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“Primary goal of the Cannonball Island restoration project is to restore and expand the natural estuarine functions and processes that promote recovery of habitat for native fish, invertebrates, wildlife, plant species, compatible with surrounding working lands and public access,” Planner Portia Salcedo said during the staff presentation. Salcedo summarized the work as including removal of an abandoned dwelling, deepening about 5,000 linear feet of existing dikes, construction of approximately 6,000 linear feet of setback levee with gated culverts, reconstruction or raising of about 2,500 feet of road, and installation of up to four graded culverts.

A local landowner, Peter Baer, who said he has farmed and lived in the area, registered concerns at the public hearing about loss of pasture, the potential for levees to impede flood conveyance to the ocean and the condition of Cannonball Island Road during construction. The CDFW representative said the agency had met with adjacent landowners, plans additional community meetings during design and has considered levee and gating designs intended to maintain tidal exchange and reduce saltwater intrusion into pasture. CDFW said some privately owned parcels are not suited to productive pasture today and that the project’s levee setbacks and gating are intended to protect and improve remaining pasture where feasible.

Commissioners asked about community outreach and the project’s potential road impacts; CDFW acknowledged further design work is needed, said it will continue neighbor consultations and acknowledged the county’s role on road repair obligations. During motion discussion a commissioner proposed explicitly requiring that Cannonball Island Road be returned to a condition equal to or better than its preconstruction condition at project completion; the commission added that language to the approval.

Staff recommended and the commission found the project eligible for a statutory CEQA exemption for restoration projects (SERP) and made the required findings for the conditional use permit. The commission adopted the resolution approving the CDFW Conditional Use Permit subject to staff’s conditions and the added road‑condition language. The vote was recorded by roll call as unanimous in favor.

The permit includes standard conditions on construction timing, best management practices, and mitigation measures identified in the staff report; final designs for levees, culverts and road improvements will be subject to later engineering review and any additional permits required by state or federal agencies.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Humboldt County Planning Commission Meeting of 2025-04-03","oneSentenceSummary","The commission approved a conditional‑use permit for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to restore tidal marsh and connected habitats at Cannonball Island, requiring the agency to leave the access road in equal or better condition after construction; nearby landowners expressed concerns about pasture loss and flood routing.","taxTitle","Humboldt County, California","taxId",12695,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6084001,"Commission approves Coy minor subdivision; grants exception to sidewalk frontage improvement",4235,4310000,8545000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2925081-4f5b4ec0f5f6a6205afd65d479e375b0&start=4310&end=8545","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2925081-4f5b4ec0f5f6a6205afd65d479e375b0/thumbnail_4310000.jpg","/articles/6084001/Humboldt-County/California/Commission-approves-Coy-minor-subdivision-grants-exception-to-sidewalk-frontage-improvement","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6084001-5cbad12d703119de80eb5a76205cf102/orig.mp4?Expires=1771096476&Signature=muerLlyYdkt-FmGT82UbF5tJKwM1CCVALtnQU~uMHE~YMbhUfm0nePGBAC5kOGdcG0TX5XXgwJhoz0qNfWhQduUOO-0~fD8nHOvi3FjlDgKKvmBipfAvlC2M9wwUOUdD796me4ipyY3X75CwSuja~UFcRDyY42HjQOIsP6YNYRDlh4iG8yLD65eExO1KHsXlSDuO4OoHFbIHO~y9c0Gdj2du9rXNQ0SSKZk~xJATUjoLJ7KzEAA3CNSo0apBxsXpNkDx54EzOUm-HV2FfSuJNiFpcp2nmWGZ8OqHbmGeEX8zu2JHSEj6D7b-zlfE0P~wd0AgdyfCjE3oE3f1h7epIw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Planning Commission approved the Coy Minor Subdivision in the Humboldt Hill area and granted the applicant’s exception request to the county’s standard requirement to install a sidewalk landscaping strip across the property frontage.

Planner Steve Lazar presented the staff report and explained the basic project: a lot split that separates a single‑family home and an accessory dwelling unit into two separate parcels in a subdivision originally approved in the 1950s. Lazar noted most of the subdivision is within an urbanized area and that under SB 9 ministerial lot‑split provisions some parcels could be eligible for ministerial splits, but this applicant requested an exception to frontage improvement requirements tied to the subdivision.

“Public Works has been consistent historically to require sidewalks wherever the conditions are met to be an urbanized environment,” Lazar told commissioners, but he also outlined circumstances that staff judged made the exception supportable in this case: the fragmented pattern of sidewalk installation in the neighborhood, steep grades along Skyline Drive that would make sidewalk installation impractical, mature vegetation and retaining walls that could be disturbed by a sidewalk alignment, and the long history of piecemeal development in the area.

Applicant representatives and the property owner John Coy spoke to those site constraints, saying sidewalk construction would remove mature shrubs and a retaining wall, require relocation of drainage inlets and be impractical on steep sections of Skyline Drive adjacent to the lot. “We would lose all of that. All that would be torn out,” Coy said of the vegetation and wall along the parcel frontage.

Several commissioners voiced differing perspectives. Some said the county’s general practice has been to require sidewalks as a public‑safety and connectivity improvement and favored a more consistent neighborhood approach; others said the site’s terrain and the age of the subdivision justified the exception and welcomed staff’s compromise. One commissioner suggested Public Works consider a neighborhood walkability plan if funding becomes available.

The commission voted in favor of the proposed minor subdivision and granted the exception to frontage improvements for this lot; the motion included staff’s recommended conditions of approval. The roll call recorded a majority in favor with two commissioners voting no; the motion carried.

Staff and commissioners asked Public Works to consider a broader walkability or pathway plan for the older Humboldt Hill subdivisions in the future; the commission did not impose additional neighborhood‑level requirements as part of this approval.","The commission approved a two‑lot split in Upper Humboldt Hill and granted the applicant an exception to a standard sidewalk/landscaping frontage requirement, citing neighborhood context and terrain; the decision drew mixed commissioner views and a recommendation to consider a neighborhood walkability study.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6084004,"Planning commission approves five interrelated cannabis permits in New Harris area",1006,3294000,4300000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2925081-4f5b4ec0f5f6a6205afd65d479e375b0&start=3294&end=4300","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2925081-4f5b4ec0f5f6a6205afd65d479e375b0/thumbnail_3294000.jpg","/articles/6084004/Humboldt-County/California/Planning-commission-approves-five-interrelated-cannabis-permits-in-New-Harris-area","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6084004-a6981e0ee1c0ed348deef056c5c891e2/orig.mp4?Expires=1771096476&Signature=iNYh69mlUT94ijTvOiQNe5zLK44INEGH6lFnFS97w4g3p0ligs3PJuBY2cG2FWzUk0sfW~O5Ht3AqJvorJoiFBYDSYvXxpC7qwiRpdUWjSdUalDdPIcOqLoApZPr0LtbSURqgoHzU6~jzw0ADST7q735aMQsa-lQaJrIt4M74~CKVgMJcLNwEHrDPhR7AupkQiLoXQMkVXMmgvqDwkg4ickVapE58sqNNGoYOahQlSfVbLf9FeYifCJSoUhDEzkCML-HWmpAUst~q3kXdr1nj41bJWcFdh8Ydq1IWn3pzQaj8rV8jBRMXrD-An8gjhLV3x37uMgit1BMRAz1iZbDyQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Humboldt County Planning Commission approved four conditional‑use permits and one special permit for five cannabis cultivation projects in the New Harris area, projects that staff said are interrelated by shared irrigation ponds and a shared processing location.

“Here are the five projects — they share an irrigation system, the three rainwater ponds that make up the backbone of the irrigation system, and they all process their harvested cannabis on the same parcel,” Senior Planner Steven Santos told the commission during the staff presentation. Santos said the parcels share water infrastructure and that one parcel already has an approved processing structure; the other permits were conditioned to prevent processing on adjacent parcels until the processing parcel’s existing conditions are satisfied.

Santos summarized the five applications (project numbers 13336, 13337, 13367, 13365 and 13374) and recommended adding a condition to four of the projects to match language included in the supplemental materials for the project that required the processing site to meet its previously approved conditions before any processing occurs on the shared parcel. One of the five (13336) was processed under a different chapter of the county cannabis code because it converts existing outdoor to mixed‑light cultivation and it was the only parcel referred to BLM, which raised northern spotted owl habitat concerns; the applicant supplied a registered professional forester’s documentation and the county determined the closest cultivation areas are at least 900 feet from BLM land and beyond the county’s 600‑foot threshold.

Staff reported no written public comment on the cluster of projects and the applicant’s representative told the commission they were available if commissioners had questions. The permits include standard conditions that require a transition away from generators to renewable energy or PG&E service; staff said if documentation shows a parcel has PG&E service the condition can be satisfied.

A commissioner asked staff to correct a square‑footage typo in one draft resolution prior to finalization; staff acknowledged the error. The commission approved all five projects together and included staff’s recommended additional condition consistent with the supplemental documents.

The permits were approved on a voice vote with no roll‑call tally recorded in the meeting minutes. The approvals include conditions addressing wastewater, power, groundwater and easements for shared irrigation infrastructure; the processing facility already has conditions that must be satisfied before processing can occur.

The projects’ files reference county environmental documents: a final environmental impact report for the project approved under the county’s CCLUO chapter and MND/addenda for the projects under the other chapter. The approvals require applicants to satisfy standard permitting conditions and to demonstrate compliance with energy and wastewater conditions before operation begins.","The commission approved four conditional‑use permits and one special permit for five cultivation sites in New Harris that share rainwater catchment ponds and a processing location, adding a condition linking processing to completion of preexisting permitting requirements.",{"_33":100,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":101,"_41":102,"_43":103,"_45":104,"_47":105,"_49":106,"_51":107,"_53":108,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":109,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":110,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6084009,"Planning commission approves Fisher subdivision in McKinleyville with drainage condition",2580,600000,3180000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2925081-4f5b4ec0f5f6a6205afd65d479e375b0&start=600&end=3180","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2925081-4f5b4ec0f5f6a6205afd65d479e375b0/thumbnail_600000.jpg","/articles/6084009/Humboldt-County/California/Planning-commission-approves-Fisher-subdivision-in-McKinleyville-with-drainage-condition","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6084009-9492ddd241165ce83d5c10026261d02f/orig.mp4?Expires=1771096476&Signature=R40zg2VMsKA5hN4xxzdbQMeZlxr9q7-J5~0v5CVguzEfQMp4~~R5cZiJiqv69DWqwScwN~2T0eKHxGkWSeziaDXbbkQjeRz2LWwfcVZ8k6ZknGVzPgieEZbGARvcWtomKMkpbFBUF99YOATpkmm0l2cLFD0GPPLEnvM66l7h8EmrQT3uAHswwfU-Sy6Q3a7Tw41y0JARIIe7agGkIYAWcjJhcLo4gyoK-MHNNi-TOSkAEEfkqMxJMcJBRKdCDHADeRRwvJgeay2PvieT-QrXq5YlcMWbobio~fmRXO81mFTcjqw8HyQpClCC23E4dIGr8FNenIiq7psYADuNXGjLqw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Humboldt County Planning Commission on April 3 approved the Fisher partial‑map subdivision in McKinleyville, adopting a coastal development permit and a special permit and imposing conditions that require a drainage inlet across Fisher Avenue and allow deletion of a landscaping strip at staff’s recommendation.

Staff said the project would split a roughly 49,250‑square‑foot parcel into two lots — Parcel 1 at about 35,950 square feet and Parcel 2 at about 13,300 square feet — and that the reduced size of Parcel 2 triggers a special‑permit review. “This property is located in McKinleyville, a little bit north of the Mad River, about 400 feet north of the School Road and Fisher Avenue intersection,” Senior Planner Chris Lohefter told the commission during the staff presentation.

The staff report recommended approval conditioned on public‑works requirements, including installing a drainage inlet on the west side of Fisher Avenue that would run under the road and tie to an existing drainage inlet on the east side to carry water south along Fisher Avenue. Public Works advised against an applicant‑proposed alternative that would convey road runoff onto the new private lot.

Applicant and property owner Dave Mazurve told the commission he planned to accept responsibility for runoff generated by the new curb, gutter and sidewalk, and proposed a 6‑inch pipe and an on‑site leach area instead of the county’s recommended 18‑inch drain. “I’m perfectly willing to cooperate with the county on putting in a drain onto my property,” Mazurve said, but added he did not believe his subdivision should be required to accept runoff from the public road. A neighbor who spoke by phone said she supports Public Works’ recommended solution and expressed concern about ponding in front of her driveway.

Commission discussion focused on whether the drainage required by Public Works could be redesigned during the engineering review to avoid conflicts with underground utilities, and on the relatively modest size of the subdivision and the role of the existing accessory dwelling unit. Staff told commissioners the engineering phase could allow alternative pipe configurations if utilities precluded the county’s preferred detail.

The commission voted to adopt the resolution approving the Fisher Partial‑Map Subdivision, Coastal Development Permit and Special Permit, including the staff‑recommended conditions and elimination of the landscaping strip requirement. The motion carried on a roll‑call voice vote with commissioners voting in favor as recorded in the meeting minutes.

The approval requires the applicant to satisfy final engineering review and Public Works permitting before the map is recorded; Public Works will review pipe sizing and alignment during that design phase. The project record includes the McKinleyville drainage study cited by Public Works as background for the requirement.

Action on the project was limited to the findings and conditions presented; no building permits or grading were approved as part of the tentative‑map action.

Commissioners and staff flagged that if the engineering design shows utilities or other constraints make Public Works’ preferred pipe infeasible, alternative pipe shapes and configurations (for example flat arch or box pipes) could be proposed and reviewed during the permitting stage.","The Humboldt County Planning Commission approved a two‑lot subdivision, a coastal development permit and a special permit for a McKinleyville property, but required a road drainage inlet and kept other public‑works conditions after neighbors and the applicant disputed where runoff originates.","actionData","errors"]

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