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Council accepts Toll Brothers improvements for Tract 19128 amid resident questions
Summary
The council approved the acceptance of Toll Brothers’ improvements and the release of bonds for Tract 19128 as part of the consent calendar after a resident said he could not locate the property on the county assessor’s site and urged the council to delay the vote.
The Lake Forest City Council on Dec. 2 approved, via the consent calendar, acceptance of Toll Brothers’ improvements and the release of bonds for Tract 19128.
The item was contained on the consent calendar, which the council approved with a single remainder vote that passed unanimously. When the clerk called item 7 for separate public comment, Ken Forbes of Foothill Ranch spoke and said he had reviewed the agenda and could not locate the property on the Orange County Assessor’s website. "Maybe I'm just naive, but I don't know where this property is that you're voting for," Forbes said, and urged the council "not to vote on it tonight" until the public had more information.
Council moved and seconded the consent-calendar motion and then voted; staff recorded the motion as passing unanimously. The consent action on Tract 19128 was approved as presented; the transcript does not record a roll-call tally or additional council discussion of the bond-release paperwork during the meeting.
Forbes also referenced the cost scale and compared the decision to other recent controversial items; the agenda packet or staff report should have the bond amount and project location. (The transcript contains Forbes’s remark "half $1,000,000," which is ambiguous; no explicit bond amount appears in the spoken record provided.)
