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Lakeport City Council to hear appeal for Dollar General store project
The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 15, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
On the Tuesday agenda is the appeal by Cross Development of the planning commission’s July 12 decision to deny an application for architectural and design review for a 9,100-square-foot Dollar General store at 1405 S. Main St.
Cross Development has built Dollar General stores in Clearlake Oaks and Nice. Its plan for a store in Middletown has been denied by both the Lake County Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors, with the firm now proposing to build a 7,500-square-foot store, which would put it under the 8,000-square-foot threshold that triggers the major use permit process.
Unlike the county, Lakeport’s planning rules don’t have thresholds for higher levels of review triggered by square footage, according to a statement from Community Development Director Kevin Ingram at the July meeting.
However, the commission denied the store proposal on the basis of concerns that it didn’t qualify for a categorical exemption from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, as staff had suggested and that the application, therefore, wasn’t complete.
Staff said CEQA guidelines allow exemptions for development on parcels less than five acres substantially surrounded by urban uses, which are consistent with the general plan and zoning, determined to have no impacts on rare, threatened and endangered species, and no traffic, noise, air quality or water quality impacts.
If the council were to grant the appeal and find that the project qualifies for the categorical exemption, it would send the store plan back to the planning commission to consider the architectural and design review application’s adequacy.
Also on Tuesday, the council will consider adopting a resolution to formally declare an end to the stage one water emergency and to address ongoing water conservation efforts by restricting wasteful practices.
In other business, the council will consider approving a Gann limit revision for a corrected appropriations limit of $11,852,201 in Fiscal Year 2017-18 and $11,463,663 in Fiscal Year 2016-2017; receive a donation from the Lake County Chamber of Commerce for the
annual fireworks show in Library Park; and hear a presentation by the promoters of the 2017 Downtown Lakeport Criterium, which was held July 15.
Items on the consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are ordinances; minutes of the regular council meeting on July 18 and the special council meetings on July 24 and Aug. 8; the warrant register of July 24; approval of Application No. 2017-028, with staff recommendations, for the Recovery Happens event to be held Sept. 16 in Library Park; receipt and filing of the draft minutes of the July 31 Measure Z Advisory Committee meeting; and approval and authorization for the city manager to execute a professional services agreement with Polestar Computers for the provision of IT support services.
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