A conflicted California Coastal Commission voted 6-3 yesterday to object to the Trinidad Rancheria’s proposed 100-room hotel project on Scenic Drive, finding it inconsistent with state coastal protections. Commissioners made clear during the nearly two-hour hearing in San Diego that the main consistency issue lies with water, and namely whether the city of Trinidad has […]
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Humboldt School Kids Hit the Beach for a Cause (with Video)
Humboldt County school children descended on the South Spit to remove invasive species and pick up trash in celebration of the statewide Kids Ocean Day that culminated Thursday with a group photo captured from the air. This year’s design featured the 1,000 or so elementary school students creating a pair of Western grebes with a […]
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‘Incredibly Disappointing’
Two days and 600 miles apart, a pair of governing bodies held very different conversations about the need for local input into development decisions that will impact Humboldt County for decades to come. It was a bit jarring. First, on May 7, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors had a testy exchange over a seemingly […]
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Lack of Water Threatens Trinidad Rancheria Hotel Project
The planned 100-room Trinidad Rancheria hotel at Cher-Ae Heights Casino appears stalled at the state level because of an inability to come up with a definite source of drinking water for the facility. Located on the bluffs of Scenic Drive, a mile south of city limits, the planned hotel is outside of Trinidad’s water service […]
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UPDATE: Coastal Commission Asks Staff to Postpone Safety Corridor Hearing to Allow Local Input
UPDATE: On the heels of the California Coastal Commission’s request to staff to delay a hearing on Caltrans’ U.S. Highway 101 Safety Corridor improvement plan, Caltrans released a statement this afternoon indicating it hopes delaying the hearing by two months will not impact its construction timeline. “If the Commission were to delay their meeting on […]
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Bass, Wilson Seeking Coastal Commission Seat in Round 2
UPDATE: The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously April 9 to send forward the names of both Fourth District Supervisor Virginia Bass and Third District Supervisor Mike Wilson for possible appointment to the California Coastal Commission. PREVIOUSLY: The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors will consider Tuesday sending the names of at least one supervisor […]
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Staff Recommends Coastal Commission Object to Trinidad Hotel Project
California Coastal Commission staff issued a highly critical report on the Trinidad Rancheria’s plans for a new hotel on the bluffs of Scenic Drive near Cher-Ae Heights Casino and is recommending the commission object to the project’s tentative approval by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The 28-page document criticized the Rancheria for failing to […]
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Trinidad Rancheria Unveils its Revised Hotel Proposal
The Trinidad Rancheria recently presented its revised concept of a 100-room hotel on the bluffs of Scenic Drive but it aroused little enthusiasm from the residents of Trinidad. David Tyson, CEO of the Trinidad Rancheria Economic Development Corporation (TREDC), gave the presentation during the March 13 meeting of the Trinidad City Council to an audience […]
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The Humble Humboldt Roots of the World’s Largest Coastal Cleanup Event
When you stand on the Earth’s surface, it seems infinite, a place beyond dimension. A human is less significant than an ant fallen into the mid-Pacific. Nothing. From space our world is less expansive. Those are often the youthful perspectives when one appraises the future. Nothing seems so fraught with possibilities, yet enmeshed with such […]
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Sundberg Selected for Coastal Commission
Gov. Jerry Brown’s office announced today that Humboldt County Supervisor Ryan Sundberg has been appointed to the North Coast regional seat on the California Coastal Commission. Sundberg will be the first Native American to serve on the powerful commission charged with determining the fate of California’s 1,100 miles of coastline. The McKinleyville resident replaces Del […]
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Humboldt Bay Radioactivists
Tucked near King Salmon, the Humboldt Bay nuclear power plant’s been shut down since 1976. It is part way to burial but, like rust, it will never sleep. In a PG&E-sponsored Aug. 19 “open house” in Eureka, utility staffers were supposed to update the community on the nuke plant’s progress toward decommissioning. The event left […]
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Developers Withdraw Marina Center Permit Application
It easily could have been taken as an April Fool’s joke. On April 1, Security National Vice President Mike Casey filed papers with the California Coastal Commission, withdrawing the company’s application for a coastal development permit that would have paved the way for the first phase of the long-debated Marina Center development on Eureka’s blighted […]