LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lake County Vector Control's requests for rezoning and a general plan amendment on its lakeside properties will go before the Lakeport City Council this week.
The council will meet beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
Under council business, Community Development Director Kevin Ingram will present the general plan amendment and zone changes for Lake County Vector Control.
At its Jan. 14 meeting, the Lakeport Planning Commission voted to recommend that the council approve the requested general plan amendment and zone change and adopt the recommended mitigated negative declaration associated with the project, as Lake County News has reported, www.bit.ly/1BaxJJ4 .
Ingram's report for the meeting explains that the council is being asked to initiate proceedings and set the second hearing for Vector Control's requests for April 7.
Vector Control wants to change the zoning on properties it owns at 408 and 410 Esplanade St. and 35 C St. Ingram's report said 410 Esplanade would change from residential to public civic use, while 408 Esplanade and 35 C St. would be changed from resort residential to public civic use.
Vector Control District Manager Jamie Scott told Lake County News in a January interview that the steps now being taken with the city are part of the district's preliminary plans to improve its existing facilities.
Proposed improvements include removing the existing laboratory and operations building at 410 Esplanade and replacing it with a new facility that includes a unified workspace and laboratory, Scott said.
Vector Control's neighbors have raised issues with the plans over their concerns about chemicals, the appropriateness of the district being located in a lakeside neighborhood and requirements that the district didn't follow more than a decade ago regarding a previous project.
Also on Tuesday, in public presentations, Mark Ferguson of the Redwood Empire Municipal Insurance Fund, or REMIF, will present information to the council regarding self-insurance.
The California Highway Patrol will present a certificate of achievement to the city of Lakeport in recognition of the city achieving two consecutive “satisfactory” ratings in the Biennial Inspection of Terminals program since Oct. 3, 2013.
On the meeting's consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are ordinances; the warrant registers from Feb. 10 and 20; minutes from the Feb. 17 council meeting; approval of Application 2015-005 for Future Pros for their annual Future Pros Bass Championship Tournament to be held in Library Park; and adoption of a resolution authorizing the acquisition of 2025 S. Main St., Lakeport, for a new police headquarters and authorizing the city manager to execute the escrow document.
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