LAKEPORT, Calif. — The Lake County Planning Commission will discuss permits for a new boat rental facility in Lakeport during its meeting this week.

The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Thursday, May 22, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.

The agenda is here.

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At 9:05 a.m., the commission will hold a public hearing to consider a lakebed encroachment permit and variance request for the Disney Boat Rental Facility, which will be located on a six-acre parcel at 2200 Lakeshore Blvd. in Lakeport.

The applicant is Brandon Disney, owner of Disney’s Boat Rentals.

The staff report notes that, “Although the planning entitlements and building permits for the Disney Development Project are within the City of Lakeport’s jurisdiction, the installation of two floating docks and buoys require a Lakebed Encroachment Permit from the Lake County Water Resources Department, in accordance with Chapter 23, Clear Lake Shoreline, of the Lake County Municipal Code.”

The hearing documents explain that Disney’s Boat Rentals intends to relocate its existing operations from downtown Lakeport to this Lakeshore Boulevard site, where the business plans to build a two story, 4,778-square-foot building that would serve as a rental office, shop and boat storage facility, including space for the repair of fleet boats, as well as installation of two
floating docks.

Staff is recommending approval of the project’s permits.

The other main item of business on Thursday’s agenda is a public hearing, scheduled for 9:20 a.m., to consider a major use permit for commercial cannabis cultivation for up to 5.69 acres and a draft Initial study/mitigated negative declaration for Poverty Flats Ranch, with applicants Kurt and Bobby Barthel. The project is located at 10535 High Valley Road, Clearlake Oaks.

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