Shasta County planning commissioners voted 5-0 on May 14 to recommend a zoning amendment that would give the Brian & Jennifer Johnson Family Trust more time to pay required fees tied to a Bella Vista rezoning, according to Resolution No. 2026-010.
The resolution says the family’s 2023 rezoning ordinance was never operative because required filing fees were not paid within 30 days after passage. It would extend the deadline for paying the Shasta County Clerk’s document handling fee for posting a Notice of Exemption and the fees required under Fish and Wildlife Code Section 711.4 to July 23, 2027, while still requiring recordation of Property Line Adjustment 23-0003 before the ordinance can take effect.
The Planning Commission’s action recommends that the Board of Supervisors approve Zone Amendment 26-0001 and adopt the ordinance amendment. The resolution says the underlying 2023 action rezoned the Bella Vista property from Exclusive Agriculture combined with Agricultural Preserve to Limited Agriculture, but that the ordinance has remained dormant because the fee condition was not satisfied.
The property is described in the ordinance as a 4-acre portion of an 88.90-acre parcel at 10921 Old Oregon Trail in Redding, about 0.85 miles south of Old Oregon Trail’s intersection with College View Drive. The 2023 ordinance also required recording of Property Line Adjustment 23-0003 with the county recorder before the rezoning could become operative.
The resolution says the county found the amendment not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act under State CEQA Guidelines section 15061(b)(3) and exempt under section 15301, with no unusual circumstances under section 15300.2(c).
