Commission Approves Emergency Coastal Trail Repair as Bluff Crumbles Into Ocean

Half Moon Bay's Planning Commission tackled an urgent safety crisis on the California Coastal Trail, where a section has literally fallen into the Pacific, before adopting a $90 million capital improvement program and learning about a 74-unit housing project that will bypass public hearings entirely.

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• Downtown mural unanimously approved for 507 Purissima Street

The longest item of the night centered on a 50-foot section of the California Coastal Trail south of Marauder Road that has collapsed into the ocean, leaving a 25-foot drop-off where pedestrians and cyclists once passed.