ARTICLE / PHOTOS / VIDEO. Planning staff are recommending approval of PDP-18-074 to the City Council an application for a Coastal Development Permit, Use Permit, Architectural Review, Vesting Tentative Subdivision […]
City of HMB Capital Improvements Projects (CIP) Past and Future
VIDEO / PODCAST. Do you know what projects the City Council and City Staff have been working on in this last year? Watch (or listen) to the meeting. Have a […]
Hard Working Half Moon Bay City Council ~ 32 Additional Meeting Groups!
ARTICLE. Besides their twice monthly City Council meeting that can last 3-4 hours, the five of them attend 32 different agency and issue meetings on top of that, and their […]
HMB Planned Developments Haven’t Been Updated in over 25 years
VIDEO. Affordable housing? Downtown development? Viable agriculture? Watch (or listen) as the Planning Commission discusses Local Coastal Land Use Plan (LUP) Update with the public. Missed the meeting? Watch the […]
Want to Grow Hemp? HMB City Staff and Council are Thumbs Up.
ARTICLE / VIDEO. The 2018 Farm Bill, which includes language that legalizes hemp across the U.S., was signed into law this week by President Trump. The stroke of that pen […]
Learning from the 1989 SF EARTHQUAKE ~ by Stewart Brand (Spring 1990)
PHOTO-ESSAY. This article—which first appeared in much briefer form in the Chronicle—is an attempt to reconstruct the confused events of that first two hours at Divisadero and Beach, and to distill […]
Where do You Think San Mateo County is Most Vulnerable to Climate Change Hazards?
NEW LINK. Climate change MAPPER geo-locating webpage. Drop a pin and upload a picture where you think there is a risk of: Wildfire Extreme Heat Precipitation Flooding and Sea Level Rise […]
Dunes Beach Hotel/RV Park Development ~ Public Turns Out to HMB City Council Meeting
VIDEO (PODCAST). If you have not emailed the City with your opinion, please do so: Jill Ekas: jekas@hmbcity.com, Community Development Director. The Dunes at Half Moon Bay website debuted Apr 2018 with plans for: […]
Fiber Optics on the Coast? Should City of HMB Treat Broadband Connectivity as a Utility?
PODCAST. When It Comes To High-Speed Internet, U.S. ‘Falling Way Behind‘ Susan Crawford says that in cities like Seoul and Stockholm, high-speed, high-capacity networks are taken for granted. “It really […]
What Do You Think of the Plans for a New Bathroom at The Jetty (Surfers’ Beach)?
VIDEO/ ARTICLE/ PHOTOS. I was riding along on my morning commute and I see some orange netting and stakes outlining a new building at the Jetty (Surfers’Beach). Later in the […]