MCC Regular Meeting - January 26, 2022

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:

Update: video and minutes

Special Meeting Jan. 25th - MCC/RCD Wildfire Listening Session

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

San Mateo State Route 1 Safety Barrier Project Neg Dec published

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)

MCC Regular Meeting - January 12, 2022

MCC Regular Meeting Agenda for January 12, 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.

This meeting will be primarily for the community to provide opinions and feedback on the Final Draft of Connect the Coastside, in preparation for a letter by the MCC to the County. The letter will be discussed at the following meeting on January 26. Feedback may also be sent to the Council via email, before or after the meeting.

Agenda supporting materials:

Update: video and minutes