Lake Area Comprehensive Plan / Environmental Assessment (LACP/EA)

The purpose of the LACP/EA is to enhance visitor experience and employee working and living conditions while preserving the natural, cultural, and visual resources in the Lake Area by setting desired future conditions for resources and visitor experience and guiding development while minimizing impacts to resources. The basis for the comprehensive plan originates from ongoing and future changes to natural systems, improvements needed in pedestrian and vehicular circulation, changing visitor and employee facilities, and to provide guidance for future development.

In Alternative A, the No Action alternative, park managers would continue to rely on direction from the 1974 Master Plan, 1988 Fishing Bridge Development Concept Plan, and the 1993 Lake/Bridge Bay Development Concept Plan for planning guidance in the Lake Area. Projects from these plans that have not been completed are analyzed in this alternative, which would result in a net increase of 127,000 square feet (2.9 acres) in building footprint and 270,000 square feet (6.2 acres) net increase in pavement.

Alternative B, the Preferred Alternative, proposes moderate development in the Lake Area in order to better meet resource and visitor issues and needs. This alternative provides planning zones, prescriptions, design standards, and projects that guide a net gain of 121,000 square feet (2.8 acres) of building development and 430,400 square feet (9.9 acres, mostly within the existing footprint of the Fishing Bridge RV Park) of pavement.

Alternative C also proposes moderate development in the Lake Area to better meet resource and visitor issues and needs. However, it accomplishes this with planning prescriptions and projects that are different from Alternative B and guide a net gain of 116,000 square feet (2.7 acres) in building development and 586,000 square feet (13.5 acres, mostly within the existing footprint of the Fishing Bridge RV Park) in pavement.

Document Content:

Executive Summary   (3.0 MB, PDF file) Chapter 1   (708.0 KB, PDF file) Chapter 2   (4.9 MB, PDF file) Chapter 3   (2.1 MB, PDF file) Chapter 4   (616.0 KB, PDF file) Chapter 5 and Appendix A   (641.9 KB, PDF file) Appendix B   (3.7 MB, PDF file) Appendix C   (3.8 MB, PDF file) Appendices D and E   (586.8 KB, PDF file) Disclaimer: Links within the above document(s) were valid as of the date published. Note: Some of the files may be in PDF format and can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader software. You may download a free copy of from Adobe Systems.