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Recent land-use coverage from The Sidekick network, including local decisions, public meetings, and civic updates.
The 5-0 vote allows qualifying cultivation in newer nonresidential buildings in four resource-zoning districts while retaining existing performance standards.
The Oct. 27 public hearing will consider an appeal of a proposed truck yard, office and repair shop at 8220 Garden Highway; the agenda does not indicate the appeal’s outcome.
The 4-1 vote limits the exemption to facilities generating all their renewable power on site and using a closed-loop system; a separate redwood-tree moratorium was removed before consideration.
The City Council adopted an interim ordinance extending the moratorium for 10 months and 15 days beyond the initial 45-day period while officials study possible siting standards.
The 4-1 vote allows the city manager to sign an agreement for the 0.33-acre Medina parcel, subject to City Attorney approval, while the revised $30,040 deposit differs from the staff packet’s $6,080 estimate.
Commissioners unanimously approved the Black Dog Partnership project’s local permits and environmental documents Oct. 1, while recommending that supervisors approve related land-use changes.
The Oct. 7 agenda recommends approving a two-parcel map at 2962 Elm Street while deferring curb, gutter, sidewalk and driveway improvements under an agreement with property owner Jose Guadalupe Medina.
The Oct. 6 agenda calls for urgency ordinances covering unincorporated areas; each requires a four-fifths vote, and the agenda does not show an outcome.
The proposed Pleasant Grove warehouse would provide 51 parking spaces instead of the 65 required under the county’s standard calculation, with roadway, drainage and floodplain conditions attached.
The Planning Commission voted 5-0 to recommend Board of Supervisors approval of the warehouse amendment, with conditions for parking, roadway improvements, drainage and flood protection.
The Sept. 29 agenda includes a proposed $10 surcharge, countywide accessory-dwelling-unit code changes and a minor amendment for a 130,219-square-foot warehouse.
The 2026-31 plan identifies 25 potential actions and five near-term priorities, but implementation staffing and funding still need to be worked out.
Staff presented Ordinance 1594 as an urgency measure to give the city time to study potential public-health effects and land-use rules, but the available meeting record does not clearly establish the ordinance’s final status.
A Sept. 15 staff report said the board should remove Kerns, declare the seat vacant and later appoint Butler to the remainder of the term through January 2029.
The Aug. 11 board meeting broadened a Lower Redway tree-protection fight into a countywide ordinance push, with staff also asked to return with a temporary moratorium proposal.
The City Council’s Sept. 1 agenda includes Bill No. 1061-C.S., an urgency ordinance moratorium on data centers, but the agenda does not show what happened at the meeting.
Supervisors are being asked to open a public hearing on a zoning amendment that would replace the county’s existing accessory dwelling unit section.
The Planning Commission did not decide the McKinleyville tower proposal, instead asking for stronger side-by-side material on the Lily Road site and the Letts Avenue alternative.
The Assembly concurred in SB 344 on a 61-2 vote, moving forward a project-specific environmental measure for the San Diego development amid debate over housing and CEQA.
Council members discussed a possible short-term moratorium while staff studies how the city should regulate data centers.
The council opened the public hearing on the Waley House rehabilitation and lot split, then continued it to Sept. 16 after staff found missing exhibits in the packet.
The Sept. 1 agenda also includes a public hearing on zoning changes for about 750 acres and other board actions.
The Planning Commission is set to review staff's draft inland low-impact camping ordinance, which would allow small-scale camping on private rural land in unincorporated Humboldt County.
The Planning Commission packet shows a 130,219-square-foot warehouse project at 7234 Pacific Ave moving forward with reduced parking, right-of-way dedication and other conditions before supervisors take final action.