City of Lake City
Updated: Meeting on affordable housing project cancelled
Apr 28, 2021
Editor's note: The meeting for May 3 has been canceled. The Lake City City Council plans to revisit the issue at its regular May meeting.
Three Rivers Community Action is holding a public informational meeting regarding their proposal to build a multi-family housing project in Lake City on Monday...
Trailers on the move at Marina Point
Apr 21, 2021
The scene is being set for construction at Ohuta Park.
The process of moving seven vacation trailers from along the inner harbor to newly constructed sites on Marina Point began on Friday of last week, according to Megan Smith, Planning and Community Engagement Director for the City of Lake City...
More details emerge on potential affordable housing project
Apr 21, 2021
A public meeting on a potential affordable housing project at the former Cemstone site in Lake City will take place Monday, May 3, at 6 p.m. on Zoom.
Named Underwood Terrace after Anna Underwood, one of Lake City’s early leading citizens, the proposed 32-unit complex would be a mix of one-, two-,...
Green Step program aims to improve sustainability, quality of life
Apr 21, 2021
In April 2019 Lake City joined the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) GreenStep Cities program. The idea to create a sustainable cities program was taken up by the 2008 Minnesota Legislature, which directed the MPCA to recommend actions cities could accomplish voluntarily to achieve...
City lowers lifeguard age limit to 15
Apr 14, 2021
A potential lifeguard shortage at O’Neil Community Swimming Pool in Lake City this summer has prompted the city council to lower its required age for lifeguards to 15.
The city is looking to hire 16 lifeguards to work at the pool this summer after the Red Wing YMCA informed the city that it would...
City to manage pool operations this summer
Apr 7, 2021
The City of Lake City is hiring lifeguards and a pool manager as the city prepares to assume management of the O’Neil Community Swimming Pool this summer.
City officials had been planning for the Red Wing YMCA to once again manage the pool after what the city deemed a successful first summer in...
Utility late fees, disconnections set to resume
Apr 7, 2021
Last year, as the pandemic worsened, the City of Lake City suspended late fees and disconnections for utility customers that were past due.
On March 8 city staff informed the City Council that the city intends to begin notifying customers with past-due balances that late fee charges and...
City compost site reopens with new sticker system
Mar 31, 2021
It was quieter than expected Friday at the Lake City compost site, the first day the site was open this year.
The site has undergone physical and policy changes since closing last fall.
The entrance and exit “has been improved to make things flow a little better,” Scott Jensen, Lake City’s public...
City should bear full cost of pickleball courts
Mar 31, 2021
I do not understand why the Lake City City Council decided not to pay for the total replacement of the pickleball courts. The city stole the playing area for another purpose.
Pickleball, a fun, recreational game named after a dog – Pickles, is played all over the United States. But I guess not in...
Thankful for leadership on Ohuta Park
Mar 31, 2021
We’ve lived in Lake City now for 45 years and we can’t say how pleased and excited we are for the new Ohuta Park project. Thanks to leadership, City Council and everyone working for and with the city to get this important improvement accomplished.
It will be a new focal point that can be used...
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