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GPAC hears LAPAC recommendations on community growth boundaries; staff says Lower Lake water district can add about 10 new connections
Summary
PlaceWorks and staff presented LAPAC‑recommended community growth boundary amendments (Kelseyville, Lower Lake). County staff reported the Lower Lake Water District has capacity for roughly 10 additional single‑family connections; LAPAC recommendations were informational only and no action was taken at this meeting.
Sonia Sundbergen of PlaceWorks briefed the General Plan Advisory Committee on recommended changes to community growth boundaries forwarded by local area planning advisory committees (LAPACs). The LAPAC proposals shown to GPAC were informational only; GPAC was not asked to vote on them at this meeting.
Sundbergen described two LAPAC recommendations highlighted at the meeting: a northwestern expansion of the Kelseyville community growth boundary (the mapped area includes lands currently designated agriculture on the west side and industrial on the east side) and a southeastern expansion of the Lower Lake growth boundary into an area now designated suburban residential reserve. The Kelseyville suggestions included areas already rezoned or designated for industrial uses in prior planning actions; staff noted one expansion parcel had already been amended in the county planning record.
Separately, staff followed up on a February 13 GPAC request about water capacity for potential new residential connections in Lower Lake. County staff reported that the Lower Lake Water District has no current moratorium and said, in staff’s hypothetical check, the district could accommodate about 10 additional single‑family dwelling connections at this time. Staff emphasized that each new connection requires individual district approval when homes are built.
Property owner Michael Santarelli spoke to the committee about eight parcels near the Lower Lake boundary that he said already have seven homes connected to Lower Lake Water and are close to existing municipal services and paved roads. Santarelli asked the committee to consider adding his parcels to the community growth boundary in the future; staff answered that LAPAC and later GPAC review would be the vehicle for such a request.
The presentations were informational; staff said LAPAC recommendations (and any GPAC recommendations) will be transmitted to the Board of Supervisors for consideration. No GPAC action was taken on community growth boundary changes at this meeting.
Ending: Staff said the LAPAC proposals that have consensus will be forwarded to the Board of Supervisors; items without consensus will be scheduled for further review or left for Board consideration.
