Timber ordinance extension on tap
Humboldt County supervisors will consider on Tuesday extending a controversial moratorium on issuing permits to build on land zoned for timber production.
The staff report reads that since the board isn't meeting on Nov. 13 or Nov. 20, it has to consider the extension before the ordinance runs out on Nov. 24. The report recommends an extension for 90 more days, while the planning commission works to hammer out permanent rules for building in the timber production zone, or TPZ.
If it's not extended, county staff maintains, issuing building permits received during the gap between the new ordinance and the initial temporary ordinance could have substantial unintended consequences....
...Staff has scheduled a Forest Review Committee hearing to discuss a slate of changes to the existing county policy on building in TPZ. That meeting, on Wednesday, will go over proposed changes to make it necessary to show that any home built in TPZ must be necessary for managing the forest; must have water storage sufficient to carry the residence through dry periods and prevent drawing down streams; and is compatible with adjacent landowners' habitat conservation plans, among others.
Those recommendations would be passed to the planning commission for a Nov. 15 meeting. The Board of Supervisors would hear the commission's recommendations on Dec. 11.
In the meantime, said the Humboldt Watershed Council's Mark Lovelace, there is a concern that people may take advantage of the gap to file permit applications that wouldn't meet the standards set by future ordinances.
”There's a concern that people will file anything to have their foot in the door,” Lovelace said.
That last statement is really astounding. Are we really going to govern that way? ...there is a concern that people may take advantage of the gap to file permit applications that wouldn't meet the standards set by future ordinances.
Man. That's amazing. I'm stunned.
IF YOU GO:
What: TPZ proposed emergency ordinance extension
Where: Humboldt County Courthouse
When: Tuesday, 1:30 p.m.
I have a question for the "legal beagles" reading this post: How does the proposed ordinance impact the "Owner-Builder" permits in the areas of the county not served by PG&E and telephone utilities? Will all of the residences along the Klamath river both on an off the reservation be forcibly demolished?
ReplyDeleteYes Rose, that is amazing...we're worried about people breaking a future law. Mark L. please read "1984" and if that is too much see the Tom Cruise movie "minority report". Maybe he is working for the Ministry of Truth?
ReplyDeleteGood suggestion.
ReplyDeleteWhat is says to me is the Planning Dept. has already decided on what the General Plan is going to say and be - and all these "listening tours" are a sham, going through the motions of taking public input with no intention of taking the advice of the citizenry.
Palco's proposal has triggered a rush to solidify those plans into stone, and damn the General Plan process. That's the way it looks to me.
Planning is worried that the General Plan won't give them what they want out of the General Planning process. Power. So they are going to bypass that process and do PLANNING BY ORDINANCE and structure everything the way they want it. More restrictions, more fees and more power for Planning. Take the Planning process out of the hands of the citizens, that is what they are trying to do.
ReplyDeleteDig deeper into the coastal comish guy we now have as county counsel. It's not just who you know but who you know and blow. This blows.
ReplyDeleteRECALL!
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ReplyDeleteThe social planners at the Planning Dept couldn't do this without the support of their bosses the board of supervisors. 3 out of control egomaniacs,1 can't we all just get a long wet noodle,1 thinking indivdual, Do the math.We're in deep shit. Recall or kool-aid?
ReplyDeleteWell - I'll tell you the same thing I told Salzman way back in 2003 - Recalls rarely succeed.
ReplyDeleteWhat's more, we have learned they are expensive and divisive.
It's more important for those who have not been active to get active, and be heard. As Rodoni said "I've always known you were out there."
You have to speak up for your rights or they will be taken away by those new age con men who have taken to using the legal system and the planning system, zoning and ordinances and lawsuits to dictate to you. They only get away with it because law abiding people are compliant.
There are better solutions - better way st o spend your time and money.
Second - I have a real problem with anyone using the "drink the koolaid" euphemism in this County where we just had the mastermind of the KoolAid massacre as the Assistant DA. Tim Stoen, Jim Jones second in command right hand man, theone who plotted to kill Les Kinsolving, the one who plotted to poison the water supply of Washington DC long before we had terrorists - he was right here, the good little Gallegos soldier, ready to "take the arrows" for his beloved Paul. He hasn't changed one iota, and he was never the innocent dupe.
You can't use that phrase here unless you are willing to address that hideous sociopathic monster and his part in all of this mess we are in.
Just recall the bastards.
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