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Commission approves Life Plan Humboldt subdivision but delays full Hiller Road widening, requires interim buffered bike lane and directs county to seek funding
Summary
Planning commissioners approved the Life Plan Humboldt subdivision and wetland mitigation plan but rejected the developer’s request to immediately widen and pave Hiller Road. Instead they approved staff’s recommendation as modified: a five‑year deferral with bonding, an interim buffered bike lane to be striped by the county, flexibility on lane widths to be finalized by local advisory bodies, and a county effort to seek grant funding.
The Humboldt County Planning Commission voted to approve the Life Plan Humboldt tentative map, associated wetland consolidation and restoration plan, and special permit for adaptive management of created wetlands, but declined the applicant’s request to require immediate widening and pavement of Hiller Road as proposed in the McKinleyville Town Center cross‑section.
Staff presentation: Planner Michael Holterman summarized the 15‑acre tentative map that would create a roughly 13‑acre and a 2‑acre lot, and described the wetland mitigation plan calling for creation of approximately 28,000 square feet of parameter wetland at a 1.5:1 ratio with five years of monitoring and adaptive management. County surveyor Bob Bronl outlined the public‑works expectation that frontage improvements on Hiller Road include curb, gutter, 8‑ft sidewalks and other elements of…
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