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The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, after a voluminous Q&A period with Humboldt County Planning and Building Director John Ford and planner Cade McNamara, booted the ordinance out to their March 5 meeting. The separate ordinances for the Humboldt Bay region and inland parts of the county can be read in full at https://bit.ly/47WTYX4

The board voted four to one – with 5th District Supervisor Steve Madrone dissenting – to lift the hiring freeze for 25 positions, mostly consisting of correctional deputy positions, but including a lateral deputy sheriff hire and a dispatcher.

The Humboldt County Sheriffs Office was given a hiring freeze exemption by county supervisors to fill 25 positions, although the agency had asked to fill 35 openings.

After private deliberations between the applicant, appellants – a neighborhood group called the Coalition for Responsible Housing – the board approved a version of the development on a 2.47 acre parcel with 17 lots and 56 units, down from the initial proposal of 19 lots and 62 units. Additionally, developer Dane Valadao agreed to reduce the four two-story residences to just two single-family, single-story homes and commit funds to road maintenance.

There are a series of forums coming up in February that will air on KEET-TV.

The $4,703,840 in estimated damages were largely concentric to county roads and bridges and could qualify for reimbursement under the California Disaster Assistance Act. Humboldt County Public Works Director Tom Mattson said that, relative to the amount of rain dumped over several days, the county “dodged a bullet.”

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