LAKEPORT, Calif. – The city of Lakeport has a new police station.
Escrow for the city's new police headquarters building, located at 2025 S. Main St., closed on March 10, according to Lakeport Police Chief Brad Rasmussen.
The city reached an agreement late last year to purchase the building from Santa Rosa resident Jean Howe for $875,000, as Lake County News has reported.
Built in 2002, the 4,396-square-foot building – located on just over half an acre next to Kmart – is nearly 1,400 square feet larger than the police department's home since 1999, located at 916 N. Forbes St.
City officials said that, once the N. Forbes Street building is vacated by the police department, they will consider others uses for that building, including the possibility of renting it out for office space.
The new headquarters building has had only one previous occupant, the Social Security Administration.
Rasmussen said the city is now preparing to hire a local project manager to oversee the work of making some modifications to the building to suit the department.
The work will include adding some interior walls, handling the changeover of phone and computer network, and the addition of a fence behind the building to secure police vehicles, according to Rasmussen.
On April 8, the Lakeport Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the city's acquisition of the property and the station's relocation.
The hearing will be for the commission to consider approving a general plan consistency report, general plan amendment from major retail to public and civic uses, zone change from major retail C-2 zoning to public and civic uses zoning, and a negative declaration for the overall project based on an environmental review.
The proposed negative declaration is available for review at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St., and at www.cityoflakeport.com .
Rasmussen said that the goal is for the Lakeport Police Department to be in its new home by July 1.
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