Spending state funds for Stone Pine Cove approved in Half Moon Bay | Local News

Half Moon Bay and the county are continuing to work together on the project, which spans 5 acres of land at 880 Stone Pine Road and was designated for farmworkers after a January 2023 mass shooting took the lives of seven and exposed derelict living conditions.

The allocation also follows a May 7 Board of Supervisors decision to purchase 47 manufactured homes for the project.

The state-allocated funding will go to the purchase of 30 priority water connections from the Coastside County Water District, costing $480,900 in total. Another $10,165 will go to plan check fees to the agency, according to a staff report.

The remaining funding will go to still-unspecified construction costs and is expected to be expended by the second quarter of fiscal year 2024-25.

“Part of what getting the authority to use this funding does, allows us to deal with some of these bigger issues that come up quickly and be resolved fairly quickly,” City Manager Matthew Chidester said. “It just makes the project more nimble going forward.”

The project will house 19 families displaced by the shooting, and Supervisor Ray Mueller reminded the board last month that those families are depending on local municipalities to help them find a “safe and healthy place to live,” Bay City News reported previously.