Southern Humboldt Community Park General Plan Amendment, Zone Reclassification, Conditional Use Permit and Special Permit

Southern Humboldt Community Park General Plan Amendment, Zone Reclassification, Conditional Use Permit and Special Permit

This project would add a Public Recreation designation to the Garberville Community Plan, and change the County's General Plan land use designation for the entire site to the Public Recreation designation. The current land use designation is a combination of Agricultural Rural with a 5- to 20-acre minimum lots size on 256 acres and Agricultural Lands with a 20-acre minimum lot size on 150 acres. The current zoning is Agricultural Exclusive on 393.6 acres, and Qualified Heavy Industrial (MH-Q) on the remaining 12.1 acres. This project would add a Public Facility Zoning designation to the Zoning Ordinance and change the zoning of 87 acres from Agriculture Exclusive to Public Facilities. A Qualified combining zone would be added to 306.7 acres that will continue to be zoned AE to allow certain recreational uses such as trails and temporary event parking in the AE Zone. The discretionary entitlements being requested by the applicant include the following: General Plan amendment, Rezoning, Conditional Use Permit for Medium and Large Events, and a Special Permit for cottage industry (value-added farm products, food products, nursery, and seed production), and reduced setbacks from a stream and wetland and the placement of a one-lane bridge. The applicant is also seeking to preserve 54 residential development credits that could be sold in teh future if and when the County establishes a Transfer of Development Rights Program. The parcel is served by on-site water and sewer.

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