City will add agriculture to Boys and Girls Club lease

Tuesday’s Half Moon Bay City Council meeting went into super-overtime, dragging past 1am on Wednesday in order to deal with the controversy over the Boys and Girls Club’s grading of the land they lease from the city.

While the council declined to give the group permission to set up a pumpkin patch at the meeting, they directed the city staff to work with club president David Cline to come up with a lease amendment that would allow agricultural uses in the future, and to determine who is responsible for cleaning up the industrial debris on the site.  The council determined that the lease was clearly designed for a building and not for agriculture.

City hall staff is continuing to investigate whether changing the use of the land to agriculture would require a coastal development permit.