Village Laguna thinks it’s important that the Council apply the teachings acquired from its Brown Act violations concerning the lawful wants for transparency, customary process, and basic public involvement and use them to the Resort Laguna’s renovation. Initially and foremost this signifies conducting an open and neighborhood strategy for the resort. That course of begins with Arranging Fee consider. For some trigger, the Council has absolutely slice out the Organising Price from reviewing the Lodge’s renovation, denying itself and the neighborhood from the revenue of the Fee’s talents. 2nd, the Council ought to stand by the employees’s insistence that the Laguna Seashore entrance Enterprise submit an intensive program for the Lodge’s renovation. An entire technique isn’t just glorious scheduling. It’s a authorized necessity. To date, the Metropolis has been conducting a piecemeal evaluation of the lodge’s renovation. It’s plainly foreseeable, nevertheless, that the entire lodge shall be renovated. The California Environmental Fine quality Act thus entails that the Council carry out an environmental overview of the full job, not simply the private gadgets which can be beneath enable.
Referring to the data of the employees members report on the Resort Laguna, there are numerous topics we increase now that we’d have delivered to the Council’s discover if we skilled skilled a applicable public strategy.
The employees report mentions the historic report which has not been publicly reviewed, and consequently its suggestions haven’t been vetted nor validated. The within rework has been accomplished with out public overview, and we now have no assurance that the variations which have been made are in compliance with the Secretary of Inside Benchmarks and with the guidelines of the historic report. It is a important element of a CEQA analysis noticed above. There was a dedication that the Lodge will keep certified for the Countrywide Signal-up of Historic Spots and it’s important that that eligibility will not be compromised.
The neighborhood is counting on the metropolis to implement its very personal directives, essentially the most important of which has been to demand Mr. Honarkar to supply “an intensive technique for the Lodge Laguna property” simply earlier than end-get the job accomplished orders are lifted. Disappointingly, the city backed down on this prerequisite even nevertheless Mr. Honarkar has skilled a few 12 months to generate that plan.This betrays the imagine in of our metropolis’s inhabitants.
We appear ahead to persevering with to operate with you on this vital activity and hope that you’ll strongly implement town’s polices and customary procedures heading forward.
Johanna Felder, Laguna Seaside
