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Lucerne motels, rent stability lease agreement on board agenda PDF Print E-mail
Written by Elizabeth Larson   
Monday, 01 December 2008
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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Redevelopment has
written by Donna Christopher, December 01, 2008
eminent domain powers regarding commercial properties in the area of redevelopment. Use it or remove it from the redevelopment plan - it's like having hand gun and being to afraid to fire it. If you approach this town from the east and you lay eyes on these two festering sores you're gonna cover your childrens eyes and keep moving. Tear them down or fix them up. There are two developers holding this town hostage and at this stage it doesn't look like anyone is making it out fiscally alive.
I second that motion...
written by lenny, December 01, 2008
abuse or foolish judgement
written by max, December 01, 2008
those places looked better with the poorer element (now where living?)and he was fixing everything that needed correction with the rents while he waited for the development. The action taken was to make a show by CE? so he evicted the people that needed the low rent and complied, Just how much special attention has he recd due to pressure of the "someone" attempting to buy the property at a low price

How about the other eyesores maybe not on the main drag but definately to the neighbors, Including burnt bldgs.

Just once I would like to see long term decisions and a plan of what next. Maybe there should be some accountability for the number and show game.
Where should those
written by OneFamily, December 01, 2008
fees come from, The Geothermal owmers themselves. They are the ones who have caused Ms Fulton to be hired, therefore they should pay into a special fund set aside just for this action.; No fees, be it salary or otherwise, should come from the Geothermal Royalties. (That is what they pay us for having their plants, and money in their pockets.) They are the ones who have necessatated the hiring, let them and them alone pay.
As for the Lucerne properties, why do I always see cars parked in that little alley way and folks go in and out of the buildings?
One Family, are you perhaps
written by Donna Christopher, December 01, 2008
thinking of the Lakeview Motel at the other end of town, down by 1st Ave? Have heard an earful from the folks that live in that hood - there are many monthly rentals there and that should not be, your either a TOT paying facility or a rental enterprise. They are supposed to be a motel. There should be no one at the Lake Sands but apparently Affinito has been allowed a "caretaker" to live at the Lucerne Motel. He does a grand job, eh :wink:
Vermin & (Affinito)
written by dexterdog6481, December 02, 2008
It is clear to me and anyone living near the Lake Sands, Lucerne Hotel and The Beachcomber that the Beachcomber is the only true business in the entire area. It has fallen into a bit of dis-repair, but being unfairly located next to Dom's slums depresses even the finest of properties. :evil: Affinito has been allowed to turn once viable properties into rat infested slums. The Lucerne motel used to be called The Cal Ohio Resort back in the daay and was spic n' span and had it's own coffee shop. The Sands was a beautiful and vibrant resort only 15 years ago.
It is time for the Board to act and rewrite a workable abatement ordinance and use it to run Affinito out of town.

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