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Recent land-use coverage from The Sidekick network, including local decisions, public meetings, and civic updates.
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.
The Planning Commission voted 7-0 to reject a special permit to remove an old-growth redwood in Lower Redway, leaving the tree standing for now.
At a July 16 workshop, commissioners moved the Humboldt Bay Area Plan update forward while signaling that any future port overlay for Samoa will face separate review and later hearings.
The June 17 approval clears the way for a restaurant-bar, fitness center, pools and event space at Lakeside at Sutter Pointe Phase 1.
The Planning Commission signed off on revised conditions for the Sutter winery, allowing expanded events and classes and changes to parking, signage and operating-hour rules.
The board adopted a housing-element implementation ordinance that changes zoning standards in designated housing opportunity areas along Highway 101.
The Planning Commission agenda puts two countywide housing-code amendments before Sutter County commissioners, including changes for special-needs housing and broader zoning and housing code updates.
The board is weighing a narrow cleanup amendment that would extend a missed fee deadline and make a 2023 zoning approval operative.
A planning commission resolution recommends giving the Johnson Family Trust more time to pay filing fees tied to a 2023 zoning change that never took effect.
At a May 20 planning meeting, staff said the Board of Supervisors had removed the use-permit requirement for truck yards in M1 and M2 zones, shifting them toward by-right development.
Staff backed Robert Scarlett’s special permit for a towering tree in the Lower Redway Q-zone, while speakers urged commissioners to deny the request.
The board agenda bundles the county’s annual appropriations-limit action with the FY 2026-27 budget resolution, a drought plan, AB 481 compliance items and several land-use decisions.
The Planning Commission amended the Takhar permit so paving is now limited to employee parking areas, with the deadline pushed to June 30, 2027.
In closed session, the Eureka City Council authorized the city attorney to file a receivership in the 25 Wabash Street case, with Councilmember Castellano voting no.