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Clear Lake council agrees to explore annexing about 300 acres on Ogland/Oglund Canyon Road amid community concerns
Summary
Property owners asked the city to pursue annexation of roughly 300 acres outside city limits to enable industrial-mixed-use development. Council directed staff to pursue sphere-of-influence work and to investigate annexation steps but asked for careful study of CEQA, tax-sharing with the county and restrictions on future cannabis uses.
City staff and the property owners presented a request asking Clear Lake to initiate annexation of about 300 acres at 2050 and 2122 Ogland/Oglund Canyon Road so those parcels can be developed under city zoning.
City Manager Flora summarized the process the city would need to follow: the council would need to consider amending the city’s sphere of influence, pre-zone the parcels and provide a general-plan designation before LAFCO could act. Planning consultant Richard Noll, representing the owners, described early concepts for an industrial mixed-use plan and said some “nodes” of…
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