San Mateo County Planning 2024 Plan Princeton Sea Level Rise Projections Workshop

Attached please find information on an upcoming workshop for Plan Princeton scheduled for Friday, November 1, 2024 from 11:00am to 3:00pm.

The area comprised of Princeton, Pillar Point Harbor and the Half Moon Bay Airport is the visitor-serving and industrial hub of the Midcoast. In 2013 the County began a comprehensive planning update for the Princeton area to update existing land use plans, development polices and zoning regulations.

To learn more about San Mateo County’s Plan Princeton, please visit the (updated) project

AGENDA

11:00 – Arrival

11:05 – Welcome

11:10 – Plan Princeton / SLR Presentation

11:30 – Game of Floods Introduction

11:40 – Game of Floods Part 1 – Vulnerability

12:40 – Lunch Break

1:10 – Adaptation Strategies Presentation

1:25 – Game of Floods Part 2 – Strategy Selection

2:35 – Game Report Outs

2:55 – Closing

3:00 – Adjourn

The presentations powerpoints will get posted online after the meeting. We do plan to take an audio recording of the presentation parts to post online also so someone watch the powerpoint with the oral narration.

The rest of the material/docs are a physical game board and many game pieces/cards where each table will play their own game board. We are planning to leave a game at Supervisor Mueller’s coastside office after the workshop so people can go in and look at it or even play it on their own at the office if they desire.    ~ Senior Planner Summer Burlison

More on Plan Princeton on Coastside Buzz

More on Princeton (or Pillar Point) Harbor on Coastside Buzz

SMCo Plan Princeton County Webpage; circa 2015, now 2024

Summary of Community Workshop #3; April 2015

Preferred Plan and Policy Framework; March 2015

Plan Princeton Process Stalled due to Sea Level Rise; June 2015

2013 Existing Plan Princeton Map

March 2015 Plan Princeton Preferred Land Use Plan Diagram

Note the change in Commercial zoning.

2024 Long Range Plan for San Mateo County Planning and Building

Plan Princeton Truck Routes 2015

Plan Princeton Coastal Access Plan 2015

Plan Princeton from the Midcoast Community Council (MCC) website

 

Project planner:  Summer Burlison
Scope of Work
Public Participation Program
Coastal Act Background & Requirements

GOALS OF PLANNING UPDATE:

• Enhance coastal access, recreation, research, and education opportunities.

• Support and expand coastal-dependent and coastal-related uses.

• Provide facilities needed by the commercial fishing industry and recreational boaters.

• Create local jobs and services.

• Abate neighborhood blight and zoning violations.

• Address parking, circulation, and infrastructure needs.

• Identify and evaluate potential solutions to shoreline erosion problems.

• Protect and restore water quality and sensitive habitats.

• Maintain compliance with CA Coastal Act and State airport compatibility requirements.

MCC EARLY EFFORTS

• 2009 MCC and Pillar Ridge request for updated M-1 zoning regulations and Supervisor Gordon reply.

• 2012 MCC request/presentation to prioritize zoning updates for Princeton light industrial districts (M-1 and W).

• 2013 Pillar Point Harbor Shoreline Erosion MCC presentation

• 2014 MCC Overview Presentation on shoreline conditions, past and existing development, approved projects on appeal or not yet built

TIMELINE & PROGRESS OF PLAN PRINCETON:

2013 Community Visioning Report

2014 May: Existing Conditions Report

2014 Sept: Alternatives Workbook – comments by MCC — CCC

2015 Preferred Plan & Policy Framework – presentations to MCC – Planning Commission – comments by CCC — CGF —
comments on Development Standards Oct 2015 by MCC

>> 2016-2020 Project paused. <<

2017 – MCC requested status update — see 7/12/17 minutes #4a, although imminent roll out did not occur.

2019 Princeton Shoreline Management Plan – County policy framework memo to CCC & attachments — 2020 CCC reply: positive feedback on proposed water levels, erosion rates, and policy framework

Background

AIRPORT PLAN UPDATES

For info on 2014 updates of the Half Moon Bay Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan (ALUCP) and the HMB Airport Layout Plan, see Airport page.

ZONING ORDINANCES 2012

A-O Airport Overlay District
M-1 – light industrial District (airport & west of Airport St.)
W – Waterfront District – marine-related light industrial
CCR – Coastside Commercial Recreation District

ZONING MAPS

Midcoast Land Use Plan
Pillar Point & Marsh
Princeton
Harbor/Princeton Overview

LAND USE PLANS

Local Coastal Program (LCP)
1986 Princeton Area Study

Plan Princeton is a study being conducted by San Mateo County to update the land use plan for Princeton. The project will focus on the area west of and including Highway 1, between Pillar Point Harbor and Moss Beach. The purpose of this project is to make a comprehensive update to the policies, plans, and standards regulating the Princeton study area in order to:

• Enhance coastal access, recreation, research, and education opportunities.
• Support and expand coastal-dependent and coastal-related uses.
• Provide facilities needed by the commercial fishing industry and recreational boaters.
• Create local jobs and services.
• Abate neighborhood blight and zoning violations.
• Address parking, circulation, and infrastructure needs.
• Identify and evaluate potential solutions to shoreline erosion problems.
• Protect and restore water quality and sensitive habitats.
• Maintain compliance with the State Coastal Act and State airport compatibility requirements.

San Mateo County Plannning Commission

• Frederick Hansson
  2nd Term
  Jan 01, 2019 to Jan 06, 2023

  Title
  Member
  Representing
  Second District
• Carlos Serrano-Quan
  Partial Term
  Jun 28, 2022 to Dec 31, 2024

  Title
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  Representing
  Fifth District
• Manuel Ramirez Jr.
  2nd Term
  Jan 01, 2021 to Dec 31, 2024

  Title
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  Representing
  Fourth District
• Kumkum Gupta
  1st Term
  Jan 01, 2021 to Dec 31, 2024

  Title
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  Representing
  First District
• Lisa Ketcham
  2nd Term
  Jan 01, 2023 to Dec 31, 2026

  Title
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  Third District
• Steven Monowitz
  No Term
  N/A N/A

  Title
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  Representing
  Community Development Director
• Diana Shu
  No Term
  N/A N/A

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  Representing
  Department of Public Works

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