CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The third in a series of community meetings on Clearlake's new general plan will be held early next month.
The meeting will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 9, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.
The meeting will focus on different land use and policy alternatives in the general plan, which is a “blueprint” document for the city's future growth, goals and policies.
Previous meetings in the process were held last October and November, as Lake County News has reported. A final plan is expected to be completed this summer.
Thanks to a grant from the Lake County/City Area Planning Council grant, the city has been able to hire a team consisting of graduate students with the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s City and Regional Planning Department to prepare a general plan circulation document and a general plan.
The Cal Poly team reported that since the last general plan meeting they have finalized and submitted a background report that contains all the research on Clearlake that the Cal Poly team has done.
That report is up for public review on a Web site set up for the Clearlake general plan process, www.planclearlake.weebly.com .
The city's current general plan is about 30 years old, and well out of date, according to City Manager Joan Phillipe.
The cost for the graduate students' work is $40,000, a fraction of what it would cost the city to hire a consultant, Phillipe told the Clearlake City Council last fall.
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