To: Board of Supervisors
From: Planning and Building Department
Agenda Section: Public Hearing
SUBJECT:
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Zoning Text Amendments to Implement the General Plan - Group 2 Land Use Element Agricultural & Forest Resources Related Zoning Changes
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Open the public hearing and receive the staff report and public testimony;
2. Close the public hearing;
3. Adopt the attached resolution (Resolution 19-__ (Attachment 1)) making the required findings regarding CEQA compliance and for approval of zoning ordinance amendments;
4. Adopt the attached ordinance (Ordinance No. ____ (Attachment 2)) amending Title III, Division 1, Chapter 4 of the Humboldt County Code to be Consistent with the 2017 General Plan by amending Section 314-7.1 "AE - Agriculture Exclusive Zone"; Section 314-7.4 "TPZ - Timberland Production Zone," and Section 314-17.1"B-1- Special Building Site" Combining Zone; and by adding Section 314-7.5 "TE - Timberland Exclusive" Principal Zone; Section 314-9.1 "MU1 - Mixed Use (Urban)" Principal Zone, Section 314-9.2 "MU2 - Mixed Use (Rural)" Principal Zone; and Section 314-31.2 "PRD - Planned Rural Development" Combing Zone;
5. Direct the Planning and Building Department to:
a. initiate, as separate future amendments:
i. Building Envelope provisions within Resource Zones;
ii. Develop ordinances to implement General Plan Policies addressing Fire Hazards, to be completed by June of 2020;
iii. Prepare an ordinance amending Fire Safe Regulations to remove the limitation that only on-site access roads need to meet fire safe regulations. This is to also be completed by June 2020; and
iv. Implement a "D" combining zone in the following community plan areas: Arcata, Jacoby Creek, Freshwater, Mckinleyville, Fieldbrook-Glendale, Tinidad-Westhaven and Orick;
b. include discussion of ridgeline and viewshed protection measures as part of the community planning work in the McKinleyville,...
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