Multiple appeals filed against proposed Half Moon Bay senior farmworker housing project

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The housing project would be up to a five-story, 40-unit complex on 555 Kelly Avenue in the city's downtown business district. It would also include a resource center for farmworkers and 18 parking spots on the first floor.

Gloria RodríguezA hearing was scheduled Wednesday to hear three appeals filed against proposed senior farmworker housing in Half Moon Bay.A hearing was scheduled Wednesday to hear three appeals filed against proposed senior farmworker housing in Half Moon Bay.

The three appeals against the project mostly raise concerns about traffic and pedestrian congestion in the area and say those utilizing the housing or resource center would not have enough parking there, so they'd need to use community center parking and street parking. "I think that's fear," said Lilli Rey, ALAS Board of Directors president. "There's a whole group of people who say I'm totally for affordable housing, just not here. Well then, you're not for affordable housing because nothing is ever perfect and this is an opportunity to provide a community of people long underserved with a place for them to age in a place after they've spent 30, some 40 years in the farms putting food on our tables.

 

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