Supervisors to Consider Condo Plan : Development: Building 140 housing units on a county-owned site at the Channel Islands Harbor would generate sizeable tax revenues.

A proposal to build 140 condominiums on five acres of waterfront land at the county-owned Channel Islands Harbor will be considered today by the Board of Supervisors.

The $36.5-million project, which would be located on Peninsula Road at the site of a parking lot and private tennis courts, is expected to bring the county an infusion of tax dollars and other revenue.

As the landowner, the county would receive a 10% commission on the sale of each condominium, totaling more than $3.6 million for the entire project, preliminary estimates show. In addition, the county would collect annual property rental fees of $268,000 from the condominium owners.

Beginning five years after the project is completed, the county is also anticipating about $100,000 annually from a transfer fee charged each time that a homeowner sells one of the condominiums.

The project would be the first condominium development on county-owned harbor property. Dozens of commercial and residential tenants now have long-term leases with the county on its prime waterfront land.

The county already gets profits of more than $6 million annually from marina slip fees, taxes on shopkeepers and rental fees from 650 privately owned apartment units at the harbor, according to county officials.

The condominium project is proposed by Anacapa Ventures, a partnership that owns the adjacent Anacapa Isle Apartments. Michael Beebe, the group’s managing partner, could not be reached for comment Monday.

Under an agreement with Anacapa Ventures, the county would lease the harbor land to the condominium complex for 99 years.

Supervisor John K. Flynn, whose district includes the harbor, said he supports building the condos and hopes the taxes and fees generated by the project will be used to reinforce the harbor’s breakwater and other maintenance.

But Flynn said he worries that the project may become embroiled in a dispute between county and Oxnard officials, both of whom believe that they have final say in approving construction at the harbor.

The county believes that it has jurisdiction because the harbor is county-owned. But Oxnard officials say they have final say because the harbor is within city boundaries.

The ongoing discrepancy has already delayed a proposal to convert the 120 units at the Anacapa Isle Apartments into condos, Flynn said.

The conversion plan was approved by the Board of Supervisors in July. But so far Oxnard officials have withheld their approval, saying the conversion does not meet Oxnard building standards.

Oxnard Councilman Manuel Lopez agreed that the dispute over jurisdiction at the harbor may also postpone the construction of the proposed condos.

“We have been told by our attorneys that since it’s within the city limits we have final jurisdiction,” he said.

Blake Boyle, deputy director of the county’s recreational services, estimated that it could take Anacapa Ventures up to two years to get the needed permits to begin building. Construction could take about nine months, he said. Units are expected to be priced at about $260,000.

Under county rules, any money generated by privately owned businesses and apartments in the harbor could be used either to pay for the maintenance of regional parks and campgrounds or for harbor maintenance. But Flynn and others want the money generated by the condo complex to be earmarked exclusively for harbor improvements.

In contrast to the Ventura Harbor, which has been bogged down in controversy and lawsuits over its management, the Channel Islands Harbor has been almost trouble-free, county officials said.

“I can’t remember the last lawsuit we had involving the harbor,” said county Chief Administrator Richard Wittenberg.