Big Wave: Download the public comments

Big Wave: Download the public comments

Well over two hundred people sent in comments on the Big Wave proposal. Montara Fog is making all of the comments available for download--it is a big (15 mb) file. Click here to download the Big Wave comments. They are in pdf format. Thanks to Sabrina Brennan for obtaining thes...

Neil Merrilees, new MCC Chair

Neil Merrilees, new MCC Chair

New MCC Chair Neil Merrilees Neil Merrilees, the moderate candidate who won a seat on the MCC two years ago after being endorsed by both the League for Coastside Protection and rival Put Community First, was named chairman of the Council by a unanimous vote of the newly seated members...

Newly elected Directors take seats on Fire Board

Newly elected Directors take seats on Fire Board

The three recently elected Directors of the Coastside Fire Protection District took their seats on Wednesday. Gary Burke and Ginny McShane won re-election while Gary Riddell, who received the largest share of votes on the coastside, won a seat on the Board. Board member JB Cockr...

Full video of Coastal Commission hearing on LCP

Full video of Coastal Commission hearing on LCP

The video is about two and a half hours long. The Local Coastal Plan, commonly referred to as "the LCP" had a major hearing at the Coastal Commission on December 10th where the Commission unanimously rejected seven recommendations from San Mateo County. The County and the Coastal...

Highlights from Big Wave hearing

Highlights from Big Wave hearing

The videos from last week’s hearing on the proposed Big Wave development have proven popular so I thought it might be useful to present a sample of the public comments in shorter form. The following two, ten-minute videos capture the essence of the public comments made for and against B...

What is Big Wave?



You may have heard about a large, proposed development project by the airport called "Big Wave." The proposed project, perhaps the largest ever on the San Mateo coast, encompasses a business park of 225,000 square feet and an adjoining 75,000 square foot sanitarium for the developmentally disabled. This video, made during an earlier public comment period, addresses the basic issues surrounding Big Wave and offers a concise introduction to this complicated proposal. It runs about eight minutes. (The current deadline for comments is December 22nd.)

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