Lompoc Planning Commission seeks cost details, redlined edits on 2030 circulation element

Lompoc — At its Nov. 12, 2025 meeting the Lompoc Planning Commission voted to ask staff to return with a detailed funding and cost analysis for projects referenced in the draft 2030 General Plan circulation element and to provide a redlined version showing edits and explanations of who made them and why.

Lori Tamura, the city’s contract planner, introduced the circulation element as part of the larger general plan update and said the package was included as an addendum to the 2010 environmental impact report. She told commissioners the circulation update was advanced in part because of the Streetscape Multimodal Improvement Plan adopted in July 2022 and a citywide safety study, and that the draft had been recirculated Sept. 17 for a 30-day review that ended Oct. 17 with no new written comments during the recirculation period.

Commissioners focused much of their discussion on how the city would pay for projects after the City Council’s May 2025 amendment…