{"id":2141,"date":"2023-01-03T21:31:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpersonalfinance.com\/budgeting\/agendized-rezoning-eurekas-bayfront-participatory-budgeting-results-restoring-fish-passage-up-as-far-as-the-high-school-and-more-at-tonights-eureka-city-council-meeting-lost-coast-outpost\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T21:31:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:31:42","slug":"agendized-rezoning-eurekas-bayfront-participatory-budgeting-results-restoring-fish-passage-up-as-far-as-the-high-school-and-more-at-tonights-eureka-city-council-meeting-lost-coast-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpersonalfinance.com\/budgeting\/agendized-rezoning-eurekas-bayfront-participatory-budgeting-results-restoring-fish-passage-up-as-far-as-the-high-school-and-more-at-tonights-eureka-city-council-meeting-lost-coast-outpost\/","title":{"rendered":"AGENDIZED! Rezoning Eureka’s Bayfront, Participatory Budgeting Outcomes, Restoring Fish Passage Up as Far because the Excessive College, and Extra at Tonight’s Eureka Metropolis Council Assembly | Misplaced Coast Outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eureka Metropolis Corridor, the place all of the motion might be. File photograph: Andrew Goff.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n We\u2019re all kind of easing again into post-holiday life, and that goes double for the Eureka Metropolis Council, which along with presumably coming off sugar hangovers like the remainder of us can also be slowly bringing its two new members \u2014 G Mario Fernandez and Renee Contreras de Loach \u2014 up to the mark. Pretty mild agenda, in different phrases.<\/p>\n A few fascinating gadgets: Metropolis employees might be introducing a undertaking to revive fish passage all the best way up First Slough, a department of Eureka Slough that travels via Cooper Gulch and all the best way up towards the highschool. The town put a giant new fish-friendly culvert beneath Myrtle Avenue in 2019 \u2014 keep in mind that, when Myrtle was all tore up for some time? \u2014 and the present proposal would take away limitations to fish passage within the Gulch and the Ross Park neighborhoods.<\/p>\n In order that they\u2019ll be speaking about that. They\u2019ll even be persevering with their revamp of the Coastal Land Use Plan that the town will finally take to the Coastal Fee. Tonight they\u2019ll be speaking about altering the zoning standing on a very good quantity of the town\u2019s waterfront property. Because it stands, in keeping with the employees report, there are about 206 acres of the waterfront zoned for \u201cCoastal Dependent Industrial\u201d makes use of \u2014 that means, that you could solely construct trade there, and what\u2019s extra you may solely construct trade that’s one way or the other depending on the water.<\/p>\n Drawback is: Even with the present pleasure round offshore wind and the like, there’s far more land zoned for Coastal Dependent Industrial than anybody will possible discover a use for. (Facet notice: This has been a difficulty for a very long time throughout the bay, not simply in Eureka. See this Ryan Burns story from 2016 in regards to the county seeking to transfer some land on the peninsula out of CDI as a way to spur improvement.) Many of the CDI zoning is a relic of the times when there have been<\/i>\u00a0tons of commercial makes use of alongside the waterfront.<\/p>\n So metropolis employees is proposing to take about 60 p.c of these 206 acres and alter the zoning on these parcels to permit for different makes use of \u2014 housing, possibly, or retail, and even trade that’s not<\/i>\u00a0depending on coastal transport or fishing or one thing. And this might be mentioned tonight.<\/p>\n What else? The outcomes from the town\u2019s first experiment in participatory budgeting are in. A panel of residents was given $75,000 to spend on issues to enhance the standard of life of their neighborhoods, and this panel has reached a consensus. They\u2019d like to offer the majority of it \u2014 $45,000 \u2014 to residents in want, within the type of hire and utility help for people who find themselves down on their luck. The opposite $30,000 they divvy up this manner:<\/p>\n\n