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Lake County staff seeks site-specific standards for group camps and commercial lodging
Summary
At a Dec. 8 study session, Lake County planning staff proposed draft code edits that would shift maximum occupancy and many standards for group camps and vacation lodges from prescriptive limits to site-specific determinations through the conditional use review process, citing access, wildlife and safety concerns.
Lake County planning staff on Dec. 8 presented draft changes to the county's commercial lodging rules that would make allowable occupancy and certain standards for group camps and vacation lodges the product of a site-specific conditional use review rather than fixed code maximums.
Staff walked commissioners through existing definitions and standards: group camps and vacation lodges currently have a 5-people-per-acre density cap, a minimum parcel size of 5 acres (20 acres for private resorts/guest ranches), setbacks of 50 feet (200 feet for large parcels), and maximum occupancies of 100 (group camps) and 500 (private resorts). Staff argued these blanket numbers do not account for variations in…
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