In the past few weeks, Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers have appointed several new commissioners, including a former Ventura mayor and the first member from Del Norte County. While they haven’t yet met as a group, the new members’ collective track records are solidly pro-environmental.
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved not one but two new sets of regulations that have been criticized as overregulation — unless you knew that both received extensive public airings and were subjected to considerable debate.
The vacation rental ordinance joins Santa Cruz County with other communities that have sought to limit temporary rentals, including Capitola, Monterey and Carmel. It passed 4-1, with Supervisor Greg Caput dissenting.
Public hearing TO CONSIDER EXTENDING A TEMPORATY MORATORIUM ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF VACATION RENTAL USE WITHIN THE COASTAL ZONE PORTIONS OF THE UNINCORPORATED AREA OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY FOR AN ADDITIONAL PERIOD OF TIME UP TO A MAXIMUN OF 10 MONTHS AND 15 DAYS.
See meeting notice at:
http://www.sccoplanning.com/html/policy/prop_vacation_rental_ord.html
Thursday morning outside the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum, representatives from the Save the Waves Coalition officially announced that a Santa Cruz surf zone had been formally approved as a World Surfing Reserve.
We are totally STOKED to announce that the Santa Cruz City and County coast from Natural Bridges State Park to the Opal Cliffs has been chosen as one of three new World Surfing Reserves for 2011!
Aptos Creek is running across Rio del Mar State Beach as it seeks an outlet to the ocean — but it’s also running through a number of bureaucracies, none of which seem capable of making a common-sense decision.