Stay tuned for the next meeting date…

San Mateo County Supervisor Horsley‘s Legislative Aide, Lena Silberman, reports.

There was a miscommunication between Caltrans and San Mateo County Planning.

SMCo Planning Staff are recommending denial of the project to the SMCo Planning Commission for a Coastal Development Permit (CDP) approval. Caltrans wants time to respond to that denial.

Write in to San Mateo County Planner, Michael Schaller, mschaller@smcgov.org, and let him know how you feel.

NOTE. Half Moon Bay City Council and the public told Caltrans that they did not want VMS signs. They saw VMS as a visual blight.

Gregg Dieguez (InPerspective) weighs in:

Is Caltrans Planning The Right Things for the MidCoast?

The use of smcalert.org, Waze, Google maps, Nextdoor have been working better since PSPS (Public Safety Planned Shutoffs).

Additionally, the current Caltrans VMS messaging for the Devil’s Slide Cliff Restoration project in Half Moon Bay has had the dates of construction wrong twice. At the same time it was nowhere on their website. Today this misinformation is inconvenient, but in an emergency evacuation it would be dangerous.

~ Michelle Dragony, Chief Buzz Officer (I’m also a CERT Trainer – FEMA’s Community Emergency Response Team)

From the 5/25/22 San Mateo County Planning Commission Agenda:

Owner: State of California Applicant: California Dept. of Transportation

File Number: PLN 2022-00009

Location: Various locations on Hwy. 1 in the urban Mid-Coast Assessor’s Parcel No: Public Right of Way (various locations)

Consideration of a Coastal Development Permit to install a Wireless Traffic Operation System at various locations in the unincorporated MidCoast area of San Mateo County.

This project is appealable to the California Coastal Commission. Application deemed complete on January 18, 2022.

Please direct questions to Project Planner Michael Schaller at mschaller@smcgov.org.

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