The council – which voted 4-1 with Councilmember Renee Contreras-DeLoach dissenting – approved $40,000 for an outside consultant to help create an overlay zone: which can direct certain aspects of development within specific neighborhoods, such as increasing or decreasing residential density, though the council noted they lean toward using it for the former purpose.
The “mixed neighborhood” overlay zone – a planning tool that can be used to increase or reduce flexibility for certain types of development, depending on the zone’s stated objectives – talks come in the wake of concern over the Jacobs campus, which was recently acquired by the mysterious AMG-Communities LLC, which filed articles of incorporation days before the purchase and have not disclosed their investors. According to the city staff report, imposing an overlay zone around the campus could give the city more control over what can be developed on-site.
In her op-ed, “Reflecting on a decade of public service” (Times-Standard, March 15, Page A4), former Eureka City Councilmember and current Humboldt County Supervisor Natalie Arroyo says Eureka pays City Councilmembers $500 a month, which is $6,000 a year. While this is true, once again we have an elected official providing us with a half-truth […]
In a first for the country, Humboldt County has recognized March 19th as a Two-Spirit day of Celebration and Awareness. Held on the spring equinox, the holiday highlights the Two-Spirit identity, described as an umbrella term as an intersection of Indigenous and LGBTQ+ identities representing a range of sexual and gender expression.