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Crescent City’s only seafood market comes to terms with the Harbor
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balked at the lease proposal. Center to the discussion was the business’s mutually-agreed, visibly poor location. An impasse and ultimate discontinuance of the seafood market loomed on the horizon. At Tuesday’s Harbor meeting, Commissioners approved a new short-term two year lease, with an increase in base rent and no override on sales during the
BY ROGER GITLIN The Triplicate
Several weeks back, The Triplicate reported a story that Crescent Seafood and the Crescent City Harbor were unable to come to terms following the expiration of Crescent Seafood’s lease on obsure 170 Marine Way. Owner Kurt Hochberg was looking at a new lease agreement with a six percent override on all restaurant and fish market sales. Hochburg
Please see SEAFOOD, Page 4
The State Coastal Conservancy Supports Two Important Del Norte Projects The Conservancy awarded a grant of up to $1,500,000 to the Smith River Alliance to implement the Point Saint George Coastal Trail Implementation Project, consisting of cultural resources protection and construction of 1.25 miles of the California Coastal Trail, new restrooms, interpretive signage, and other improvements to the main trailhead parking area at Point Saint George in Del Norte County. The project will extend the California Coastal Trail, protect sensitive resources, improve public safety, and provide amenities at a natural area that is an important open space destination for tourists and the local community. The project is essential to protect the resources of the site and to improve public access to the 339-acre Point Saint George property that was purchased in part with Conservancy funds in 2002. “The project will provide multiple benefits,” said Peter Jarausch, Conservancy Project Manager. “It will fill a gap in the coastal trail, providing a continuous reach of coastal trail from Pebble Beach Drive, two miles to the south, to the mouth of the Smith River, approximately 11 miles to the north.” “This project is located in Tolowa Dee-ni’ Ancestral Lands known as Taa-ghii~‘a~. We look forward to continuing the collaborative work with our partners, while providing Indigenous input to protect cultural landscapes, Please see PROJECTS, Page 4
Sheriff looking at vacant CFPD site for relocation of Search and Rescue
BY ROGER GITLIN Country Media, Inc.
Will the long-vacant Crescent Fire Protection District building and land be the future home of Del Norte Search and Rescue? Sheriff Garrett Scott must relocate the soonto-be leveled old mental health building on Williams Drive, currently the home of Del Norte Search and Rescue. The Department of Health and Human Services in partnership with Mission Possible will be razing the building, building and opening Del
Norte’s first official emergency homeless center thanks to a $10.823 million grant from the State. The Board of Supervisors has approved The Sheriff the emergency homeless center and pallet housing units on Williams Dr. The Sheriff operates and oversees Search and Rescue and is
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tasked with finding a new home for the invaluable Search and Rescue team. One by one, relocation options are dwindling. • The Hamilton Mill site up Crescent Hill is no longer an option. • A small structure adjacent to the jail is currently occupied and being
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Protection District (CFPD) building and large lot located at 550 East Cooper Avenue (APN 118-370015) is available. At the recent CFPD February meeting, commissioners discussed and unanimously voted to sell or lease its long-vacant structure. The site might
be the right one for either a sale or lease to Search and Rescue. The lot size is .38 of acre, just under 17, 000 sq.ft. a two stall garage as part of a 1700 sq. ft structure is also available. The CFPD meets Tuesday, March 11 at 5:30 at 255 E. Washington Blvd.
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utilized. • The Sheriff could purchase a modular building to be placed across from the DNSD. The lot is owned by the County. Cost for the modular building is unknown. The most logical and flexible option might be the vacant Crescent Fire
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