- Elizabeth Larson
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Lakeport Planning Commission to discuss warehouse and housing projects
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Lakeport Planning Commission is set to consider projects this week that include a new warehouse and a housing project that features both apartments and houses near Westside Park.
The commission will meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 10, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
The council chambers will be open to the public for the meeting. Masks are highly encouraged where 6-foot distancing cannot be maintained.
The agenda is available here.
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The first of the two main items on the Wednesday agenda is an application from BND Holdings of Warren, New Jersey, for an architectural and design review that would allow a 3,599 square foot commercial metal building for storage/distribution to be located on property owned by Maryann Spinali of Lakeport at 2225 and 2232 Specht Court, a block from S. Main Street and near the former Kmart site.
The staff report explains, “The purpose of the structure is to receive, store, and deliver packaged snack foods.”
Specifically, the report said the interior of the building will be used as a Frito-Lay Product Exchange Center with an adjoining office for the purpose of receiving, storing and delivering packaged snack foods.
The building will consist of a 2,722 square foot warehouse space, and an 877 square foot office space.
There also will be 16 parking spaces, paved with asphalt, and an extension of an Americans with Disabilities Act-accessible parking stall and ramp to the new building.
Tractor trailers will deliver products from the distribution center which will be unloaded via a pallet jack at a dock height door directly into the proposed building. The products would then be received by box trucks and delivered to retail locations such as convenience stores, staff reported.
In peak seasons, the operations proposed would be around the clock, seven days a week, the report said.
The report said the nearest residence is located about 400 feet west of the project property, which is separated by Highway 29, “therefore deliveries/pickups would not have an impact to surrounding residences.”
Staff is recommending the application’s approval.
The second key item for Wednesday is Waterstone Residential’s application for a zone change, tentative subdivision map, environmental review and general plan amendment for 128 apartment units and 48 cluster homes at 1310 Craig Ave.
The 128 apartments would be located in 10 two-story buildings, split evenly between two- and three-bedroom units. There also would be 48 attached single-family homes.
In addition to the 176 dwelling units, the project would consist of community facilities leasing office, related parking and landscaping, and internal access roads.
Peter Schellinger of Santa Rosa is the project applicant and owner. In 2005 the city approved a 96-lot residential subdivision at the site, which includes the Parkside Subdivision next to Westside Community Park, built by his father and uncle.
The original project received a minor exception to allow parcels to be less than the minimum lot size required.
The project’s phase one consisted of 35 lots; of those, 14 were constructed with homes and 20 lots remain vacant but available for development, staff reported.
The city said the project’s phase two and three did not submit for a final map and were never developed, although they continued to be disked annually for weed abatement.
The report said, “There are certain items from the approval of the original Parkside Subdivision that need to be reviewed and potentially addressed, such as the avoidance of disturbing Forbes Creek, the establishment of a Lighting and Landscape Maintenance District, construction and dedication of road and streets development, and appurtenant facilities. It is appropriate to identify and include such items with the processing and final design layout of the Tentative Map.”
Six acres of the property is proposed to be rezoned from R-1, low-density residential, to R-3, high density residential, with the remaining parcel proposed to be rezoned from R-1 to planned development combining district.
Staff also is recommending approval of the Schellinger project.
The commission is next scheduled to meet on Wednesday, Sept. 14.
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