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VIDEO. From the Midcoast Community Council (MCC) meeting on Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 at 7:00pm, as a hybrid meeting.
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Thanks to exMCC’s Lisa Ketcham (now on the San Mateo County Planning Commission) for an incredibly well curated website archive on local planning issues.
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Midcoast Community Council Website
Midcoast Community Council (MCC) is an elected Municipal Advisory Council to the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, representing Montara, Moss Beach, El Granada, Princeton, and Miramar.
Regular MCC meetings are on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month at 7:00 PM at Granada Community Services District (GCSD) meeting room, 504 Ave Alhambra, third floor, El Granada. All MCC meetings are open to the public, and are agendized and posted according to the requirements of the Brown Act.
Agenda item supporting documents are available 72 hours in advance of meetings on http://www.MidcoastCommunityCouncil.org.
Minutes from previous meetings on http://www.midcoastcommunitycouncil.org/2017-2018/
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Midcoast Community Councilmembers
MCC: [email protected]
P.O. Box 248, Moss Beach, CA 94038
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Gregg Dieguez, Chair – Term Ends: Dec. 2024
Phone: 650-544-0714
Email: [email protected]
Claire Toutant, Vice Chair – Term Ends: Dec. 2026
Phone: 650-676-5847
Email: [email protected]
Scott Bollinger, Secretary – Term Ends: Dec 2026
Phone: 650-773-4425
Email: [email protected]
Dan Haggerty, Treasurer – Term Ends: Dec. 2024
Phone: 650-212-6026
Email : [email protected]
Gus Mattammal, Member – Term Ends: Dec 2026
Phone: 650-451-5335
Email: [email protected]
Vacancy for term ending 2026
Vacancy for term ending 2024
Author: Coastside Buzz
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From their notes on the field trip, the MCC members present got only a very cursory, one-sided, and uninformed presentation on the field trip. The attempt by DPR people to justify the extensive and unnecessary damage to roadside vegetation (for the first time to this degree in the multi-decade history of road maintenance) and to blow smoke on such subjects as invasive plants revived memories of the days when DPR personnel from Sacramento played along with uber-agency Caltrans to pooh-pooh the massive damage to Montara Mountain that would have been caused by gouging a 5-6-lane freeway-style project through the mountain and calling it a two-lane road.
No plan for the future of the road will be legitimate if it does not prevent damage to vegetation beyond the edges of the road, itself, and erosion-promoting grading and water-channeling mistakes of the sort that happened in the most recent screw-ups of late last spring. This would include prevention of projects that get around policies and regulations like the unjustified “emergency” declaration by the county to get funds for the activities that damaged the mountain along the road. The necessary conditions to prevent the same kinds of harmful mistakes may be a hard nut to swallow for the DPR and the county, but, given the repeated behavior of the government agencies involved, any plan for the road will be meaningless without them.