Title
Humboldt County Department of Public Works Coastal Development Permit and Special Permit
Application Number 15831
Case Number: PLN-2019-15831
Assessor Parcel Numbers 000-000-000
County Road Right of Way - Big Lagoon Area and Samoa area
A Coastal Development Permit and Special Permit to install no parking signs along New Navy Base Road and Ocean View Drive which will implement County Ordinance No. 2578. Revisions to the Ordinance will be required to ensure that the Ordinance conforms to the Coastal Development Permit. On New Navy Base Road, No Parking and Restricted Parking would occur beginning at the northerly terminus of the Bureau of Land Management Samoa Dunes Recreation Area and ending at the intersection of New Navy Base Road and State Hwy. 255. There are nine (9) coastal access points identified in the Humboldt Bay Local Coastal Plan along this road segment where parking restrictions are proposed. Parking restrictions consist of zones that prohibit parking at all times and nine (9) zones that prohibit parking within the hours of 10 pm to 5 am. In addition, the County is seeking blanket authority to block off pioneered vehicular access into the dunes from the County maintained right of way on an as needed basis. This blanket authority would allow the County to rapidly respond to block off vehicle access to prevent further harm to the dunes and is consistent with the recommendations in Section 3.50, Access, of the Humboldt Bay Area Plan for Point 20 where the County is to provide off-road vehicle barriers and other measures to discourage off road vehicles use of adjacent vegetated dunes. Blockades would be created by placing driftwood harvested from the beach, boulders, logs, or other barriers to prevent vehicular access. The blockades, when placed, would not 1) eliminate any existing parking areas; and 2) would not block or obstruct pedestrian access into the dune habitat or the beach. On Ocean View Drive, approximately five (5) No Parking signs will be installed along the west side of 0.200 miles of road with one sign installed on the east side of the road at the dead end to provide a vehicular turnaround area within the existing paved road. Vegetation removal for both projects will be very minimal, each signpost is limited to a small footprint.
Recommendation
Find the project exempt from environmental review pursuant to Sections 15301 and 15304 of the State CEQA Guidelines, make all of the required findings for approval of the Coastal Development Permit and Special Permit, based on evidence in the staff report, and adopt the Resolution approving the Humboldt County Department of Public Works Coastal Development Permit.