Services must be examined before considering appeal to annex
senior project
A closer look at Hollister’s lacking services has prompted LAFCO
to push back the consideration of the appeal to annex the Annotti
senior community subdivision until Dec. 5.
Services must be examined before considering appeal to annex senior project
A closer look at Hollister’s lacking services has prompted LAFCO to push back the consideration of the appeal to annex the Annotti senior community subdivision until Dec. 5.
Rob Mendiola, director of the Local Agency Formation Commission, said the appeal would have to wait until his staff completes a commission-ordered study of Hollister’s Urban Service Area, that is a region in which the city has said it can provide services. The review will determine what services – water, sewage disposal, emergency services, schools and roads free from congestion – that the city is able to extend to outside its urban service boundary. Not all of the Anotti property is inside Hollister’s service area.
At the Sept. 26 LAFCO meeting Mendiola announced the decision to delay the appeal, which prompted Hollister council member Peggy Corrales to complain that it should be processed sooner because the applicants — developers Marilyn and Richard Ferreira and Marty Miller of Warmington Homes — “have been waiting.”
But the recent order banning new sewage hookups in the city renders the appeal moot at this time.
“Certainly the cease and desist order makes one wonder about the urgency in this situation,” said Mendiola. “There aren’t any services to be granted to anyone.”
The next LAFCO meeting is scheduled on Oct. 24 at 5:15 p.m. in the supervisors’ chambers at Fourth and West streets.
