Memorandum
Date: June 21, 2022
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: a) Susan Parker, County Administrative Officer
b) Anita Grant, County Counsel
Subject: a) Consideration of request to waive fees for the appeal of the Planning Commission's decision for Major Use Permit UP 19-19 MOMBACHO MOUNTAIN ORGANICS, LLC (DAN WESTPHAL & KATHY MCGUIRE) located at 9205 Mombacho Road, Kelseyville, CA and 9261 Wildcat Road, Kelseyville, CA on June 2, 2022 due to hardship; and b) Consideration of policy regarding the consideration of requests for reduction or waiver of certain land use appeal filing fees
Executive Summary:
a) Joan Moss requests the fees be waived for her appeal application due to financial hardship and inability to pay the $1,136.30 filing fee.
For consideration today is only the waiving of the fees. If your Board decides to waive the fees I will send the application to the planning department and it will return before your Board as a Public Hearing.
Attached is Ms. Moss's Appeal Application which states her reasons for appeal.
b) An individual has presented a request for a waiver of the filing fee required by the County for the filing of an appeal of a land use decision to the Board of Supervisors. That request was presented to the County Administrative Office and to the Community Development Department and has been forwarded on for your Board's consideration at your regularly scheduled meeting on June 21, 2022.
When I was queried as to the existence of a County policy related to the reduction or waiver of such filing fees based upon extreme financial hardship, I discovered that the County has no formal policy.
Also, for your Board's June 21, 2022 meeting and in conjunction with the specific request referenced above, I have prepared for your review and consideration a draft policy which could be used uniformly to address such waiver/reduction requests. It is my understanding that while some counties make no provision for the...
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