CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Community members are invited to participate in meetings planned for this month that are meant to help shape the future of Clearlake’s Lakeshore Drive Downtown Corridor.
The city of Clearlake is hosting a series of community events on Tuesday, Oct. 9, through Friday, Oct. 12, to help create a plan for improving conditions along Lakeshore Drive.
The project area encompasses Lakeshore Drive from Olympic Drive to Old Highway 53, and will address walking, bicycling, parking, transit, street beautification, lake access and economic revitalization issues.
Community input will help identify a range of improvements along the corridor.
Everyone is invited and encouraged to participate.
The events will kick off with a walking assessment of the area from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, beginning at Highlands Park.
During the walkabout, participants will review conditions along the Lakeshore Drive corridor, and help determine where and how improvements can be made. Please wear comfortable shoes.
After the walk, a community workshop will be held at Clearlake City Hall from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Participants will have a chance to become “community designers” as they craft their own solutions to design issues in the area. Share your ideas – and free pizza – with friends and neighbors.
On Wednesday, Oct. 10, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., community members are encouraged to drop by the Design Open Studio, and look at the designs in progress and talk with the design team.
The studio will be set up across from Highlands Park at 14330 Lakeshore Drive, next to David Hughes & Associates Real Estate office.
The community input from these sessions will be incorporated into the final plan.
On Friday, Oct. 12, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at Clearlake City Hall, the design team will offer a more complete presentation of the concepts for the Lakeshore Drive Downtown Corridor Plan when it unveils the preliminary designs.
Immediately following the Friday evening presentation and public feedback, the city of Clearlake and Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a community reception at Austin Park from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. to celebrate the community’s efforts to shape the future of the Lakeshore Drive Downtown Corridor. Come enjoy wine tasting, hors d’oeuvres and live music.
The corridor improvement project is sponsored by the city of Clearlake, Lake County/City Area Planning Council, Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with the nonprofit Local Government Commission ( www.lgc.org ), and is funded through a California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Community Based Transportation Planning Grant and local planning funds.
For more information, www.lakeapc.org or contact Terri Persons, 707-263-7799.