Memorandum
Date: February 4, 2020
To: The Honorable Moke Simon, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Andrew Williams, Code Enforcement Manager
David Casian, Chief Building Official/Fire Marshal
Michalyn DelValle, Community Development Director
Subject: Report of Chapter 13-Hazardous Vegetation 2019 Overview and Recommendations
Executive Summary:
The Hazardous Vegetation Ordinance passed on March 19, 2019 and went into effect on April 25, 2019. We began inspections on May 6, 2019 with two teams of four inspectors in the Kelseyville Riviera and moved through the County: Riviera West, Riviera Heights and Buckingham next to Soda Bay, followed by Middletown, Anderson Springs, Cobb and Loch Lomond. We then moved to Spring Valley, Lake Pillsbury, and so on for a total inspection count of approximately 2,000 sites. For every non-compliant inspection in the field, inspectors spent approximately 30 minutes in the office researching property owner's address, filling out paper work, mailings, and starting cases in the database; as well as not neglecting our other responsibilities of non-permitted cannabis grows, open and outdoor storage, health and safety, and so on.
Most property owners of improved properties were working on hazardous vegetation and were in voluntary compliance. A large number did not understand the new ordinance and how to become compliant but after some education, compliance was accomplished.
Cal Fire only inspects improved properties on a three year rotation. HOA's inspect improved and unimproved properties. This year the County of Lake will be participating in a beta test with Cal Fire's computer-based inspection reporting software for improved properties, whereas County of Lake Inspectors take a specific area and do the inspections and Cal Fire will take other areas with no overlap. The areas are still to be determined. After two non-compliant inspections of a property the other agency would do the third inspection with abatem...
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