The Humboldt County Planning Commission backed away from a proposed no-confidence vote in planning staff Thursday night, and instead unanimously approved forming an adhoc committee aimed at improving staff-commission relations. Specifically, the committee will see two yet-to-be-named commissioners meet with interim Planning Director Robert Wall and County Counsel Jeffrey Blanck in order to clarify procedures […]
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UPDATE: Supes to Discuss Marijuana Grower Registration Program
UPDATE: County planner Steve Lazar has released the draft medical marijuana cultivation ordinance that county supervisors will look at next week. Click on the pdf for details on the permit tiering and other regulations recommended by the planning commission. Also included is a letter in support of the recommendations penned by commission Chair Robert Morris […]
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Planning Commission Continues to Slog Through Marijuana Land Use Ordinance
The Humboldt County Planning Commission is in the throes of its third meeting this week to address a proposed outdoor medical marijuana cultivation ordinance. In the course of four meetings in the last eight days, commissioners have heard hours of public comment and talked in depth with county counsel and planning staff in the commission’s […]
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UPDATED: Planning Commissioner Arrested on Suspicion of DUI
The California Highway Patrol issued a press release this morning providing some details of Saturday’s arrest of Humboldt County Planning Commissioner Noah Levy. See the full release following the original post below. Original Post: Humboldt County Planning Commissioner Noah Levy was arrested early Saturday morning on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol in […]
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Sundberg Taps Paine for Planning Commission
Humboldt County has a new planning commissioner. This morning, 5th District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg advised the board that he has appointed former long-time Willow Creek Community Services District Manager Steve Paine to the county planning commission to fill the post vacated by his last appointee, Susan Masten, who has resigned after serving for three years. […]
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‘Does that Mean Trails are Back?’
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously this afternoon to put language in the General Plan Update’s Conservation and Open Space element supporting the creation of a “regional trail system.” Today’s meeting kicked off on an unusual note, as 5th District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg cued up his cell phone’s speakerphone and played a voice […]
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Supes to Consider GPU Slowdown
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors will consider Tuesday whether to pump the brakes on its General Plan Update, which is some 14 years in the making, in response to a plea from county planning staff. County Planning Director Kevin Hamblin sent the board a letter last week noting that the Humboldt County Planning Commission […]
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Supes to Tackle GPU Monday
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors will begin Monday the process of reviewing changes to the Conservation and Open Space Element of the General Plan Update proposed by its planning commission. After the Supes sent the element to the Humboldt County Planning Commission for review in the beginning of the year, the commission made some […]
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The GPU
There are no two ways about it, Humboldt County is a unique place, says Kevin Hamblin. The county planning director is sitting in his office off H Street in Eureka on a recent afternoon, his window propped open a few inches to let in some fresh air and the sound of pouring rain. Many people […]
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Just Because You’re Paranoid
Last week your author mentioned that several recent studies indicate marijuana use can cause problems with teenagers’ developing brains, lowering IQs of chronic users during their transition to adulthood. It’s easy to point out that highly successful people have confessed to marijuana use in their formative years — world leaders, captains of industry, artists, actors […]
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I’m Still Worried
This week’s cover story is a scholarly write-up by Journal News Editor Thadeus Greenson about the General Plan Update process — and how money may or may not influence decisions. He started with a public records act request to county supervisors for emails during a specific time period last year when they were changing the […]
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Planning Commission Seeks Guidance from ‘Bosses’
Facing a riled-up public, some of the newest members of the Humboldt County Planning Commission found themselves on the short end of two votes Thursday night. For the second meeting in a row, Supervisors Chambers was about half-filled by angry and demanding trail advocates, along with a smattering of fisheries biologists. One contested vote was […]