Monterey County Land Use & Development Articles

There is possibly little doubt that the meadow known as Tarpy Flats along Olmsted Road outside of Monterey will be developed. The neighbors don’t want it to be so, but a state law is on the side of a developer…

KING CITY — King City Council has approved the Riverbed Wildfire Prevention Plan, along with its associated Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program — a significant step toward bolstering wildfire safety in the region.

SOUTH MONTEREY COUNTY — The Westside Fuel Break in South Monterey County is making significant progress, announced Cal Fire BEU on March 5.

Dan Haifley, a long-time ocean conservationist and former director of O'Neill's Sea Odyssey and Save Our Shores, gives us an update on the multiple threats to ocean ecosystems and marine sanctuaries posed by the cuts to federal staff and budgets …

Three years ago, Cardinale Stadium was packed with fans attending Monterey Bay FC’s first home game. The local United Soccer League team played several games away while the stadium modernization was still underway. Once it opened, it still looked unfinished,…

Just before 10am on Saturday, March 1, about a dozen people start trickling into a building at UC MBEST, a research facility operated by UC Santa Cruz just northeast of Imjin Parkway at Reservation Road.

Space was tight at The Bridge Restoration Ministry in Pacific Grove, a multi-phase drug rehabilitation program begun in 2006 in a historic eight-bedroom home where 22 men live and receive treatment. If a counselor came to meet with someone, there…

MONTEREY COUNTY — Adriaan Urquidez, a young adult from Monterey County, is part of a massive response to protect the burned areas of Los Angeles from taking another hit. This time from winter storms.

David Schmalz here, with some notable updates about Sand City, which doesn’t make a lot of news.

Until recently, the County of Monterey took a fragmented approach to homeless encampment cleanups in unincorporated areas. Sometimes Public Works responded, sometimes the Sheriff’s Office. Their actions were generally compassionate, says Director of Homeless Services Roxanne Wilson. She thought it…

In 2019, the Pebble Beach Company gave the City of Monterey the Old Capitol Site, a 135-acre property south of Highway 1 opposite the Del Monte Center. Subsequently, the city rezoned the land – a mostly pristine forest of Monterey…

Erik Chalhoub here, looking at a map of Fort Ord National Monument. I’ve explored nearly the entirety of the eastern portion of the park by bike, starting from the Creekside entrance just off of Reservation Road near Salinas. I’ve usually…

Host, Mathilde Rand is in conversation with Frank Barron and Rick Longinotti about the Santa Cruz Downtown Expansion.
Frank Barron is a retired urban planner and a proponent for direct input by the community on building higher than the already …

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday joined several other local elected officials and residents demanding answers into the causes of the Jan. 16 fire at the Vistra battery storage facility in Moss Landing.

Tom Little Bear is President and Chairman of the Esselen tribe of Monterey County. He discusses the land back movement to return stolen lands from native tribes, and a recent 327 -acre land acquisition on the Little Sur River in …

There are only so many ways to respond to rising seas: accommodate, protect, retreat or do nothing. These options fall on a scale, ranging from simply buying more time to longer-term solutions. They can include infrastructure changes, like elevating structures…

One day after a group of Santa Cruz County residents collected soil samples from the areas impacted by the Jan. 16 battery storage facility fire at the Moss Landing Power Plant to test for heavy metals, a San Jose State …

Trump backs Newsom's Delta plans in a big way, but are the President's sweeping anti-environmental orders so broad that the Governor and other California leaders...

A new battery storage facility slated for a lot on the outskirts of Watsonville has some residents on edge after a Jan. 16 fire at the Moss Landing Power Plant, which sent a thick column of black smoke into the …

On Thursday night, Jan. 16, the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas was packed with people attending the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s hearing on the regulations surrounding the pesticide 1,3-dichloropropene, also known as 1,3-D or by the brand name Telone.…