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Lake County adopts CEQA addendum for South Main Street and Soda Bay Road widening and bike lanes
Summary
The Lake County Board adopted a CEQA addendum finding no new significant environmental impacts for the South Main Street–Soda Bay Road widening and bike lanes project, allowing limited nighttime construction and moving the project toward accessing roughly $10.5 million in STIP construction funding; the motion passed 5-0.
The Lake County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 18 adopted an addendum to the initial study and mitigated negative declaration for the South Main Street and Soda Bay Road widening and bike lanes project, allowing the county to evaluate nighttime construction and move ahead with final steps needed to seek construction funding.
Lars Ewing, interim public works director, told the board the corridor project runs from the Lakeport city limits along South Main Street through a portion of Soda Bay Road near the Lakeport Transfer Station and was the subject of a joint NEPA–CEQA review completed in 2012, with a General Plan conformity finding by the Lake County Planning Commission in 2013. Ewing said design is about "99% complete," nearly 50 right-of-way acquisitions have been secured with three properties remaining, and key permits are in hand or imminent: an Army Corps of Engineers…
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