CLEARLAKE, Calif. – This week the Clearlake Planning Commission will hold a hearing on a proposed development project, discuss signage and consider a request from a daycare that wishes to expand.

The meeting of the commission – sitting jointly as the Parks and Recreation Committee – will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 5, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.

On Tuesday the commission will hold a hearing to consider whether to recommend the Clearlake City Council adopt an ordinance approving a development agreement with Orosco Development No. 19, LLC for property located at 15885 Dam Road.

Documents available for the meeting do not give specifics about the project. City Manager Greg Folsom is expected to give a brief report on the project, input will be taken and, the discussion will be continued to the July 19 meeting.

In other business, the commission will discuss amendments to the city's municipal code relating to signage in response to a June 2015 United States Supreme Court decision that found an Arizona town's sign regulations violated the First Amendment's free speech provision.

Among the proposed changes are those relating to how election and political signage is regulated, limiting window signage size, clarifications on how signage size is calculated and adding a clause which prevents the city from favoring commercial messages over those that are noncommercial.

Also on Tuesday, the commission will consider a use permit request from Cherry McCracken of Rumsey Rascals, a daycare facility located on Rumsey Road.

McCracken is asking to enlarge the small in-home family daycare facility from a maximum of eight children to a large in-home family daycare facility that may care for up to 14 children.

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