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The man in charge of California’s Department of Motor Vehicles finally had to face tough questions Tuesday about what his agency is doing to address an increase in road deaths in recent years.

Though he didn’t provide many answers.

DMV Director Steve Gordon told lawmakers that he didn’t know if his agency had the ability to speed up license suspensions, didn’t know if he could get data for lawmakers on how often the agency takes action against dangerous drivers, and wasn’t familiar with numbers – that his agency provided CalMatters just last week – showing the DMV rarely investigates motorists who get in crashes seriously injuring or killing people.

Gordon did, however, assure lawmakers at various times that the seeming lack of details or direct response to questions was because the DMV’s operations are “complex,” “very inside baseball,” and “extremely nuanced.”

“I can follow up in detail with your office,” he told one senator.

Gordon’s grilling came at a state Senate informational hearing jointly held by the public safety and transportation committees. It appears to be the first such legislative hearing focused on DUIs, traffic laws and roadway fatalities in decades.

Sen. Dave Cortese, a Democrat from San Jose, cited CalMatters’ License to Kill series as the inspiration. The project has found that the state of California – led by the DMV – routinely allows dangerous drivers with horrifying histories to continue to get behind the wheel, where they go on to kill. The series also revealed that California has some of the nation’s weakest DUI laws and courts across the state failed to report vehicular homicide convictions to the DMV.

Legislators this session have so far introduced a dozen road safety bills aimed at addressing the issues and cracking down on dangerous driving. Tuesday’s hearing was an opportunity to press officials, researchers and advocates on these and other possible solutions. For close to four hours lawmakers talked to road safety and legal experts including a judge, a police chief, a prosecutor, a defense attorney and an advocate with Mothers Against Drunk Driving whose own son was killed.

But the senators saved their most pointed questions for the director of the DMV.

During an extended back-and-forth with Gordon, Cortese repeatedly asked why it was so hard for his staff to get basic data from the DMV as lawmakers weigh new DUI laws. Sen. Caroline Menjivar, a Democrat from Van Nuys, wanted to know how drivers with 15 offenses can keep their licenses. Sen. Catherine Blakespear, a Democrat from Encinitas, questioned why the agency can move quickly on things like road tolls, but “puts up a wall” on potential life-saving measures, such as expanding in-car breathalyzers to block drunk driving.

“The DMV, when they feel it’s important, can act quickly. But then there are these other things that seem to be really stuck in molasses,” Blakespear said.

Gordon has avoided talking about the issue in the nearly year since the series launched, declining repeated interview requests and showing no signs publicly that it’s a top priority. In his first public comments, he often dodged questions and said the DMV’s work involves juggling multiple antiquated technology systems.

Gordon said the agency’s driver safety division was not his first priority when he was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019, but that it has since emerged as an area of focus.

“I’ll admit that wasn’t the first team we attacked, because we were worried about lines and Real ID and a bunch of other things that were occurring,” Gordon said. In the three years since, he said the department has begun to update its processes but that “there’s still much more to do.”

Multiple lawmakers pressed Gordon on specific ways the DMV’s systems fail to hold deadly drivers accountable.

Menjivar, who last month proposed a bill to lengthen suspensions for reckless driving, zeroed in on drivers who “slipped through the cracks” while amassing horrifying histories of reckless driving.

Since state law says the DMV “may conduct an investigation” after a fatal crash, she asked why the department told CalMatters it opened only around 3,300 “negligent operator cases” from 2022 through 2024, when state data shows nearly 55,000 fatal or serious injury crashes. Would it help, she asked, if legislators changed the law to say that the DMV “shall” investigate major crashes?

“It’s not a question of a ‘shall’ or a ‘may,’” Gordon said, adding that he could not recall specific investigation numbers on the spot. “I believe we have the capacity we need to investigate every case that comes to us.”

Sen. Jesse Arreguín, an Oakland Democrat who chairs the Senate Public Safety Committee, focused on the case of Kostas Linardos, who drove a three-ton pickup truck at high speed into the back of a sedan in late 2022 after years of wracking up tickets for speeding and reckless driving.

“The case that was in CalMatters yesterday, you know, a toddler lost their life because we didn’t flag this earlier in the process and this person was allowed to drive,” Arreguín said. “We’re talking about people’s lives. That’s what we’re trying to protect here.”

From left, state. Sens. Dave Cortese and Jesse Arreguín co-chair a joint informational hearing on California’s DUI and traffic safety laws at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on March 10, 2026. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters

Gordon told lawmakers that his agency is conducting a review to make sure the unit responsible for driver safety is getting all of the information on drivers that it needs to act from other parts of the agency. However, he offered no details and when approached by a CalMatters reporter as he left the hearing Gordon would only say, “we’re not doing press today,” before exiting the building.

In the hearing room, lawmakers continued to listen to horror stories.

Napa District Attorney Allison Haley recounted a recent case in her office where a driver had 13 DUIs. In another, she recalled, a driver killed two people but served virtually the same amount of time as if he’d killed one. Proposed legislation would address these issues, adding prison time for repeat DUI offenders and drivers who kill multiple victims in a crash.

“This isn’t Costco. We don’t want a system where you can kill one person and kill another person — or more — for free,” Haley said. “And that’s currently the situation that we have.”

Other witnesses at the hearing pushed back on the need for stronger criminal sentencing, focusing instead on ways to redesign roads or encourage more proactive substance abuse treatment. Ramping up jail time or other punishment, they argued, may have disproportionate impacts on first-time offenders or poor defendants.

For Tara Repka Flores, none of this is theoretical. She lived through the horror one day in 2019, when she got a call that Alec — a magnetic 13-year-old athlete, meal prepper and her beloved son — was run down on his way to school in Sutter County. He was hit by another school parent who was driving her own three kids to school drunk.

She urged the assembled senators to do absolutely everything in their power to try to save as many families as possible from a similar fate.

“Ignition interlock? Yes. Stronger sentencing? Yes. Accountability for hit and run drivers? Yes,” she said. “Yes to all of it. Stop other people from getting killed.”

Timothy Paul Cissna passed away on February 16, 2026 from Lewy Body Dementia. He was at home in Arcata with his wife and son at the time of his passing.

Tim was born in San Francisco on July 24, 1950 to Norman Clark Cissna and Jeanne Miller Cissna. He moved with his parents and older brother, Ken, to Eureka in 1952. His younger sisters Kathy and Eileen were born in Eureka.

Tim was a happy baby and friendly little boy. Family photos always showed him with a huge smile. His parents instilled the love of the outdoors in all four children. They had many camping, backpacking and horse packing trips, as well as long family trips in the station wagon with all four kids in the back seats. They fished, swam and had adventures while playing in the water and outdoors.

Tim loved sports; he played football in junior high and then swam butterfly on the Eureka High School swim team. He graduated from Eureka High School in 1968 and then attended Humboldt State University (now Cal Poly Humboldt), where he graduated in 1972. He was captain of the water polo team at Humboldt State and swam butterfly on the swim team. He enjoyed golfing for many years and even had a hole in one at Baywood on Hole #5 in 1981. He also served as president at Baywood, as well as spending time on the board. Tim and Sharon were long-time supporters of Humboldt athletics and enjoyed attending football and basketball games and getting to know the student athletes. He enjoyed watching the Giants, Warriors and 49ers, and took his family on many trips to catch a Giants series.

He started dating his wife, Sharon, while attending Humboldt State. He took her to a party on one of their first dates and told his sister Kathy, “this is the woman I am going to marry.” Sharon didn’t hear the story until after they were married. Tim and Sharon were married in Eureka in 1972. They lived in San Francisco while Tim attended Hastings College of Law, where he graduated in 1976. They then moved to Bayside, where they lived until 2001, before moving to Arcata. He practiced law as a defense attorney for 20 years before he was appointed as a Superior Court Judge, where he served for the next 20 years.

Their son, Kevin, was born after Tim finished law school and he and Sharon had moved back to Eureka. Tim loved attending Kevin’s school activities and never missed one of his sporting events. He kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings from every time Kevin made the local newspaper. He was honored to be the officiant at Kevin’s wedding to his wife Kat in 2017. He was so proud of Kevin and loved watching him become a wonderful person and loving father and husband. He loved his grandsons Ryan and Eli and enjoyed making them laugh. He was so happy watching them learn to walk and talk and become beautiful little boys.

Tim was a strong believer in ethics and fairness, and as an attorney and a judge, he took the responsibility to uphold those beliefs very seriously. He also said that one of the best parts of being a judge was performing adoptions and weddings because everyone was always so happy.

Tim loved the outdoors and he loved to travel. Tim, Sharon, Kevin and their friends enjoyed many backpacking trips in the Trinity Alps and Marble Mountains, where Tim passed on his love of the outdoors and wildlife. Tim and Sharon loved kayaking in the local lagoons and Humboldt Bay with a group of special friends. Their travels took them to many amazing places all over the world. Tim’s favorite was Africa, and they were able to travel there multiple times on various photo safaris. They were fortunate to be able to travel, and he always believed it was important to not wait until you were retired, or the time was just right. He lived this belief while sitting with gorillas, watching polar bears and dogsledding through Wyoming.

Tim loved his family, he loved his friends and he loved having fun. He had such a wonderful group of friends, and he enjoyed travel, adventures and laughter with all of them. Kevin and his cousins remember much laughter as he played “Red Light, Green Light” with them when they were young. Friends have memories of the secret delivery of a decorated Charlie Brown Christmas tree on their front porch, and he was infamous for his gas operated blender at the Humboldt tailgate parties before the football games. Even though his disease took away so much from him he still loved going to lunch with friends, attending the Humboldt Basketball games and talking to people at the gym or in the woods. He leaves behind an incredible group of friends. Wherever he went he would always see a friend and they would laugh and enjoy a good memory. Thank you for being his friend.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Norman and Jeanne Cissna and his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Jim and Helen Berg. He is survived by his loving wife, Sharon, his son, Kevin, his daughter-in-law, Kat, and his two beautiful grandsons, Ryan and Eli. He is also survived by his brother, Ken Cissna (Beth Roberts), sisters, Kathy Dias and Eileen Stocum (Robin), sister-in-law, Bonnie Rahm, nieces Megan Dias, Shelby Dias, Carrie Bibonge (Ali), Jennifer Jones (Charles), Kirsten Chappell (Tim) and nephews Tristan Dias (Julia) and Daniel Rahm (fiancée Jess Orozco). He is also survived by his great nieces and nephews, Cecilia Thompson (O’Riley), Zuri Bibonge, Barack Bibonge, Kira Bibonge, Charli Jones and Jacen Jones.

We want to thank Doctor Iverson, Doctor Cataldo, Doctor Fischer and Hospice of Humboldt for their support and kindness.

We miss him dearly and we hope the memory of his strength and his love will continue to live on in all of us.

A celebration of life will be held at Elk’s Lodge, 445 Herrick Avenue, Eureka CA, on Sunday, April 26, 2026 from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to The Walk to End Alzheimer’s, The Lewy Body Foundation, Hospice of Humboldt or a charity of your choice.

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Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 15-year-old Preston Lee Ruiz II, on a no bail warrant in connection with the shooting that occurred in Hoopa on Mar. 10, 2026.  Ruiz was taken into custody after being located at residence located off State Highway 169 near Wautec.  

Ruiz will be booked into Juvenile Hall on the following charges:

• PC 664/187-Attempted murder
• PC 182(a)-Conspiracy to commit a crime
• PC 12022-Armed during the commission of a felony

 As a result of the ongoing investigation, detectives with the Humboldt County Major Crimes Division have obtained No Bail warrants for the following individuals:

• Tse-Lin Qhaba Red Cloud Perry Wayne Lincoln, Indian male Adult 19-years-old of Hoopa
• William Randolph “Billy” Warren, also known as William “Bubbz” Lincoln, Indian Male Adult, 18-years-old of Hoopa

They are wanted for the following charges:

• PC 664/187-Attempted murder
• PC 182(a)-Conspiracy to commit a crime
• PC 12022-Armed during the commission of a felony

This investigation is active and anyone with any information about this case or the whereabouts of the listed suspects is asked to contact the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or by calling the Sheriff’s Office Tip Line at (707) 268-2539.

The first congressional race following the voter-supported gerrymandering of District Two, represented by Jared Huffman since 2013, has brought on a crop of candidates to run against him.

The candidate filing deadline for the upcoming primary election was Friday, March 6, and at least five people are running against Congressman Huffman.

This includes Nicolette Hahn Niman, a Marin County author, former environmental attorney and rancher. Hahn Niman filed as a candidate with no party preference in paperwork submitted last week.

The representative will be tasked with championing the interests of both wealthy, ultra-liberal Marin and strongly conservative Shasta. To Hahn Niman, her independent nature and aversion to partisanship would be an advantage in this new district.

Hahn Niman, who has lived and worked on a ranch in Bolinas for 22 years, told the Outpost she’s interested in learning about concerns across the entire district, including Humboldt County.

“I believe that a single person can do that. I don’t think you have to be solely focused on the red parts of your district if you’re a Republican or the blue parts, if you’re a Democrat. I think that especially in today’s very polarized society, it is the job of whoever is sitting in this seat to reach those two communities and work across party lines,” she said.

She described her political beliefs as center, or slightly left of center. She says she’s never joined a political party in her life, but had an interest in policy from a young age and was on the city commission of Kalamazoo, Michigan. She’s served on a local church board and school board in Marin County.

Hahn Niman started looking into the idea of running following her opposition to a deal which closed dairy and cattle ranches leased in Point Reyes National Seashore for a cash payout, which Huffman was involved in negotiating (he told the Outpost he didn’t cut the deal but rather encouraged everyone to get to the table and try to work something out).

Hahn Niman is married to the founder of Niman Ranch, a network of humane livestock farms in the U.S.. The Nimans were one of two ranching families to sue the National Park Service over its move to phase out ranching operations within Point Reyes National Seashore last year, according to reporting by the Press Democrat.

She said Huffman was closely involved with “basically getting rid of those multi-generational ranching families there.”

Plus, Hahn Niman said, after speaking to some people in the rural, northern part of the district, it led her to believe Huffman is “failing to represent the issues, or even try to understand the issues of the rural parts of the district.”

“At the same time that we are hearing nationally that the Democratic Party needs so desperately to be more representative and engaged with its rural constituents and understand its rural voters better. I felt like this was an exact example of that phenomenon right here in our district,” she said.

Her campaign’s theme, she says, is about rural America being left behind. 

Huffman, however, had a different perspective of what happened in Point Reyes, and accused his political opponent of running a “single-issue candidacy.”

“Nicolette and her husband sat on the sidelines while I worked closely with the ranching community for many, many years to navigate these issues. [The Nimans] went it alone, thinking they could cut a better deal. And when that didn’t happen, they sued the federal government, and they tried to blow up the entire settlement that these ranching families worked out,” he said when reached for comment, later noting he’s been going to ranching association meetings for 14 years and has never seen Hahn Niman at one.

He also denied being absent from rural communities, pointing to his recent efforts to meet with people in the new parts of the district and efforts to support rural communities, including ranchers in Humboldt County.

“This is just a disgruntled outlier of the Marin ranching community with a personal agenda,” said Huffman, later remarking “I guess we’ve reached a point in the ethical race to the bottom of the Trump administration, where people now run for Congress, apparently to advance their own personal financial interests.”

Huffman also argued the climate for bipartisanship is tough in D.C., particularly as Trump actively punishes Republicans who work with Democrats. “It can’t be the sound of one hand clapping,” he said.

Back to Hahn Niman.

She said Humboldt County residents may be interested in her background as an environmental attorney for the Waterkeeper Alliance, pursuing litigation against farming corporations polluting water in the early 2000s.

“That’s actually kind of what put me on this whole path of beginning my work as a sustainable food and farming activist and advocate,” she said. 

At Waterkeeper she worked with RFK Jr., now US Secretary of Health and Human Services, someone she’s still friends with. If elected, she said at the very top of her list is working on policy in the continuum of food systems, health care and the connections between the two.

She identifies with pieces — but not all — of the Make America Healthy Again movement. She pointed to shared concern over ultra-processed foods, food additives, chemicals in food and food processing, and the use of chemicals and pharmaceuticals in food production. She referenced work by Democrat Tim Ryan as part of a movement toward health she was interested in working on.

“It’s clear that the way that we’re eating and the way that we’re producing food is very closely connected to the rise in all of these chronic health problems that exist today in the country,” she said, which she said is connected to food and farming.

This priority is followed by an interest in housing affordability.

In general, she says “I’m a great admirer of the natural beauty of California and just sort of helping to protect and preserve that, but I’m also a really big believer in this idea that we have to stop pitting that value against economic vitality.”

When asked about proposed plans for offshore drilling off the coast of California, she generally thinks ”we need to be open to all different kinds of sources of energy. We need to consider what the impacts are, what the implications are, what the needs are,” she said, but added she wanted to learn more about the topic before saying more. As for proposed plans for offshore wind in Humboldt County, she feels similarly; not everywhere is a good place for wind power, but said “I think everything should be on the table.”

Toward the end of her conversation with the Outpost, she noted that if elected, she’d be the first woman to represent District 2.

The district includes the counties of Humboldt, Marin, Modoc, Siskiyou, Del Norte, plus parts of Mendocino and Sonoma counties. The primary election is June 2, 2026.

There are a smattering of other candidates. Gregory Burgess, an elder caregiver, has similarly filed candidacy paperwork in Marin County. He has dedicated much of his campaign website to the Point Reyes deal.

And in Shasta County, at least three people have publicly announced their candidacy, though the Shasta County elections office declined to share a list of who’d submitted their paperwork to the Outpost. 

“Please refer to the secretary of state’s website for the qualified candidates which will be published on March 26, 2026, we do not publish a list of qualified candidates for State and Federal elections in our office,” an election official said in an email.

According to their respective websites, Shasta County candidates include:

• Paul Saulsbury, a Republican-registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapist
• Robin Littau, a Republican owner of a cleaning service and Christian mother of four
• Rose Penelope Yee, Chair of the Democratic Central Committee of Shasta County

Modoc County had yet to respond to a request on if anyone had filed candidacy paperwork for District 2 by publishing time. The remaining counties confirmed nobody had filed paperwork to run.

Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

On Mar. 10, 2026, at approximately 10:00 a.m., deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a residence in the 200 block of Bowie Rd. in Loleta to investigate a report that an individual, identified as 31-year-old Brandon Brumwell, was in possession of a firearm despite being prohibited from possessing firearms per the terms of his probation.

Upon arriving on scene, deputies contacted the reporting party. Based upon the information obtained during their investigation, deputies with the assistance from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Division secured a search warrant for the residence. Brumwell was contacted inside the residence and detained.

During the search of the residence pursuant to the warrant, deputies located a non-serialized AR-15 style, short barreled rifle with an extended capacity magazine and ammunition.

Brumwell was arrested and transported to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility where he was booked on the following charges:

• PC 29800(a)(1)-Felon in possession of a firearm
• PC 30305(a)(1)-Prohibited person in possession of ammunition
• PC 33215-Possession of a short barreled rifle
• PC 29180(c)-Own a firearm w/out a serial number
• PC 29805(a)(1)-Possession of a firearm w/ spec misd. conviction
• PC 32310(a)-Possession of a large capacity magazine
• PC 1203.2-Violation of probation/ rearrest/revoke

Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.

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Just when we’d resigned ourselves to a humdrum Humboldt County election season, a late challenger files paperwork to run for the soon-to-be-open Fifth District seat on the Board of Supervisors.

McKinleyville resident Evan Schwartz, the founder of several local businesses and a self-described “regular person,” filed his candidacy paperwork this week.

He’s running against ecologist Mary Burke, who entered the race nearly a year ago and has the endorsement of current Fifth District Supervisor Steve Madrone, who is not seeking re-election. 

In a phone conversation with the Outpost this afternoon, Schwartz said he learned about the community’s “triumphs and challenges” while he and his wife operated McKinleyville Central Market, a small natural foods grocery store that the couple founded and ran for about five years. 

“We started the store to serve the community and because I couldn’t get products I liked in town,” Schwartz said. “Over five years we made a ton of friends in the community.”

They closed the store in 2015 (after Eureka Natural Foods purchased the former Ace Hardware location) and then launched another business, Craft Beer Distribution Company, which supplied products to many local grocery stores. They wound up selling that business, as well — to Tomaso’s. Schwartz also founded and later sold the bottled water company Cause Water. 

“I’m not afraid to try stuff,” he remarked.

After growing up in the San Fernando Valley, Schwartz came to Humboldt County in 2003 to attend College of the Redwoods. He returned to the L.A. region and earned his real estate license before deciding to return to Humboldt, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and marketing.

He and his family have lived in McKinleyville full time since 2010, he said. In recent years his family has experienced some serious health issues, so they’ve pared back a bit on their professional endeavors. Schwartz said he’s now doing “the Humboldt thing,” meaning earning an income through “a little bit of this and that,” including selling local items through Amazon, a bit of “product brokering” and renting his RV out through the website Outdoorsy.

“We’re not really working crazy, like, work work, and that’s why this is great opportunity for me to pursue this,” Schwartz said. “I’m ready to do something again, and it’s much more interesting to me than going to work for money. I’d rather be a public servant.”

Asked what specific issues motivated him and how he differs politically from Burke, Schwartz said he mostly just wants to be “a voice of people who feel marginalized or less represented as well as those who feel represented [already].” 

He added that he’s had some frustrations dealing with the Humboldt County Planning Department when trying to get answers to business-related questions. 

A registered Democrat, he said he’s heard Burke is in favor of a “road diet” plan that would reduce roughly half a mile of McKinleyville’s Central Avenue from five lanes to three. 

“It would be horrendous to reduce [the number of lanes] on Central at certain times of day,” he said. “It would encumber a number of businesses. It just wouldn’t make sense.”

As for his campaign, he said he doesn’t yet have a website and may not start one. He hopes to organize a grassroots campaign “without spending a bunch on stuff that’s unnecessary.”

“I’m just a regular person who wants to do my part to represent my community and this distinct,” he said.

Schwartz sent us the following candidate statement:

I have lived in McKinleyville since 2010. I love being part of this community. This is my home, and I am proud to raise my family here.

In 2008, I earned my business degree from Humboldt State University and decided to put what I learned into practice locally. In 2010, I started McKinleyville Central Market, a small natural foods store and café that offered wholesome grocery options to our neighbors.

Over the following years I built and sold Craft Beer Distribution Company, a regional beverage distribution business, and Cause Water, a bottled spring water brand that used aluminum bottles to reduce plastic waste. Running these businesses connected me with the community and taught me how to solve problems, navigate regulations, and work with county, state, and federal agencies to accomplish goals.

In 2025, I briefly served as a member of the McKinleyville Community Services District Park and Recreation Committee (PARC).

I believe in community engagement and working together to build a strong future we can all enjoy.

I hope to serve District 5 with thoughtful leadership and a commitment to representing the people who live here.

I would be grateful to earn your vote.

Equipment currently being installed in a park on D Street is less jungle gym — and more real gym. 

The city council approved its installation back in October, but it’s just now being installed, a little up the block from Arcata’s D Street Neighborhood Center. Currently, the D Street Linear Park is pretty much just a narrow strip of grass with some trees up the hill from Highway 101; the only unique feature was a three-tiered set of pullup bars a few feet from the sidewalk, but that disappeared during the past couple weeks. The exercise equipment it’s being replaced with is a tad more sophisticated. 

The Combi 2 Robinia is a “compact street workout station” manufactured by Danish playground equipment company Kompan. It almost looks like a normal playset that someone forgot to add the slides to, a bunch of wooden posts sticking out of the ground with metal bars linking them and a bench sticking out on one end. That, plus a weatherproof power tower, will flesh out a 20 by 30 foot rectangle paved with decomposed granite next to D Street. 

The city is also adding a little concrete square with a picnic table at the site. 

“Enhancing this linear park will help to provide expanded recreational opportunities for a variety of age ranges,” reads the staff report. “Furthermore, given the proximity of the D Street Linear Park to Cal Poly Humboldt, staff saw this as an opportunity to enhance a recreational amenity that frequently serves college-aged students near campus.”