Harbor District Strategic Plan Forum 11/13/18

What are your suggestions for District long-term priorities to improve the harbors at Pillar Point and Oyster Point? In what ways can the harbors enhance the economy, environment, and recreation in our county?
Help define future Harbor District priorities by participating in one of two Community Forums:
     6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
     Oyster Point Marina - Nov 7 – 33 Arroyo Dr, South San Francisco
     Pillar Point Harbor - Nov 13 – 504 Ave Alhambra, El Granada

MCC Meeting Sept 26, 2018

MCC Agenda for September 26, 2018, 7:00pm at GCSD
           504 Ave Alhambra, 3rd floor, El Granada
Supporting material:  
          Consent: Minutes for August 22, 2018
Cypress Point Affordable Housing: MCC comments (approved)
          8/22/18 presentation  -  9/24/18 DPW comments 
          Caltrans comments 8/29/18 - 4/9/18
          submittal (County page) - MCC page
Highway Direct Access: MCC letter (approved)
          4/25/18 presentation 
Airport St. Propane Facility: MCC comments (approved)
          referral - site plan - Fire Marshall comments
          MCC presentations: 1/11/17 & 10/11/17
Tsunami Hazard Maps: MCC letter (approved)
          2009 maps north, south

UPDATE: 9/26/18 meeting video & minutes
    Supervisor Horsley letter to Caltrans re direct hwy access

La Costanera Restaurant Granted Permit for Outdoor Patio

On 9/13/18 the California Coastal Commission (CCC) approved an amendment to the popular Montara Beach restaurant’s Coastal Development Permit, allowing use of the lower patio, which was built without permits in 2008.  To mitigate for parking impacts on public beach access, a condition of approval requires the applicant to improve the adjacent State Parks informal dirt parking lot.  The parking lot improvements must be completed within two years, but the restaurant will be allowed to seat patrons on their patio immediately.         (staff report, exhibits)

Other public access improvements around the restaurant are planned for construction in the coming months, including improved public access trail, view seating areas and clear signage indicating the shared beach access parking in the restaurant lots. These were included in the consent agreement between the CCC and the property owners in March 2017, which resolved a range of long-standing Coastal Act violations at La Costanera. 

MCC has expressed concerns about the deteriorating rip-rap that was permitted by the County in 1984 to protect the restaurant from erosion. As a condition of the County Use Permit amendment for the patio a year ago, a rip-rap repair plan is required from the property owner within one year (by Oct 2018). Removal of excess view-blocking boulders from the bluff top will be considered in that assessment.