Lakeport Council looks to approve housing resolution

LAKEPORT >> The Lakeport City Council is considering passing a resolution for the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) during their upcoming meeting tonight.

This will be a step towards ensuring everyone has a fair chance of finding housing in Lakeport.

If they pass this resolution, it means Lakeport is promising to work hard to fix any unfair housing situations and make neighborhoods more mixed and balanced.

This is in support of the Fair Housing Act and California Assembly Bill (AB) 686.

The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, and national origin. Over time, the law expanded its protections to include discrimination based on sex, disability, and familial status. The law also introduced the need to go beyond just prohibiting discrimination to instead affirmatively creating real housing choice by affirmatively furthering fair housing.

The passage of AB 686 protects the requirement to affirmatively further fair housing within California state law, regardless of future federal actions.

It also preserves the strong policy in the U.S. Department of Housing and Community Development's (HUD), Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule as published in the Federal Register in 2015.

In other council business, they will also consider approving the plans for the South Main Street Sidewalk Project.

According to the staff report, the project is located at various locations on South Main St. from D Street to just south of Konocti Ave. The work involves the removal of tree stumps, excavation of embankment, removing and replacing concrete curb, gutter, sidewalk and installing ADA compliant curb ramps.

The city is looking to award the project to T&T Paving Inc. dba Valley Paving for $334,279.15. Construction is estimated to start at the end of May and be completed by August.