Humboldt County Supervisor Bonnie Neely said Monday she will recommend postponing an anticipated Dec. 11 hearing about development on timberland.
A temporary moratorium on building in timberland production zones -- or TPZ -- sponsored by Neely and Supervisor Jill Geist sparked a major controversy in October. The moratorium was brought in response to the Pacific Lumber Co.'s proposal to divide 22,000 acres of its timberland into 160-acre exclusive ranchettes as part of its bankruptcy reorganization plan, they said.
Initially supported 4-1, the moratorium was allowed to expire. The matter was passed on to the planning commission, which has wrangled with proposals for a new ordinance that would fit within the new general plan. The commission didn't finish its deliberations on the issue at the end of November, and won't take it up again until Dec. 20.
”I'm recommending to the board that the TPZ hearing schedule for December 11th be continued,” Neely wrote in an e-mail. “The planning commission should be able to complete their deliberations before making any recommendations to the Board of Supervisors.” Neely says TPZ hearing should be delayed
Update: The item was pulled.
Yaaawwwn. . . . . Guess this is a real sleeper. Even ML and KM must be thinking they chose wrong on this issue. Twitch twitch.
ReplyDeleteMaybe - but they are pressing for advantage anyway - working to make it about "preferential tax treatment" when that is not the issue - but it is a divisive social card they can play to their advantage.
ReplyDeleteAnd they are desperately trying to position and pressure staff into putting new ordinances into place, because every phrase of a new regulation offers them the opportunity to obstruct and assert control down the road, and opens the door to litigation.
"Humboldt Watershed Council/Healthy Humboldt's" true colors are coming out here - and they are hurting people who would normally be their die-hard supporters. Because people rarely look below the surface of the rhetoric.
A good many of their misrepresentations were set straight last night at a meeting in McKinleyville. Bill Barnum, Jennifer Kalt, a forester whose name I don't know and Mark Lovelace were on the panel.
Good info for sure. Ministreial permits of TPZ are very involved and not easy to get as the anti-tpz crowd has been trying to tell us. It seems planning has a lot of egg on thier face after the real process was explained. There really seems to be a deeper agenda here. One wonders if devaluation of TPZ properties might be a ploy for the final destruction of Palco.the rest of us be damned.
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