Title
Day-Use Mooring Sub-Permit Trial
Recommendation
The Harbor Department is responsible for managing the City’s on- and off-shore mooring fields. Identifying opportunities to increase the utility of these fields, in order to better serve the needs of the local boating community, is a central goal of the department.
Some local boaters have expressed interest in the short-term day-use of vacant off-moorings, allowing them to enjoy secure and stationary/non-operational leisure time aboard their vessels while in the Harbor. To accommodate such requests and to better
evaluate merits of such an offering, the Harbormaster is proposing to implement a six-month trial program, allowing for short-term day-use rental of off-shore moorings, for up to six hours.
Recommendation:
1) Find this action exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3, because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly; and
2) Approve staff recommendation to implement a day-use mooring program, on a trial basis, through February 28, 2021, as well as requesting staff to report back to the Harbor Commission on the results of this trial program, determining whether or not such a program should considered as a standing harbor-related offering, beyond the six month trial period.