The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors has voted 5-0 to approve Midpen's 71-unit housing development in Moss Beach, ironically known as Cypress Point in "honor" of the cypress trees to be sacrificed in constructing the 16-building project.
You can thank the state for passing a new law allowing such developments to bypass normal CEQA planning requirements, and the county for turning a blind eye to Moss Beach residents' concerns about traffic/pedestrian congestion and safety, water use and resources, lack of transportation and employment and services.
Have the Supervisors ever walked the property? Have they ever visited Moss Beach on foot? Have they considered what chaos they would bring down on this peaceful seaside community?
This is an egregious example of YIMBY politicians dumping their problems (failure to act on the county's housing and transportation crises) on a remote hillside open space. So middle class and working class people who enjoy living here in scenic tranquility will now have to endure years of construction traffic, noise, and dust, then confront the new reality:
An already-jammed Highway 1 struggling to absorb hundreds of new cars (multiply 71 units by X number of vehicles per family); a small-town post office, gas station, convenience store, pizzeria, and taqueria struggling to absorb hundreds of new customers (multiply 71 units by X number of family members); a transportation grid with one crosswalk, few sidewalks, no stop signs or traffic lights, no bike lanes, cross-street traffic battling highway-speed traffic, all struggling to absorb hundreds of new drivers and pedestrians (multiply 71 units by X number of newcomers). Not a pretty picture.
This added build-out will continue to turn Moss Beach, with quiet fog and sun, into LA's beaches-- packed with people, crowded roads, and noise. All of this causes property values to go down, not up.
Posted by: Jay Bird | April 02, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Require Supervisors to visit the site on foot.
Posted by: John Maybury | March 26, 2024 at 05:29 PM