LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport Planning Commission this week will discuss amending the environmental document for the Downtown Improvement Project, honor a retiring commissioner and discuss planning department activity.

The commission will meet beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.

On the meeting's agenda is an award presentation to retiring Commissioner Ross Kauper, who has served on the commission since October 2002.

In other business, planning staff will take to the commission the amended negative declaration for the Downtown Improvement Project's phase two, set to run from this spring until the fall on South Main Street between First and Fourth streets.

A report to the commission from city Associate Planner Daniel Chance said the original mitigated declaration for the plan was accepted in 2006, covering both the first and second phases.

However, Chance said the commission needs to consider the amendment because the original document did not analyze the potential impacts related to nighttime construction, which is how the work on the second phase is proposed to take place.

“The purpose of the construction taking place at night is to limit the impacts on the downtown businesses, reduce traffic impacts, and faster completion of the improvements,” Chance wrote.

Also on Wednesday, the commission will get the planning department's 2015 year-end report – including a summary of various land use applications, code enforcement activities and nuisance abatement activities for the 2015 calendar year – as well as an update on projects pending approval as of Feb. 4.

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