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• Board Meeting Date: 1/30/1980
• Description: Agenda and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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That was a problem to be resolved. That issue not

yet being resolved, we have received information--and I would

3 be the first to say that it's third-hand information, it is

4 not direct from the horse's mouth--but it indicates that at

5 least one of the people who will own the land around the reser

6 voir is considering the opportunities that may arise by his

7 subdividing his land. It will clearly be a windfall profit.

8 This is the case's first impression for the Board.

9 We've never built a reservoir before in which it was proposed

10 that the surrounding land remain in private hands. The one

11 we have constructed, or rather is under construction, is on

12 Forest Service property, and it was essential that there be

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public access; so the issue didn't arise at that time.

The staff, I think, is primarily of the opinion that

it would be inappropriate for the Board to fund a project if

the land stays in private hands around that project and left

the opportunity to that private individual to take all the

benefits of what will be the enhanced value of the land. It's

19 an issue that deserves SOme further consideration on our part.

We propose not that the Board withdraw its support

of the project, but rather that the Board instruct the staff

to contact the local sponsor and say that the possibility of

private land being subdivided is an issue that the Board wants

to address further and take up at subsequent meetings; and

that the staff be further directed to report back to the Board