MCC Regular Meeting: March 27, 2024

MCC Regular Meeting Agenda for Wednesday, March 27, 2024.

The meeting will be conducted both in person at Granada Community Services District, 504 Avenue Alhambra, 3rd Floor, El Granada, CA, and remotely as a telephone and video conference via Zoom (link). We encourage remote participation. Instructions for accessing the meeting and for making comments are available on the Agenda.

Agenda & supporting materials:
3. Minutes for 2/21, 2/28, 3/10/2024
4a. Seton Coastside Hospital update
4b. Rancho Corral de Tierra update: Help Plan the Future of Rancho Corral de Tierra
4c. Montara Mountain - Draft letter
5. Correspondence received:
3/20/24 County Parks Response to 12/13/23 MCC request for information re pesticide (herbicide) use in SMC Parks.

Future Agendas: Herbicides; Stormwater

UPDATE: 3/27/24 meeting video & minutes

MCC SPECIAL Meeting: SUNDAY March 10, 2024 - 4:00pm

MCC SPECIAL Meeting Agenda for SUNDAY, March 10, 2024 at 4:00pm

The meeting will be conducted both in person at Granada Community Services District, 504 Avenue Alhambra, 3rd Floor, El Granada, CA, and remotely as a telephone and video conference via Zoom (link). We encourage remote participation. Instructions for accessing the meeting and for making comments are available on the Agenda.

Agenda & supporting materials:
1. Cypress Point - FINAL Letter - County Memo on No CEQA - Staff Report (90mb)

UPDATE: 3/10/24 meeting video

Cypress Point Affordable Housing 3/13/2024 Hearing of SMC Planning Commission

At a special evening meeting on the Coastside, in-person only,

Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 6:00-9:00 pm (end time is an estimate)
at the Gate House at Oceano Hotel in Princeton

San Mateo County Planning Commission will consider a General Plan Land Use Map Amendment, a Coastal Development Permit, and Grading Permit, to construct the Cypress Point affordable housing community composed of 71 affordable housing units, contained in 16 two-story buildings, and a community building, in the Moss Beach area of San Mateo County.  The Planning Commission will make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors who will consider project approval at a future meeting.  This project is not appealable to the California Coastal Commission.

Agenda and supporting documents are here.  Included in the staff report as Attachment C is memo from Planning Director re application of CEQA exemption established by AB 1449 to Cypress Point Affordable Housing Project.  The project must be consistent with the applicable provisions of the SMC General Plan, Local Coastal Program, and Zoning/Grading Regulations, discussed in the staff report, to be posted by March 7.  For informational purposes, the memo also contains general responses to the primary issues and concerns in public comments received.

Instructions on commenting, written or in person, are found in the agenda. Correspondence received for the meeting will also be posted.
(The Gate House is the separate one-story building behind the Brewing Company.)

Project history and source documents going back to 2016 are compiled here.

UPDATE 3/13/2024: Planning Commission recommended approval 4-0 — Video.
UPDATE 3/26/2024: Board of Supervisors approved 5-0.

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION: MCC Regular Meeting March 13, 2024

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Regular Meeting of the Midcoast Community Council scheduled to be held on March 13, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. has been CANCELLED. Instead there will be a Special Meeting on Sunday, March 10 at 4:00pm on the Cypress Point project to be announced separately.
The Planning Commission will hold a hearing on Cypress Point on March 13th, with details here.
The next Regular Meeting of the Council is scheduled to be held on March 27, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.

Peninsula Resilience Planning Virtual Public Workshops

Public engagement efforts are getting underway for the County’s General Plan Safety Element called the Peninsula Resilience Planning Project.  There will be two Virtual Community Workshops to kick off the project to learn about the communities’ thoughts and experiences with flooding, wildfire, earthquakes, landslides, extreme heat, and other severe weather or natural hazards.  Flyer (English/Español). 
The workshops are the same -- no need to attend both.

Workshop #1 - March 13, 2024, 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location: online, register here

Workshop #2 - April 3, 2024, 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location: online, register here

Mapping of natural hazards and other relevant data can be found on the online map viewer, accessible through the website or directly here.