Public comment on the Lake County 2050 General Plan

The draft Lake County 2050 General Plan is out for public review. This is the county’s blueprint for the next 25 years. It decides where funding goes and which projects get built. The drafts name Cole Creek as a “primary source of flooding,” but stop there. They don’t recognize the Cole Creek Collaborative’s work or mandate the fixes we need. We submitted a public comment pushing for concrete changes: priority funding for Green Acres, mandated channel maintenance, evacuation-constrained mapping for our flooded roads, and the Collaborative as the county’s template for restoring channelized creeks.

The county needs to hear from more of us. Take the survey (English, Spanish) and advocate for Cole Creek flood control in the open text boxes. Email a public comment to LakeCounty2050@lakecountyca.gov. Even a short note about how flooding affects you or your neighbors makes a difference. The September 2025 RFP proved that when we speak up, the county listens.