A long-time waterfront lease holder is selling out, more money is being requested to finish auditing waterfront leases, an agreement with a local mountain bikers club on a proposed BMX track, and the acquisition of a 3-acre parking lot on Front Street are on tap at the next Morro Bay City Council Meeting.
The Council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13 at the Vet’s Hall, 209 Surf St. The show will be broadcasted live on Charter Cable Channel 20, too.
In waterfront-related matters, M&M Refrigeration, which leases a building and dock at 1287 Embarcadero, is asking the City to reassign its master lease to the Morro Bay Oyster Co.
The Harbor Department is asking the Council to allocate another $20,000 to continue with its extensive auditing program of City managed lease sites that has been ongoing for most of 2014.
And the council is also expected to accept a “quit claim” deed of ownership of the so-called Triangle Lot, located at the northern end of Front Street. The City has long coveted that property and it looked last year like it would be signed over to the City in lieu of Power Plant owner Dynegy paying its final $525,000 outfall lease payment before closing the plant down.
Those negotiations fell through, the City got its money and now, the company is signing over the property, which is already being used as a parking lot.
The council will also review options for the 1-acre vacant lot it owns in the Cloisters, at the corner of San Jacinto Street and Coral Avenue. The property has been for sale for about eight years or so, and every offer that’s been made has fallen through. The City has pledged to use money from the sale of that property to pay down the debt on the new Harbor Street Fire Station.
And finally, the Central Coast Concerned Mountain Bikers, a non-profit organization that maintains mountain bike trails throughout the Central Coast has signed on for a “memorandum of understanding” with the City, as the responsible organization to construct, repair and maintain the so-called “Little Morro Creek Road Bike Park,” proposed to be constructed on City-owned vacant land along Main Street between Radcliff and the Morro Bay Door Co.
Citizens have been trying for several years to build an off road bike park, to replace one that used to be next to the old Flippo’s Skating Rink on Atascadero Road, which was torn down when that property was sold and eventually turned into a small RV park.
