Email San Mateo Supervisors re Vote on Local Coastal Plan

Posted November 13, 2006

Last month we reported the San Mateo Board of Supervisors had made several important decisions in the Local Coastal Program review that strengthened environmental protections and reduced development pressure in the MidCoast area. Please see our October 20th update.

The Board of Supervisors will be hearing the LCP Update for final approval tomorrow, November 14, at 9:30 am. We do not anticipate substantial changes to the current versions of the Amendments modified by the Board over the past two years. At this stage, the critical issue that the Board will decide tomorrow involves the method in which these Amendments will be submitted to the Coastal Commission for their final approval.

San Mateo County Counsel has produced a 54-page memo outlining four methods for submittal. Committee for Green Foothills has submitted comments urging the Board to follow the option outlined in Resolution 4. It will allow some of the Amendments to be adopted as submitted while providing the Coastal Commission the opportunity to suggest modifications to those that do not currently comply with the Coastal Act. If the Supervisors go for a strict up or down vote by the Coastal Commission on the entire package of Amendments, we fear the Commission will reject of the amendments and we will have nothing to show for the past seven years of effort and participation.

If you can attend the meeting, please do. If not, please contact them and let them know that an up or down vote on the entire package serves no one's interests and represents a colossal waste of the public's time, resources and good will over the past seven years. Please email or call Board members before tomorrow morning’s hearing and let them know that you support Resolution 4 to keep moving the Local Coastal Plan Amendments forward.

Contacting Board members:

   Rich Gordon
   Mark Church
   Jerry Hill
   Rose Jacobs Gibson
   Adrienne Tissier
   Fax: 650-599-1027
   Phone: 650-573-2222

Thanks for speaking up for open space. Your voice does make a difference!

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