City Council: Calpine, WWTP rebate, Limoneira development on agenda Monday night
April 01, 2016
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula News
City Hall should be packed Monday when the Council hears from a representative of the Calpine Mission Rock Energy Center, gets an update on The Harvest at Limoneira, is asked to approve the first wastewater treatment rebate and considers establishing a Mello-Roos for the new Limoneira-Lewis community.
The April 4 meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. and broadcast live by Time Warner Cable Channel 10; it will be replayed according to schedule. The session will also be live-streamed on the city’s website and archived for viewing on demand.
There will be a public hearing on proposed increases to the Development Impact Fee as well as the decreases in the 2016 General Plan Maintenance Fee Study. The council will also be asked to receive and file the Five-Year Report on Unexpended Development Impact Fee Funds.
Acting as the Geologic Hazards Abatement District Directors the council will also consider continuing the annual fee of $1,414 parcel assessment for hillside property owners.
The council will be updated by representatives of Limoneira Lewis Community Builders on the development also known as East Area 1; the council will also be asked to adopt a Community Facilities District using Mello-Roos for The Harvest at Limoneira.
Santa Paula Materials, which leases a parcel south of Highway 126 that benefits Harding Park, will also be the subject of an update.
Good news for consumers is that the council will consider a $60 rebate on May’s basic $77.21 wastewater service charge, the first since the city purchased the plant a year ago using bonds that sliced the interest rate by half. It is proposed that when other financial obligations are met that residents will receive a quarterly rebate.
There will be a further update on the application by the Mission Rock Energy Center from Mitch Weinberg, Calpine director of origination and development.
Although last on the agenda it is possible that the item will be moved up to again allow public speakers time to comment on the growing controversy of a so-called “peaker plant” planned two miles west of the city, Calpine is proposing the facility for property in the Mission Rock industrial area where November 2014 explosions and a fire occurred at Santa Clara Waste Water – Green Compass.
City Hall is located at 970 E. Ventura St.
