LAKEPORT, Calif. – In its first meeting of 2015, the Lakeport Planning Commission is scheduled to look at projects proposed by the Lake County Vector Control District and Lake County Tribal Health, and consider city general plan updates.

The commission will meet beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.

On the commission agenda is an application for an architectural and design review proposed by Lake County Tribal Health Consortium for a 1,500-square-foot, single-story addition to house a kitchen and break room at its existing 31,000-square-foot outpatient medical clinic at 925 Bevins Court.

The addition will have movable partitions to allow for the space to be used in a variety of ways, with a new concrete patio and shade canopy also to be located to the west of the new addition, according to the planning staff report.

Planning staff is recommending the commission approve the project based on a set of standard conditions that include maintaining the building in good condition and adhering to construction standards.

In other business on Wednesday, the commission will hold a public hearing to consider recommendations to the Lakeport City Council regarding the Lakeport General Plan environmental impact report addendum and other amendments.

According to a report to the commission from Special Projects Coordinator Richard Knoll, “The 2014 General Plan EIR Addendum addresses proposed changes and amendments to the Lakeport General Plan as recommended by the Lakeport Planning Commission to the Lakeport City Council on June 17, 2014.”

He said it would reduce the Lakeport sphere of influence, modify general plan policies and actions to address conservation, infrastructure, utilities, and growth, and would modify the Lakeport General Plan land use map and city of Lakeport pre-zoning in the southern portion of the Lakeport General Plan area and sphere of influence.

Also on Wednesday, the commission will continue its discussion and consideration of the zone change, general plan amendment and environmental review for Lake County Vector Control's properties located at 408 and 410 Esplanade St. and 35 C St.

The commission previously had discussed the vector control matters at its Nov. 12 meeting, during which it also held a public hearing.

New Community Development Director Kevin Ingram's report to the commission for Wednesday's meeting explains that during the course of the Nov. 12 hearing, community members raised a number of concerns related to parking, lake access, hazardous materials storage and the “piecemealing” of the environmental review process related to potential future development.

At that point, the commission voted to continue the hearing to this month, with staff working in the meantime to address the public's concerns, according to Ingram's report.

He said planning staff believes all of the questions and concerns have been satisfactorily addressed.

“Information obtained from correspondence from Vector Control does not result in any new environmental impacts that were not previously analyzed as part of the prepared initial study/environmental review prepared for the November 12, 2014 public hearing,” he wrote.

As a result, “Planning staff is not recommending any additional changes to the previously presented findings and conditions,” Ingram said.

He said staff recommends the approval of the proposed general plan amendment and the proposed zone change as described in the Nov. 12 staff report and subject to a number of mitigation measures set forth in the updated staff report.

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