Jan Lucca will ask the Historic Preservation Review Commission on Thursday to approve some minor alterations to a vacant lot at 116 West E St. so he can build a new outdoor restaurant.

Associate Planner Suzanne Thorsen wrote in a report to the HPRC that the site is between Lucca’s established restaurant, Lucca’s Bar and Grill, and the Peregrine Landing building. The lot already has a walkway and a stand-alone refuse enclosure Lucca uses for his bar and grill. A few mature trees grow there as well, she wrote.

Lucca is proposing live music, table food service, an outdoor barbecue and pizza oven and a beverage service bar, she wrote. Under Town Core District regulations the restaurant would be allowed to have amplified music from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily except Sundays and legal holidays.

Thorsen wrote that Lucca has asked to fence the perimeter in redwood, with a double entry and trellis along West E Street. Though the restaurant would operate as a stand-alone establishment, it also would offer access to the Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant entrance and restrooms in Lucca Bar and Grill.

Thorsen is recommending approval.

The commission also will review the Benicia Mills Act Compliance Report, which describes completed and ongoing projects of homeowners who have contracts with the city to keep or restore their historic properties by specific standards in exchange for lower property taxes.

Of the 37 affected, one, at 441 West J St., still needs some windows replaced, and another, at 395 West J St., has not completed landscaping requirements because of ongoing repairs.

The panel also will review its priority list of discussion items.

The Historic Preservation Review Commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Commission Room of City Hall, 250 East L St.

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