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Siskiyou supervisors ask staff to draft temporary-use and emergency-process ordinance
Summary
Supervisors directed county planning staff to draft an ordinance creating an expediated administrative temporary-use permit process and clarifying the county's declared-emergency authority after officials said current land-use rules make short-term response work lengthy and costly.
Supervisors on the Siskiyou County Board on Oct. 7 asked Community Development and Planning staff to draft an ordinance that would create an easier administrative path for temporary uses and clarify how declared emergencies work for short-term operations.
The move followed public discussion about a recent emergency power-pole replacement in Scott Valley, where county land-use rules made temporary storage and other short-term operations difficult to approve, a supervisor said during the meeting.
Why it matters: County officials and staff said the current code is written around longer-term, permanent land uses. That means a temporary contractor yard or short-term storage tied to an emergency often requires noticed hearings and planning…
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