COUNTY OF LAKE - File #: 22-767

• File #: 22-767
• Version: 1
• Type: Action Item
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 7/18/2022
• In control: Planning Commission
• On agenda: 7/28/2022
• Title: 9:15 a.m. Public Hearing on Consideration of a General Plan Conformity GPC 22-03, and adoption of CEQA Exemption CE 22-17, for the determination of whether the vacation of Forest Lake Drive is in conformity with the Lake County General Plan. The applicant and property owner is DAVID WIGNALL has requested the Department of Public Works (DPW) to vacate a portion of Forest Lake Drive, which is approximately 0.27 miles in length and intersects State Highway 175 and Brookside Drive. However, before the DPW can recommend the vacation, California Streets and Highways Code, Section 8320, et seq. requires the Planning Commission first determine whether the road vacation conforms to the Lake County General Plan. The proposed project is located at 16671 Forest Lake Drive, Cobb, CA 95426 (primary address) and APN 013-056-13.
• Sponsors: Community Development

Memorandum

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Item #3
9:15 AM
July 28, 2022
STAFF REPORT

TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Mary Darby, Community Development Director
Laura Hall, Senior Planner
DATE: July 28, 2022
RE: Forest Lake Drive Vacation, General Plan Conformity (GPC 22-03) CEQA Exemption (CE 22-17)

Supervisor District 1, Jessica Pyska

ATTACHMENTS: 1. Vicinity Map
2. Exhibit B: Right of Way Vacation Map; Hawkins Surveying, Offer of Right of Way, and 20' Wide Access Easement
3. Caltrans Encroachment Permit
4. Agency Comments
5. Public Comments

I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Applicant David Wignall is requesting to vacate a portion of Forest Lake Drive which is located in Cobb, California (Attachment 1). The portion of Forest Lake Drive to be vacated is approximately 0.27 miles in length and intersects State Highway 175 to the north and Brookside Drive to the southeast (Figure 1 and Attachment 2). The applicant owns all parcels along the portion of Forest Lake Drive to be vacated, including the primary parcel APN 013-056-13, and 013-056-11, 013-056-09, and 013-056-08. Government Code Section 65402(a) and Streets and Highways Code Section 8320 require that prior to a street vacation, the Lake County Planning Commission must first consider whether or not the location, purpose, and extent of the potential vacation conforms to the Lake County General Plan. If the conformity determination is approved by the Planning Commission, the Lake County Public Works Department (PWD) would then be required to take the road vacation before the Lake County Board of Supervisors in a public hearing for approval.

II. RECOMMENDATIONS

The Planning Commission, after reviewing the agenda report and receiving evidence at the public meeting, finds that the location, purpose, and extent of the proposed vacation of the property, located on 16671, 16645, 16761, and 16795 Forest Lake Drive, in Cobb, California is in conformance with the County of Lake General Plan pursu...