San Mateo Conservation District Receives $1.5M Grant from California Coastal Conservancy for Fuel Reduction for Critical Evacuation Corridor between East Hwy 92 to Hwy 35

CONSENT AGENDA, MAP and STAFF REPORT. From the San Mateo Resource Conservation District board meeting on February 20th, 2025 at 4:00pm as a hybrid meeting.

1. SMRCD Resolution authorizing execution of State Coastal Conservancy grant agreement for Fuel Reduction along critical evacuation routes in San Mateo County.”

2. PRESS RELEASE. From the Board of the California State Coastal Conservancy on November 21st, 2024. Today, the Board of the State Coastal Conservancy approved grants totaling over $113 million for coastal restoration, protection, public access and climate resilience. The 47 projects awarded today include funding to acquire approximately 52 acres at Point Molate in the City of Richmond to create a regional shoreline park, to construct of 1.71 miles of the Santa Ana River Trail in Riverside County, and for nine Coastal Stories projects that will create storytelling installations, murals, and other interpretive materials that represent diverse communities’ perspectives that historically have been excluded from narratives of California’s coast and publicly accessible land.

The San Mateo Resource Conservation District was awarded $1,542,000 to undertake the San Mateo County Critical Evacuation Corridors Wildfire Resilience Project, consisting of the removal of hazardous vegetation along two critical road evacuation corridors, Highway 92 and Sand Hill Road, in San Mateo County; and adoption of findings under the California Environmental Quality Act.

3. Staff Report from California State Coastal Conservancy board on November 21st, 2024.
LOCATION: Along Highway 92 between Highway 35 and Interstate 280 and along Sand Hill Road, in San Mateo County.


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