Memorandum
Date: February 27, 2024
To: The Honorable Bruno Sabatier, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Lars Ewing, Public Services Director
Subject: a) Consideration of Agreement for the Purchase of Real Property Located at 16540 State Highway 175 in Cobb; and b) Consideration of Resolution Accepting and Consenting to Recordation of a Grant Deed
Executive Summary: In February of last year, your Board granted conceptual approval for the purchase of 13-acre property in Cobb for a future community park, located at 16540 State Highway 175 at the intersection of Golf Road. Your Board also appointed a team to oversee negotiations, who since then have secured an appraisal, completed property inspections (which included an assessment of potential hazard trees), arranged with the property owner for the removal of abandoned vehicles, and established terms with the property owner for a purchase offer of $300,000.
Additionally, in June the Lake County Planning Commission determined the acquisition to be in conformity with the Lake County General Plan and categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. Furthermore, Public Services staff consulted with environmental representatives from both Middletown Rancheria and the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians about the project and worked with a landscape architecture firm to prepare a preliminary concept plan for potential park development.
Should your board approve the acquisition, Public Services staff will initiate a public outreach process to develop both an interim and long-term park use plan, continue consultation with both tribal nations, refine the concept design for future park use by the public, and perform appropriate environmental resource surveys/studies, all with the intent to progress to a public opening of the property.
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Recommended Action: a) Approve the Agreement for the Purchase of Real Property Located at 16540 Highway 175 in Cobb; and b) Approve the Resolution Accepting and Consenting to Recordation of a Grant Deed.