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Amid skepticism, property owners who lost homes in the Angora fire will soon receive estimates of the land available to them for rebuilding.
Approximately 40 letters from the El Dorado County Development Service Department that detail individual coverage estimates were in the mail Thursday morning. The rest should have been mailed by Monday, according to Mike Applegarth, El Dorado County joint information center manager.
Included with the letters are packets of information about the rebuilding process and a fact sheet showing how coverage estimates were calculated.
A majority of homes destroyed in the fire do not have site plans on record, and the county has used permit histories, insurance assessors' fields notes and site assessments by county staff and California Integrated Waste Management Board debris removal teams to determine coverage figures, Applegarth said.
On Thursday, South Lake Tahoe real estate agent Sue Abrams blasted the way estimates were determined, saying the method was "completely and totally bogus."
Coverage for at least a dozen properties has already been significantly underestimated, Abrams said.
"Our gold in Tahoe is square footage," Abrams said. "This is a form of taking," she added, referring to the legal definition of "taking," where an entity acquires private property without due compensation to the owner.
Owners' coverage claims will be looked at in the "most reasonable and generous ways that we can," said Bob Green, South Lake Tahoe branch manager for county development services.
Green acknowledged disputes may occur between a homeowner's coverage estimate and the county's. He encouraged property owners to make an appointment with him to discuss discrepancies.
Those who cannot resolve issues in this forum may present their grievances to the El Dorado County Environmental Appeals Board.
"Hopefully that will put to rest any dispute," said Green, who added the county is doing everything it can to favor homeowners and get them through the rebuilding process as quickly and painlessly as possible.
"We're not here to quibble over a couple square feet here and there," Green said.
Approximately 40 letters from the El Dorado County Development Service Department that detail individual coverage estimates were in the mail Thursday morning. The rest should have been mailed by Monday, according to Mike Applegarth, El Dorado County joint information center manager.
Included with the letters are packets of information about the rebuilding process and a fact sheet showing how coverage estimates were calculated.
A majority of homes destroyed in the fire do not have site plans on record, and the county has used permit histories, insurance assessors' fields notes and site assessments by county staff and California Integrated Waste Management Board debris removal teams to determine coverage figures, Applegarth said.
On Thursday, South Lake Tahoe real estate agent Sue Abrams blasted the way estimates were determined, saying the method was "completely and totally bogus."
Coverage for at least a dozen properties has already been significantly underestimated, Abrams said.
"Our gold in Tahoe is square footage," Abrams said. "This is a form of taking," she added, referring to the legal definition of "taking," where an entity acquires private property without due compensation to the owner.
Owners' coverage claims will be looked at in the "most reasonable and generous ways that we can," said Bob Green, South Lake Tahoe branch manager for county development services.
Green acknowledged disputes may occur between a homeowner's coverage estimate and the county's. He encouraged property owners to make an appointment with him to discuss discrepancies.
Those who cannot resolve issues in this forum may present their grievances to the El Dorado County Environmental Appeals Board.
"Hopefully that will put to rest any dispute," said Green, who added the county is doing everything it can to favor homeowners and get them through the rebuilding process as quickly and painlessly as possible.
"We're not here to quibble over a couple square feet here and there," Green said.
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