Do you live in the county’s unincorporated areas — like, McKinleyville, Cutten or anywhere farther out in the boonies? Do you want to offer input on whether/why/how you’d like to see new housing in your community?

Then you might want to check out one of this press release from the Humboldt County Planning and Building Department:

The Humboldt County Planning & Building Department is in the process of updating a document called the Humboldt County Housing Element, which identifies current and future housing needs and sets goals, policies and standards to preserve, improve and develop housing in the unincorporated areas of Humboldt County.

The Humboldt County Housing Element was last updated in 2019 and it currently serves as a blueprint for housing production, affordability, zoning updates and more in unincorporated Humboldt County through 2027. State law requires cities and counties to update their housing elements every five to eight years, and the county’s next housing element update will be due in July 2027.

While the Planning & Building Department takes on the process of updating this document over the next year, the county wants to hear from its residents. You will have the opportunity to provide input during a series of in-person community workshops to be held soon in locations across the county.

How to Attend

Upcoming community workshops to discuss the Humboldt County Housing Element update with the community will take place in:

• Eureka on Tuesday, Aug. 18 at the Wharfinger Building in the Bay Room, located at 1 Marina Way.

• Willow Creek on Wednesday, Aug. 19 at the Willow Creek Community Services District Board Room, located at 135 Willow Rd.

• Garberville on Tuesday, Aug. 25 at the Garberville Public Library, located at 715 Cedar St.

• McKinleyville on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at the McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee meeting in Azalea Hall, located at 1608 Pickett Rd.

All meetings will be held from 6 to 8 p.m., except the McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee meeting, which may run until 9 p.m. Workshops will include a brief presentation followed by a Q&A to gather community input on housing needs, barriers to housing access, fair housing strategies and the effectiveness of the previous housing element. All interested community members are encouraged to attend and share their thoughts.

The County of Humboldt is committed to providing equal access to all county programs, services and activities through the provision of accommodations for individuals with qualified disabilities as required under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). With 72 hours prior notice, a request for reasonable accommodation for these meetings can be made by calling 707-268-3737.

To receive community meeting updates or ask questions about the 2027 Humboldt County Housing Element update, please email mholtermann@co.humboldt.ca.us or call 707-268-3737 for more information.

For more information about Humboldt County’s 2027 Housing Element update, please visit HumboldtGov.org/2027HousingElementUpdate.

Update from the fire management team:

Public Information: 530-625-2124 
Hours: 8 a.m.–8 p.m. 
Email: 2026.mp18@firenet.gov 
Incident Website: linktr.ee/MilePost18Fire 

Acres Burned: 7,292
Containment: 60%
Start Date: 8/7/26
Personnel:  1,837 

*** Next community meeting at 6 p.m. on August 21  at the Hoopa Valley Tribal Office. *** 

Operational Update:

The collaborative work between the day and night shifts of firefighters is paying off as the fire containment grows. The containment of the fire perimeter near to the Hoopa Community and Highway 96 have resulted in evacuation warnings being lifted in some areas. For details, see the Evacuation Section below.

The suppression line was completed between Oil Springs Rd and Mill Creek Roads. This line is a critical part of the fire’s containment line. Firefighters knew this plan and not only did they construct this line in a few days, they reinforced it, with some sections of line ranging from 700 to 1200ft deep.

A team of unmanned aerial systems (drones) have started working swing shifts alongside firefighters. One aircraft follows the perimeter and body of the fire, using infrared technology to seek undetectable heat signatures and maps the burning spots in relation to the crews and their firelines. While the first aircraft hunts for hot spots, the second aircraft is providing firing operations with Plastic Spherical Devices (PSDs), small sized spheres that can be dropped in designated areas for accurate remote firing.

Wildfires are no drone zones:

Unauthorized drones can force firefighting aircraft to stop flying, delaying suppression efforts, and allowing fires to grow. If you fly, we can’t. Help protect firefighters, communities, and our nation’s landscapes by keeping personal drones away from wildfires.

Weather:

Today is a “transition day” with the fire weather. The higher temperatures will begin to drop today as a cooler system rolls in on Friday. The cooler temperatures should bring cloud cover and moisture that will slow potential fire growth.

Evacuations:

Evacuation orders are in place for HIA-E002-A and HIA-E014-D.

Evacuation warnings have been issued for HIA-E002-B, HIA-E014-E, and HIA-E014-F.

Closures may change rapidly, so please consult protect.genasys.com for the latest alerts.

Road Closures:

Closures are in effect for Hostler Ridge Road, Mill Creek Road, and Big Hill Road due to fire activity.

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More than two dozen California Assembly Democrats and one state senator sent a letter Wednesday to legislative leaders asking them to delay fees under SB 54, the state’s landmark plastic reduction law, for two years — an eleventh-hour push as the Legislature hurtles toward the end of session.

The letter, addressed to Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, was signed by 23 Assemblymembers and Sen. Melissa Hurtado. It asks lawmakers to pause fee assessment and collection this year and next, commit to a “reform package” next session, and increase legislative oversight of the program going forward.

The request lands amid a broader fight over how the plastics law is rolling out. Little by little California is demanding that the packages you pick up at your doorstep or at the store contain less plastic. A law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed four years ago aims to phase out 25% of non-recyclable, non-compostable plastic by 2032.

To get there, the state tasked a nonprofit, the Circular Action Alliance, with drafting a plan to meet the state goals. The group estimated the work would cost $17.2 billion over five years – and is asking for a three-year exemption from the source-reduction deadline.

But as the state moves to implement the law, questions are mounting over how the organization calculates the fees producers — and eventually consumers — will pay, and how much oversight the group actually faces.

Industry groups say the price tag for complying with the law could be tens of billions of dollars higher than California originally estimated. An industry-commissioned study found the law could cost consumers three times what the state projected — between $683 and $948 a year, rather than $190.

That means groceries, shampoo bottles and other consumer goods packed in plastic could cost a little more as the law takes effect.

The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, which oversees implementation, declined an interview but said in a written statement that the law puts consumers first and pushes producers to design packaging with recycling in mind.

“Californians are facing rising costs and pollution from increasingly complex packaging that wasn’t designed for the recycling systems local governments, ratepayers, and the state developed and funded over the past four decades,” said CalRecycle director Zoe Heller. “The law’s rollout is a dial, not a switch, giving producers flexibility to redesign packaging, invest in recycling systems, reduce single-use plastics, and make adjustments along the way,” she added.

Watching the watchers

The Circular Action Alliance published its fee schedule in June, spelling out what each producer owes into the system. The fees could add up to more than $10 million for some businesses, according to the Dairy Institute of California. The Dairy Institute is a trade association that represents milk processors and dairy product manufacturers.

But unlike a state agency, the Circular Action Alliance answers to almost no one, said Katie Davey, executive director of the Dairy Institute.

“[The alliance] does not have to go through an audit by the state auditor. They’re not subject to the (California open government law) Brown Act. They’re not subject to public records requests. The Legislature does not approve their budget and does not approve how many employees they need, or how many fees they can charge,” Davey said.

As a private nonprofit, Circular Action Alliance indeed is not subject to the Brown Act or public-records law — but records it submits to CalRecycle or other government entities may be.

Plastic waste in a recycling bin at a home in Sacramento on June 30, 2022. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

CalRecycle must approve its fee schedule and implementation plan, and has the authority to audit the organization’s performance, said CalRecycle spokesperson Lance Klug, who added that the plastics law includes provisions to ensure the group’s budget and fees are appropriate.

The alliance’s role “is not to set California policy,” said its spokesperson, Larine Urbina. “Our role is to implement the framework established by SB 54 under CalRecycle’s oversight.”

Davey said the gap extends to enforcement. Businesses that fall short will face so-called malus fees, which fund bonuses for those that comply. But the Circular Action Alliance hasn’t said what those fees will be.

Shane Gusman, a lobbyist for the Teamsters, which represents hundreds of thousands of California workers, raised similar concerns. “They’re a wholly independent nonprofit organization that has no oversight. That’s part of the problem.” The union backed the plastics law hoping it would boost jobs; Guzman now says the fees could affect workers too.

Shortly after the alliance published its fee schedule, Davey and a coalition of industry leaders — including the California Restaurant Association, the California League of Food Producers, the American Forest and Paper Association and the Print Creative Alliance — commissioned a study disputing CalRecycle’s numbers.

It found CalRecycle’s 2025 estimate of $21 billion in implementation costs, or $190 a year per California household, rests on “idealized assumptions that fail to capture real-world costs and complications the regulations will create.”

The study puts the number somewhere between $35 and $58 billion, rising after the implementation period.

Klug of CalRecycle said the agency’s earlier reports were just estimates. “The actual costs will be determined by producer choices,” he said. “These costs, for example, will reflect the infrastructure needed to recycle materials that producers are choosing to use.”

Agriculture groups push back

The biggest hurdle for producers is cutting plastic use 25% by 2032 — which state regulators say will require redesigning packaging and shifting toward reusable products, such as dishes at restaurants and paper-based packaging for produce.

Business groups say they support the state’s goals but call the timeline unworkable.

Food safety is one sticking point: alternatives like paper-based containers for berries are less breathable and spoil faster, while heavier glass or cardboard adds transportation costs, said Casey Creamer, president of the California Fresh Fruit Association.

“We just don’t want to force something out and not be able to deliver a fresh, healthy commodity, or create a situation that has more significant or adverse environmental concerns just because we look at plastics and packaging in a silo,” Creamer said.

Environmental groups oppose any pause.

A pallet of fresh strawberries at a warehouse in Davis on July 28, 2026. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney, CalMatters

“All of us pay for plastic pollution through higher garbage bills and clean-ups of polluted beaches and waterways, not to mention the damage to our environment and our health,”said Nick Lapis, director of advocacy for Californians Against Waste.

Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat representing coastal Los Angeles County who authored the law, said it’s time plastic producers are held accountable for the waste they produce.

“This 11th-hour Hail Mary is only trying to maintain status quo and avoid due responsibility, throwing years of good-faith negotiations, and affordability and sustainability improvements out the window,” he said in a statement about producers’ efforts to pause implementation of the law.

Businesses pass costs to consumers

Whether the plastics law is actually driving up grocery prices yet is hard to pin down. Creamer said businesses may already be factoring the organization’s planned fees into their prices.

Federal data show grocery prices dipped slightly in July from June, though prices have climbed year over year and that rate is accelerating, said Richard Volpe, a consumer-price expert at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Neither the USDA nor the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released August figures, and no data yet isolates the state plastics law’s effect from broader inflation.

Volpe said retailers, who run on thin margins, will eventually pass costs on to consumers — but probably not right away.

“It will not happen overnight,” he said. “And it will still be relatively small, mostly on the order of pennies on the dollar.”

Industry groups warn it will add up.

“If someone’s even on the cusp of food insecurity and they’re looking at $1,000 more a year, that’s pushing them over the food cliff,” said Nate Rose, a spokesperson for the California Grocers Association.

The Teamsters, which backed the plastics law hoping it would boost jobs, now worry the fees could affect workers too.

The law “has been morphed into something that is going to cost California consumers a substantial amount of money at a time when I don’t know if we need to spend thousands more on groceries,” said Gusman, the Teamsters lobbyist. “That also has an impact on the workforce.”

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The Trump administration announced Tuesday it is rolling back a rule prohibiting logging and road construction in undeveloped parts of national forests, including more than 4 million acres of federally managed forest lands in California.

The change could open some of California’s most remote backcountry to new roads and development — even as U.S. Forest Service research shows that roads are a major source of wildfire ignitions in the state’s national forests.

People start most of California’s wildfires, including on federal land — and it’s not just sparks from faulty power lines. Fires can start in many ways: A hiker might burn toilet paper in the backcountry, a hot tub might be miswired, or someone might drag a tow chain or pull a hot car onto dry grass.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, who first announced the plan last year, said today that federal officials filed a proposal and environmental impact statement to rescind the rule in order to reduce barriers to managing fuels on public lands.

“For too long, outdated restrictions have kept tens of millions of forested acres off-limits to the very treatments that improve forest health and reduce wildfire risk to our communities,” Rollins said in a statement.

But in California, the U.S. Forest Service’s own research points to a complication: Roads and the people who travel on them are known conduits for fire.

Scientists with the U.S. Forest Service mapped 26 years of fire ignitions along roughly 850 miles of roads in the Angeles, San Bernardino, Los Padres and Cleveland national forests. All of them, according to a Forest Service map, also contain roadless reaches.

The mapping effort revealed that nearly two-thirds of the fires people caused in these forests sparked along roadsides — places where people, the sparks they create, and fuel in the form of flammable, invasive grasses often converge.

California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot said that the roadless rule has not hindered California’s forest management and prescribed fire efforts.

“In fact, more than 240,000 acres of roadless land in California have undergone vegetation treatments to reduce wildfire risk and protect nearby communities,” Crowfoot said in a letter to Rollins last September. He cited an example in the Caples Creek roadless area south of Lake Tahoe, which he said helped shield communities during the 2021 Caldor Fire.

Crowfoot warned that opening these areas to construction, timber harvests and mining “may put rural communities at increased risk of fire and significantly increase firefighting costs of California.”

A National Pattern

It’s not just California. A recent, peer-reviewed study by scientists with The Wilderness Society reported earlier this year that wildfire ignitions in national forests across the country are four times more likely near roads. From 1992 to 2024, wildfire ignition densities were lowest in designated wilderness areas, followed by roadless areas. They were highest within 50 meters of roads.

“Opening our backcountry forests to more roads and development, and therefore more ignitions, is also not a wildfire solution, and never will be,” Josh Hicks, The Wilderness Society’s director of conservation campaigns, said in a statement.

The Trump administration said rescinding the rule doesn’t automatically mandate timber harvests or building roads. Instead, it would leave decisions to local national forest managers.

“Future land management decisions would be based on natural resource conditions and needs and informed by states, tribes, and communities,” the Agriculture Department’s announcement said today.

Why more roads?

Environmental advocates are skeptical, especially in light of the Trump administration’s executive order last year calling for an “immediate expansion of American timber production.”

The roadless rule also already allows for roads to be constructed or rebuilt to protect health and safety from the threat of wildfire.

Retired U.S. Forest Service chiefs, including one who served during the first Trump administration, said in an opinion piece last year that repealing the rule threatens key watersheds and wildlife.

“Why build more roads when the agency, strapped for resources, can’t even maintain the ones that already exist?” they asked. “Let’s not forget the reasons these backcountry areas do not have roads. The easily accessible high-value timber from national forests has been harvested. What little that remains in these roadless backcountry areas is difficult and costly to access.”

U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, a California Democrat and ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, blasted the Trump administration for moving forward on rescinding the rule during a catastrophic fire season following the Trump administration’s slashing of the U.S. Forest Service. He vowed to fight it in Congress.

“The Trump administration is at again, selling out our public lands to corporate polluters, ignoring the overwhelming objections of the American people,” Huffman said in a statement. He added: “It’s reckless.”

The public has until midnight on Sept. 21st to comment.

Linda Joyce Cidoni
June 15, 1954 – August 2, 2026

Linda Joyce Cidoni passed away peacefully, surrounded by her daughters, on August 2, 2026.

Linda was born in San Francisco on June 15, 1954, and moved to Rio Dell shortly after her birth, where she was raised. She attended school in Scotia and later attended St. Bernard’s High School. She went on to graduate from Frederick’s Beauty School in Eureka and worked doing nails in Fortuna for several years.

Linda held many different jobs throughout her life. Her first job was at Bertain’s Laundry in Scotia, and over the years she also worked at a dialysis center in Eureka. In her 50s, she purchased and operated LC’s 101 Cafe in Rio Dell for several years.

More than any particular job or place, Linda will be remembered for two lifelong loves: music and animals.

Music was a large part of Linda’s life from the time she was young. In her 20s, she sang and played guitar with the Backroads Band, performing at festivals and events in the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in California. She loved to sing and play music, and that love remained a part of her throughout her life.

Linda also had an extraordinary love for animals. She was happiest when animals were part of her world and was rarely without them. Horses held an especially meaningful place in her heart. Growing up, she had a horse named Summer, whom she continued to talk about fondly throughout her life. Many years later, she once again had a beloved horse, Heidi, who was still part of her life when she passed away.

Over the years, Linda cared for all kinds of animals — horses, dogs, birds, and even some of the wild creatures that found their way into her life. She had a soft spot for animals of every kind and often seemed to find companionship and comfort in them. Her love for them was one of the most constant parts of her life.

Linda’s journey took her through many different places and chapters. She moved often and lived a life that was uniquely her own, but eventually she found her way back to where her story had begun. In her 50s, Linda purchased a home in Rio Dell, and Rio Dell remained her home for the rest of her life.

She was raised in the Catholic faith.

The family would like to extend their heartfelt gratitude to the staff of Redwood Memorial Hospital, Tammy Boling, and First Responder Josh Khemraj for the compassionate care, kindness, and support they provided during Linda’s final hours.

Linda is survived by her daughters, Christine Kuhnlenz and Leah Kuhnlenz; her brothers, Stephen Cidoni and Thomas Cidoni; her sister, Diane Dixon Ratterman; her grandchildren, Edward, Brodie, Gianna, Riley, and Olivia; and her great-grandchildren, Brielle, Beckham, Christina, Arianna, and Peyton.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Patricia Dixon; her father, Stephen Cidoni; and her brother, Edmund Dixon.

Arrangements were entrusted to Goble’s Fortuna Mortuary in Fortuna, California.

In accordance with Linda’s wishes, private services will be held. 

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In a split vote at last night’s meeting, the Eureka City Council narrowly approved a permit application for five vacation rental units in a converted Victorian on J Street, overturning a previous decision by the Eureka Planning Commission to limit the number of short-term rentals on the parcel to three units, with two long-term rentals.

The action passed in a 3-2 vote, with councilmembers Leslie Castellano and Kati Moulton dissenting. Both Castellano and Moulton sided with the planning commission, arguing that vacation rentals (Airbnb, Vrbo, etc.) eat into the city’s limited housing supply.

The applicants, Kathleen Stanton and Chris Morse, have been operating the five-unit vacation rental at 1120 J Street for the past two years. The couple submitted a permit application to the city in 2024, but planning staff deemed it incomplete due to an inadequate site plan and a zoning issue on the property.

“The appellants [Stanton and Morse] did not reply to the incomplete letter sent by planning staff. Therefore, [the permit application] expired,” assistant city planner Taylor Rayburn explained at last night’s meeting. “Since then, the vacation rentals have operated without a permit, though it is unclear if the appellants continued to operate the rentals following their appeal of the planning commission’s decision.”

Addressing the council, Stanton explained that she misunderstood the city’s permitting process for vacation rentals when she first applied, and was unaware she was operating without a permit until December 2025. She added that she had not booked any stays at the J Street property since the June 10 planning commission meeting.

“In 2024, we paid the fee, we filled out the application with our property manager, and that’s all you have to do in Arcata,” Stanton said, adding that she and her husband operate a vacation rental in Arcata as well. “Then we came to the City of Eureka, and found that it wasn’t just simple like that. You have, like, five different departments that review your application. … I got a letter from [the] planning [department] … and I just put it in the file, and I completely forgot about it. I didn’t think that that letter meant that we would never be permitted.”

The couple discovered their vacation rental wasn’t permitted ten months later when they received another letter from the city.

“That was news to us,” she said. “[After that], we worked really closely, very intensely with staff for about three months, and spent $35,000 to take the art studio and make it into a legal residential unit, and … came up with a plan to pay back the TOT [transient occupancy tax] as well. We got everything in compliance under the old ordinance, and staff said ‘You’re good to go!’ and that’s what went before the planning commission.”

Stanton said she understood the city’s concerns about the “intensity” of five vacation rentals operating on a single property, but she didn’t see how operating three short-term units was all that different. 

“The report … does not clearly articulate why three are considered acceptable, while five are not,” she said. “What changes when you go from three vacation rentals to five?”

A little earlier in the discussion, Rayburn noted that, according to the city’s General Plan, dwelling units smaller than 500 square feet are “considered affordable-by-design.” That means, at least two of the units on the J Street property fall under the affordable housing designation.

“Therefore, the project as proposed would remove two to three affordable housing units from the market in conflict with policy H-5.3,” Rayburn said.

Stanton’s attorney, Chris Hamer, disputed this point and accused staff of using the section of code to justify the planning commission’s finding that permitting all five units would limit the availability of small, low-cost housing units in the city.

“It just applies to affordable housing, and it only states that the city should support the retention of existing affordable rental housing where feasible and encourage the replacement of lost units,” Hamer said. “They pulled this ‘affordable-by-design’ definition out of … policy H-1.16 that just states that builders should be encouraged to build smaller units.”

Another issue brought up by the planning commission was the number of people allowed on the premises. Stanton said she would be willing to reduce the number from 22 to 12 adults.

Moulton | Screenshot

During the council’s discussion, Councilmember Moulton asked how many vacation rentals are currently operating in the city. Caitlin Castellano, deputy director of development services, estimated that vacation rentals account for about 1.5% of the city’s housing stock.

“I don’t know what the actual percentage is in other jurisdictions, but I’ve looked at a bunch of example caps, and they’re usually set at like 4% or 5% unless you’re talking about like Carmel or Lake Tahoe, where it’s a much higher percentage,” Development Services Director Cristin Kenyon added.

Councilmember Castellano asked if staff had seen an uptick in vacation rental applications in the city. Staff said growth has been “pretty steady” over the years, estimating that the city receives around 10 applications annually.

Councilmember G. Mario Fernandez, who appeared via Zoom, asked about the timing of the application and if it was submitted before the city implemented the new zoning code earlier this year, which increased restrictions on vacation rentals. 

Castellano, the staffer, confirmed that the final application was submitted and approved just a few days before the ordinance took effect.

Two people spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting. One resident expressed concerns about parking on J Street but said he didn’t necessarily have a problem with a vacation rental operating on the property. Another spoke in favor of the proposal and praised the owners’ work in renovating the property.

As the discussion approached the one-hour mark, Councilmember Scott Bauer made a motion to approve the permit application as originally proposed with all five vacation rental units. He added a condition to limit the number of people staying on the property to 12 adults. Councilmember Fernandez offered a second.

Councilmember Castellano said she wouldn’t support the motion, underscoring the need for affordable housing options. She claimed that the applicants “have spoken against affordable housing in Arcata,” but didn’t provide any additional context. 

Castellano | Screenshot

“We have a social agreement to ensure that the lives of all people in our communities are filled with opportunity,” Castellano said. “That’s why I’m here on council is to fulfill that social agreement, which means that I’m going to continue to support options for people who live here.”

“I just want to say I also really appreciate the work you’ve done in terms of restoration and rehabilitation of properties and the care you put in your properties,” she added. “I think that you’re doing a good job as landlords and … I really respect your work in the community.”

Councilmember Moulton took a similar stance, emphasizing that “any housing is more housing,” even if it doesn’t fall under the “low-income” bracket.

“One of the issues is that people are underhoused [or] people are overhoused [or] people are in the wrong place because there are not enough places available,” she said. “If you make an expensive apartment available, a different apartment will open up. … Any housing added adds affordable housing, and it doesn’t really matter what the price of the actual housing is.”

Councilmembers Bauer and Fernandez both felt the applicants had navigated the process in good faith and worked with staff to resolve the issues with their application. Bauer felt it would be “unfair to change things midstream,” and reiterated that the number of vacation rentals operating in the city is under 2%.

Bauer | Screenshot

“We do need all kinds of housing, and we’re doing our best to build affordable housing,” he said. “I don’t think this one house is going to change [that]. I’m not trying to be flippant or anything; I just think this is an appropriate action to take.”

But before voting, Councilmember Castellano made a substitute motion to uphold the planning commission’s ruling, which was seconded by Moulton. With Councilmember Renee Contreras-DeLoach absent, the vote tied 2-2.

Before breaking the tie, Mayor Kim Bergel asked staff if the application was processed before the new zoning rules took effect, if the city would have the authority to pull the permit if there were any issues down the line and if the TOT payment plan was in place. Staff confirmed all three points and Bergel voted against the substitute motion.

The first motion passed in a 3-2 vote, with Castellano and Moulton dissenting.

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Notice via Caltrans District 1 Facebook:

PLAN FOR OVERNIGHT NB 101 CLOSURE BY EUREKA DMV 8/23: All northbound U.S. 101 lanes at the Eureka Slough Bridge are scheduled to be closed from 10 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, to 6 a.m. Monday, Aug. 24. Route 255 is available as a state highway detour. Please allow extra time.

The closure will allow PG&E crews to use a crane to install new power poles and restore power lines near the bridge. Southbound U.S. 101 will remain open.