Memorandum
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Item #6
9:30 a.m.
July 14, 2022
STAFF REPORT
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Mary Darby, Community Development Director
Eric Porter, Associate Planner
DATE: July 14, 2022
RE: Point Lakeview Mine, Clearlake Lava Extension - Extension of Use Permit (UPM 20-01) of Use Permit (UP 00-06) and a Categorical Exemption to CEQA (CE 22-47)
Supervisor Districts 1 and 5
ATTACHMENTS: 1. Vicinity Map
2. Submitted Material and Applicable Correspondence
3. Original Conditions of Approval for UP 00-06
4. Revised Conditions UPM 20-01
5. Agency Comments
I. BACKGROUND
The following events occurred leading to this request for a mine extension:
* 1989 - Use Permit UP 89-09 was approved by Lake County for a new mine, called the Point Lakeview mine.
* February 8, 2000 - Use Permit 00-06 was submitted to Lake County for a mine extension.
* The extension was approved in summer 2000 through UP 00-06 and was appealed. The Board of Supervisors denied the appeal, thereby validating the year 2000 use permit, and the mine was extended to April 2021 based on the appeal hearing date.
* February 3, 2020 - UPM 20-01 was submitted to the County.
* June 30, 2021 - Owner Don Van Pelt sent a letter to Tracy Cline specifying the events that had occurred regarding the mine extension. Mr. Van Pelt asserts that because an appeal was denied by the Board of Supervisors in April 2001, the use permit extension from year 2000 was valid until April 2021. Director Darby accepted this date as the official start date of the 2000 extension, and the use permit is valid until April 17, 2021.
* The extension application was filed prior to April 17, 2021, the expiration date for the mine use permit.
* A Notice of Exemption (NOE) was prepared and posted with the County Clerk's office. This notice how...
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