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Bad=20 day: Naples owner and hopeful developer Matt Osgood (pictured,=20 pointing) had a rough go at the Board of Supes this week. Despite = gaining=20 approval for his Naples vision exactly one year before, the developer = watched as=20 a new board created an ordinance that will terminate the development = agreements=20 that have been in place since last October.

Naples Plans Hit Major Snag

Board Votes to Rescind Naples = Development=20 Agreement

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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It must have felt like an incredibly painful sort of d=C3=A9j=C3=A0 = vu for hopeful=20 Naples developer Matt Osgood at the county supervisors=E2=80=99 this = week. Nearly one=20 year to the day since his controversial 71-mansion plan for the historic = ranch=20 at the eastern gate of Gaviota was narrowly approved by a previous = incarnation=20 of the board, the Orange County-based developer was once again before = the supes=20 wrestling over the fate of his long-stewing = project=E2=80=89=E2=80=94=E2=80=89only this time he lost. In=20 a rather significant turn of events, the new board majority (1st = District=E2=80=99s=20 Salud Carbajal, 2nd District=E2=80=99s Janet Wolf, and 3rd = District=E2=80=99s Doreen Farr)=20 created an ordinance that rescinds the development agreements approved = by the=20 board last year. Though not necessarily a death blow to Osgood=E2=80=99s = development=20 dreams, the new ordinance=E2=80=89=E2=80=94=E2=80=89which is slated to = be finalized next week=E2=80=89=E2=80=94 not only=20 greatly reduces the likelihood that houses will be built at Naples = anytime soon,=20 but it also=E2=80=89=E2=80=94=E2=80=89perhaps more = importantly=E2=80=89=E2=80=94=E2=80=89gives the current supervisors = newfound=20 authority over what exactly the final project will look like. =E2=80=9CI = have been in=20 this process for 11 years,=E2=80=9D explained a visibly upset Osgood = before the fateful=20 votes were cast. =E2=80=9CIt is shameful that you are even considering = this.=E2=80=9D

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Matt Osgood

It has been a confused and twisted road for all parties involved = since Osgood=20 won project approval and two development agreements (one for the inland = portion=20 of the project and one for the coastal) from the county late last = October. Once=20 Doreen Farr, who ran on a pro-preservation platform, replaced Brooks = Firestone=20 as the 3rd District Supervisor in early January, the wheels almost = immediately=20 started coming off Osgood=E2=80=99s wagon. Allegations of a Brown Act = violation, levied=20 by attorneys for the Naples Coalition and the Surfrider Foundation in = response=20 to a closed-session decision by the Firestone board to separate the = inland and=20 ocean side portions of the project into two distinct ventures, saw the = new board=20 reopen the debate and ultimately decide, much to the consternation of = Osgood, to=20 officially re-link the project.

=E2=80=9CThis will produce results you don=E2=80=99t understand and = will not=20 appreciate.=E2=80=9D

Of the mindset that the project was always two separate entities = since he=20 first started running the approval gauntlet more than a decade ago, the = new=20 coupled configuration irked Osgood to such a degree that he terminated = the=20 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between him and the county in early = spring,=20 something that had been helping guide the whole process for several = years. In=20 the months since, county staff has struggled to translate what exactly a = terminated MOU would mean for the development agreements and figure out = the=20 paperwork necessary to move the project along to the Coastal Commission = and the=20 Department of Conservation for final sign-off. The uncertainty rose to = such a=20 degree that three times this past summer the supes had false starts in = trying to=20 resolve the situation, once voting to continue the matter and twice = simply=20 rescheduling meetings to a future date. All that ended this week.

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Matt Osgood

Hanging their hats on the terminated MOU, the recent For Sale signs = at=20 neighboring Dos Pueblos Ranch (lot mergers at the ranch and a massive=20 agricultural conservation easement on the property were part of the = Naples=20 approval last fall), and an as yet unsatisfied request by the Coastal = Commission=20 for further biological review, the majority of the supes decided too = much had=20 changed in the 12 months since the development agreements were agreed = upon. They=20 therefore voted to create an ordinance that undoes the agreements so as = to free=20 the board=E2=80=99s hands and allow them to tinker with the contracts = accordingly. The=20 vote was 3-2, with Joni Gray and Joe Centeno opposed.

For Osgood, the decision was an understandably tough twist of fate = after=20 years of working and reworking his = designs=E2=80=89=E2=80=94=E2=80=89spending, by his estimation, more=20 than $2 million on county fees, environmental impact reports, and = Transfer of=20 Development Rights studies=E2=80=89=E2=80=94=E2=80=89and eventually = gaining an approval. In short, he=20 felt betrayed and let down by what he described as the lack of = =E2=80=9Cgood=20 governance.=E2=80=9D Even before Tuesday=E2=80=99s vote, he opined, = =E2=80=9CObviously, I would rather=20 win than lose, but with government, the least you hope for is that = things are=20 fair. I mean, Farr won=E2=80=99t even take a meeting with me anymore. I = feel like I=E2=80=99m=20 not in America.=E2=80=9D

As for the future, unless things change when the finalizing vote is = taken,=20 the approved project will move on to the Coastal Commission level in the = coming=20 months. In the meantime, Osgood=E2=80=99s lawyer Stanley Lampwert summed = up their take=20 on this week=E2=80=99s development when he said to the board (no doubt = hinting a future=20 day in court), =E2=80=9CThis will produce results you don=E2=80=99t = understand and will not=20 appreciate.=E2=80=9D

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