Amador County – The city of Ione’s requested changes to its city limits and its “Sphere of Influence” will be heard next week by the Amador County Local Agency Formation Commission.
The LAFCO board of directors is scheduled to start the meeting, in part, by selecting its new chairman and vice chair. The board will then consider a resolution to amend Ione’s Sphere of Influence, and open a public hearing on the matter.
Ione proposes a Sphere of Influence amendment to add portions of four parcels and remove a portion of another from its sphere. The resolution says the “addition includes the city’s wastewater treatment plant, the Castle Oaks Water Reclamation Plant, and privately owned properties.” As part of the proposed change, there would be concurrent amendments “to remove the same lands” from the Spheres of Influence of the Amador Fire Protection District, the Amador Resource Conservation District, and County Service Areas 5, 6 and 7.
LAFCO next week will also consider an annexation of just over 33 acres of land into the city of Ione, making up the land that holds the city’s wastewater treatment plant. The property is owned by the city, and also the Fitzgerald and Dutschke parcels.
The agenda notes that the “proposal is exempt from the requirements for notice and hearing.” The city of Ione is lead agency in both the amendment and the annexation. Both were subject of a joint meeting of the Amador County Board of Supervisors and the Ione City Council, who on the LAFCO board’s request came to an agreement about the changes.
The LAFCO announcement said that all people are “invited to testify and submit written comments to the commission,” and if someone challenges a LAFCO board action in court, “you may be limited to issues raised at the public hearing or submitted as written comments prior to the close of the public hearing.”
All material regarding the meeting is available for public review at the LAFCO desk at the Amador County Planning Department.
The meeting is set for 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20 in the supervisors chamber at the county admin building, in Jackson.
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