LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Planning Commission this week is set to discuss the final environmental impact report for a south county development and consider age limits on used manufactured home installations in the county.
The commission will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday, June 25, in the Board of Supervisors' chambers at the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
At 9:05 a.m., the commission will hold a public hearing on the final environmental impact report for the Valley Oaks senior subdivision development, and consider making a recommendation on the project to the Board of Supervisors.
Ken Porter of Kimco Development proposes to build the project on 150 acres located at 18196 and 18426 South State Highway 29, Middletown.
The 380 homes Porter plans to build in six phases would be single story and for residents ages 55 and up, one of the main changes from the development's previous plans, which had no age restriction.
Plans also call for a senior housing/assisted living facility, 29 acres of public open space, trails and park facilities, a 31-acre commercial area fronting Highway 29 and a realignment of Coyote Creek.
At the commission's May 28 meeting, Porter and his team presented an update on the project, the draft environmental impact report, or EIR, for which the commission approved in 2009.
Community Development Director Rick Coel at the May meeting urged the commission to take extra time to review the project, since only one member – Gil Schoux – was a commissioner in 2009 when the project's draft EIR was approved.
Valley Oaks' EIR consideration was then rescheduled for the June 11 meeting, but Coel said at that time that he and his staff hadn't been able to get the commission all of the information it needed, so the item was held over again, to the June 25 meeting.
As part of the proposal, Kimco Development is seeking a general plan amendment from Agricultural and Resource Conservation to Community Commercial, High Density Residential, Low Density Residential and Resource Conservation, a rezone from “A” Agriculture, to “PDC-DR”, Planned Development Commercial-Design Review Combining District, “PDR-RD” Planned Development Residential-Residential Design Combining District and “O” Open Space; and General Plan of Development.
Also on Thursday, at 10:15 a.m., the commission will hold a public hearing to consider proposed amendments to the Lake County Zoning Ordinance pertaining to age limits for installation of used manufactured homes on private property throughout Lake County.
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