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Planning commission modifies 2025 Measure D recommendations, directs city council on transfers
Summary
The Half Moon Bay Planning Commission reviewed and amended staff recommendations for the 2025 Measure D allocation process, reallocating two allocations from a downtown applicant to outside‑downtown proposals at the score cutoff and asking City Council to consider September transfers for remaining downtown allocations.
The Half Moon Bay Planning Commission reviewed Measure D 2025 allocation scoring and ratification and took multiple actions that alter staff’s initial recommendations.
Planning staff reported 47 allocation requests outside downtown for 22 available outside‑downtown allocations. Staff recommended ratifying 11 projects totaling 22 allocations and asked the commission to resolve 1 remaining allocation where the next applicant requested two allocations but only one remained.
Applicants and members of the public asked the commission to rescind or rescore specific applications. Kevin and Colton Palmer asked that staff rescore their duplex-with-two-ADUs application for an apparent checklist interpretation issue. Connor French and Katie Barnes, applicants for 460 Poplar, asked the commission to award the final available allocation to…
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