RESOLUTION NO. _____________

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE SAN MATEO COUNTY PLANNING AND BUILDING DEPARTMENT TO USE A LOTTERY AND WAITING LIST SYSTEM TO ALLOCATE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR CARETAKER’S QUARTERS IN THE PRINCETON WATERFRONT DISTRICT

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RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, State of California, that:

WHEREAS, the California Coastal Act requires that facilities serving the commercial fishing and recreational boating industries be protected and, where feasible, upgraded, and encourages increased recreational boating use of coastal waters by, among other ways, limiting non-water-dependent land uses that congest access corridors and preclude boating support facilities; and

WHEREAS, the San Mateo County Local Coastal Program establishes a Waterfront District within the Princeton area for the purpose of providing and maintaining a working waterfront where marine-related trades that support commercial fishing and recreational boating are intended to be the primary land use; and

WHEREAS, the San Mateo County Zoning Regulations that implement the Local Coastal Program restrict residential uses within the Waterfront District to a limited number of caretaker’s quarters; and

WHEREAS, once the limit on the number of caretaker’s units in the Waterfront District has been reached, the total number of caretaker’s units allowed within the District is limited to a number equal to a specified percentage of the total number of developed parcels in the District, no further caretaker’s units may be built, until a sufficient number of additional parcels in the District have been developed and the number of caretaker’s units allowed has consequently increased; and

WHEREAS, the limit on the number of caretaker’s units in the District was reached in 2003, and subsequent development of vacant lots within the District has resulted in new opportunities to develop caretaker’s units; and

WHEREAS, there is currently no formal process for allocating development opportunities for new caretaker’s units that become available as additional parcels are developed within the District; and

WHEREAS, this Board concludes that a formal process for providing all potential applicants desiring to build a caretaker’s unit in the W District with an equal opportunity to obtain an allocation for a caretaker’s unit is the best way to ensure that such opportunities are distributed fairly; and

WHEREAS, the San Mateo County Planning and Building Department has developed a lottery and waiting list system for this Board’s consideration and approval that would determine who can make use of available opportunities to build a caretaker’s unit; and

WHEREAS, the proposed system would be administered by the Planning and Building Department and is described in detail in the attached Board report, County File Number PLN 2008-00397; and

WHEREAS, this Board has considered the proposed lottery and waiting list system for the Princeton Waterfront District caretaker’s units and desires to have it implemented as soon as reasonably possible.

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY DETERMINED AND ORDERED that the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors authorizes the San Mateo County Planning and Building Department to implement a lottery and waiting list system consistent with the terms set forth in the Board report for County File Number PLN 2008-00397 to allocate development opportunities for caretaker’s units in the Princeton Waterfront (“W”) District.

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