Summary: Monday, March 17, 2014 The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors is meeting tomorrow. Tomorrow evening, the Board will be in Watsonville, meeting in the Watsonville City Council Chambers. Starting at 7:00 p.m., the Board will convene with others as the Board of Directors of Zone 7 of the Santa Cruz County Flood Control and Water Conservation District. This is the agency that, among other things, has responsibility for overseeing flood control efforts on the Pajaro River. Flood control may not be uppermost in everyone’s mind, in this time of drought, but floods on the Pajaro River are a deadly threat to residents of Watsonville and Pajaro, the unincorporated community on the other side of the Pajaro River, in Monterey County. I have put a link to the Zone 7 Agenda in today’s transcript. You can check it out at kusp.org/landuse. At 9:00 o’clock tomorrow morning, the Board will meet in Santa Cruz, at the Governmental Center on Ocean Street. Let me highlight just one item of importance. Agenda Item #56 is a proposal to make it easier to modify setbacks and related standards on lots located in rural parts of Santa Cruz County. The likely impact would be to make it easier for rural property owners to develop their rural properties. Good for the property owners, of course, but likely leading to increased development in rural areas, where services and infrastructure may be lacking. There are, in other words, both pros and cons to the proposal. More Information Land Use Links Gary Patton’s Two Worlds Blog Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Agenda – March 18, 2014 Agenda Materials, Agenda Item #56 – Zoning Code Amendments Zone 7 Agenda – 7:00 p.m. Meeting In Watsonville
