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Clear Lake council denies Koi Nation appeal but adds tribal coordination to mitigation
Summary
After a public hearing on a hotel and road extension project, the Clear Lake City Council denied an appeal by the Koi Nation challenging AB 52 tribal consultation but amended the mitigated negative declaration to require tribal-led sensitivity training and explicit coordination with a tribal cultural resources consultant.
Clear Lake — The City Council voted unanimously to deny an appeal filed by the Koi Nation challenging the City’s environmental review and Planning Commission approval of a proposed hotel and an Eighteenth Avenue extension, but the council added language to require tribal coordination and tribal-led cultural sensitivity training before ground-disturbing work.
The appeal centered on whether the city complied with Assembly Bill 52’s tribal consultation requirements during preparation of the mitigated negative declaration for the hotel and related road work near the airport (project: CUP2022-02, DR2022-02; CEQA IS 2022-06; APN 042-121-25). Koi Nation representatives told the council they had documented tribal cultural resources (TCRs) near the project area and said consultation had not been completed.
Tribal historic preservation officer Robert Geary told the council that “the tribe is not against this, as far as the project itself,” but…
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