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
San Mateo County Parks invites the public to review and comment on the environmental document and plans for a two-year restoration and trail-building effort at the Pedro Point Headlands in Pacifica. Document and trail plans can be viewed here.
Please submit your comments before 5pm, March 23, 2016, to Sam Herzberg, sherzberg@smcgov.org
Pacifica Land Trust's Pedro Point Headlands website has complete information on the property, the restoration project, trails, and volunteering.
The Proposed Rule for Dog Management in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) is open for public comment until April 25, 2016. [UPDATE: comment period extended to May 25) The proposed rule would designate where and how people would be able to enjoy the park with their dogs. Rancho Corral de Tierra trail map is here. Review the Plan and find out more here.
There will be a public meeting to learn more, ask questions, speak individually with park staff as well as briefly to the assembled group:
March 22, 6:00-8:00PM
Farallone View School, 1100 Le Conte, Montara.
Comments may be submitted via letter to Superintendent, GGNRA, Attn: Dog Management Proposed Rule, Building 201 Fort Mason, SF, CA 94123. Tips for submitting an effective comment are here.
Regular MCC meeting for Feb 24, 2016, has been canceled.
Upcoming MCC agendas:
Mar 9: (tentative) Short-term rental ordinance draft review
Mar 23: Connect the Coastside preview of Transportation Alternatives
Other March meetings:
Mar 16: MidPen Housing Community Open House
re 11-acre affordable housing site in north Moss Beach
6:30-9:00 PM at Farallone View School
Mar 30: Public Workshop: Connect the Coastside (venue TBD)
Recommended Transportation Improvements & Land Use Policies
to minimize and mitigate the impacts of growth.
CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) Training is offered in Montara at Farallone View Elementary School on four consecutive Thursday evenings, 6-10pm, from March 24 through April 14, 2016, with a final exercise on Saturday April 16 from 8-4. The free classes provide 20+ hours of FEMA-designed training for citizens to assist First Responders during disasters. Class size is limited to the first 30 applicants. To register for the course, contact OES Coastside District Coordinator Nick Gottuso at 650-726-4069 or ngottuso@smcgov.org.
Coastal blufftop access and spectacular rocky shoreline views have been restored to the public at the west end of 7th St in Montara. Since the MCC first asked in Oct 2012 for public access to the coast at 5th, Seacliff, and 7th Streets, there have been presentations, meetings, an online petition with over 400 signatures, and public hearings at the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors. The fence blocking coastal views at the end of Seacliff was no problem and DPW (Dept of Public Works) removed it in June 2013 with no neighbor objections.
7th St was another story.
Supervisor Horsley committed to getting the 7th St fence removed in summer 2013, but it has taken ever since for County staff to work out a compromise with the adjacent property owner where a prior owner had closed off the public right-of-way for private use, with an encroachment permit from DPW(!), over 40 years ago.
To complete the transformation we hope to persuade DPW to remove the view-blocking hedge on the south side of the end of 7th St behind the bollards.
As for 5th St, a paper street leading to Montara State Beach blufftop parcels, there is currently no one at County government willing to stand up for pedestrian coastal access there, and the neighboring property owner has taken over the entire right-of-way. See Montara Coastal Access page for more details.
