Midcoast Community Council
An elected Municipal Advisory Council to the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors,
representing unincorporated Montara, Moss Beach, El Granada, Princeton, and Miramar
On Feb. 8, 2022, the Board of Supervisors is expected to announce the launch of a survey to help inform the County’s first Immigrant Inclusion Strategic Plan.
Everyone who identifies as an immigrant is invited to take the survey in any of 12 languages. Respondents will receive a $10 gift card while supplies last. Starting tomorrow, take the survey at https://tinyurl.com/smcosurvey
More information at https://cmo.smcgov.org/immigrant-services
MCC Annual Retreat agenda for Saturday, February 5, 2022, 8:30am
The meeting will be conducted remotely as a telephone and video conference via Zoom (link). There will be no public meeting room for the meeting. Instructions for accessing the meeting and for making comments are available at the top of the agenda.
Agenda supporting materials:
2022 Priorities and Major Topics
2022 Committee and Task Assignments
MCC Regular Meeting agenda for January 26, 2022
The meeting will be conducted remotely as a telephone and video conference via Zoom (link). There will be no public meeting room for the meeting. Instructions for accessing the meeting and for making comments are available at the top of the agenda.
Agenda supporting materials:
Consent Agenda: Draft minutes for January 12, 2022
Pilot Off-Leash Dog-Walking Program: final Comment Letter adopted, County Parks presentation
Connect the Coastside Final Draft: Comment Letter
The MidCoast Community Council will hold a special meeting in conjunction with RCD, which is conducting a public listening session regarding the El Granada Wildfire Resiliency Scoping Project. Agenda to be provided by RCD. The meeting will be held remotely from 6 pm to as late as 8 pm. on Tuesday, January 25th. You can join via Zoom.
This is posted as a special meeting of the MCC in order to allow a quorum of councilmembers to attend the meeting. On an ongoing basis, you can find more information about this project and our efforts to prevent wildfire on the Midcoast here: Wildfire in the Midcoast.
Update: Video of the meeting
Caltrans has sent email about the project, where to get the documents, and how to comment. This is the project to add safety barriers south of the Devil’s Slide tunnel, to north of Montara State Beach (map below).
This is the Notification itself, and the documents are here, scroll down to find San Mateo County projects (direct links that work right now are the Project Information page and the actual Mitigated Negative Declaration document.
Email follows:
Caltrans is circulating a Draft Initial Study with Proposed Mitigated Negative Declaration (IS/MND) for the State Route 1 Safety Barriers Project. The environmental document for this project will be circulated and open for public comments starting January 12, 2022 and ending on February 11, 2022. A Virtual Public Open House meeting is planned for January 27, 2022 from 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
To review the environmental document, access information on how to participate in the Virtual Open House please navigate to Caltrans environmental document website (https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-popular-links/d4-environmental-docs). There you can find that Caltrans also has a project specific link that you will be able obtain information on the project, comment on the IS/MND, and a link, password, and dial in number to attend the Public Virtual Open House. The Virtual Open House will include a slide presentation providing an overview of the project and the environmental process, followed by a question and answer session with the project team.
If you have any comments about the proposed project, please attend the online public meeting. Please send comments by mail or email to:
Caltrans District 4
Office of Environmental Analysis
ATTN: Nina Hofmarcher
P.O. Box 23660, MS: 8B
Oakland, CA 94623 0660
Nina.Hofmarcher@dot.ca.gov (Preferred method of contact during COVID 19)
