Price made a presentation to both the commission and the council on Provinsalia, and city leaders – as well as community members – were able to ask questions, as Lake County News has reported.

Several months of work by city staff and consultants followed on the proposed final EIR. That led up to two public hearings in December before the Clearlake Planning Commission.

On Dec. 16, the commission voted unanimously to recommend that the council take several actions with respect to the project.

Those actions, which the council will consider during the course of the upcoming public hearing, include certifying Provinsalia's draft and final environmental impact report (EIR), amending the general plan land use designation from managed development-resource protection area to specific plan, adopting the draft Provinsalia specific plan and rezoning the property from resource protection to specific plan.

The council also will authorize City Administrator Dale Neiman to execute the subdivision construction agreement for the Clearlake Crossings subdivision, located at the intersection of Highway 53 and Old Highway 53.

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