Public Meeting Regarding Proposed Amazon Distribution Facility This Wednesday
Amazon logo superimposed on an artist’s perspective of the Amazon site.
This is a press release from the County of Humboldt:
On Oct. 21, 2025, the Humboldt County Planning & Building Department received an application for a coastal development permit to construct a 40,290 square-foot commercial warehouse and several parking lots. The proposed project would operate as an Amazon Distribution Facility that spans across six parcels located within the Airport Business Park in McKinleyville.
An informational community meeting to discuss the permit application and the county’s permit review process will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29. This in person meeting will take place at Azalea Hall, located next to Pierson Park at 1620 Pickett Rd. in McKinleyville.
All interested community members are encouraged to attend to ask questions and share concerns about this proposed project. No final decisions regarding this project will be made at this meeting. Additional opportunities for public comment will be provided before a final decision is reached.
Community members unable to attend the meeting in person may access the meeting on Zoom.
For more information about the public meeting, please call 707-268-3741.
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BOYCOTT AMAZON…. But not this meeting! GO!!
Amazon is a predatory, freeloader corporation!
Here are some reasons to OPPOSE AMAZON and this project!
https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/retailers/ten-reasons-avoid-amazon
Walmart? Temu? Etsy? Best Buy? Costco? Target? Walgreen’s? and that’s the short list…
They are not all exactly the same. Some have good values and support workers better. Some actually pay (some) taxes. (But yes. Don’t buy from Temu either!!).
Not proud to say, but I buy from Amazon. Basically because I live in the middle of nowhere and it’s convenient. I am however extremely concerned with the uncovering of how they have fixed prices and bully small retailers to help create their Monopoly
Many of us live in ‘the middle of nowhere’ and yet we are able to order from independent businesses, and have things delivered by USPS, UPS, FedEx, etc. Your consciousness is there. Now, just place your values over your addiction to ‘immediate and easy convenience’.
They didn’t exactly “fix prices” as in the usual meaning of conspiring to maintain higher prices. They used their market place to ensure that their sellers did not sell elsewhere at a lower price. The sellers still chose their prices.
There are local service providers who do collude to make sure their competitors don’t undercut them but that is not what I thought Amazon does. My gripe with Amazon is their lack of responsibility and their deliberately difficult website that makes any problem difficult to resolve.
I agree about the often circular goes-nowhere problem resolution website “features”.
However the Chat or a Call usually resolves any problem simply and quickly. In my experience…
You are welcome to pay more from the local shops and rest assured that they bought their goods and Amazon and sold to u for higher price! 😂
But hey, at least you are supporting local!
Simple capitalism!
There is a lot of vacant land in that area and building an Amazon Distribution Facility I think it is a good idea. But my biggest concern is are they going to bring in workers from out of the area to build it or hire our local contractors who are quite capable of building the facility. Then I also wonder if they will hire our local people to staff the center or again bring in people who are used to running an Amazon center. There will be a lot more questions that need to be answered in that short period of time. I encourage anyone interested to please attend if you can or what it on Zoom.
Apparently the “County” does not know what is an “Amazon Distribution Facility”. What’s interesting is neither does the major internet search engine DuckDuckGo which returns
Amazon “itself” doesn’t know either(!). The word “Distribution” is not on the Amazon “Our Facilities” webpage.
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/facilities
What, exactly, will be discussed?
Amazon calls these “Fulfillment Centers”.
Sortable or Nonsortable? (both have inventory)
Amazon is THROWING HUMBOLDT A LIFE PRESERVER! You guys think jobs are bad for the county or something? You guys have no income in humboldt anymore and you act like it’s a good thing?
I think it is important to know what exactly is being proposed to make an informed decision yea or nay, don’t you?
Knowing more before the meeting will help with meeting preparation, yes? I don’t want to waste my time or theirs on wrong assumptions.
“Amazon is THROWING [AT] HUMBOLDT A LIFE PRESERVER!”
Correct.
Preserving everything beneficial to Amazon:
All good news for Amazon stockholders.
All bad news for residents of Humboldt County.
This is the best, most specific, detailed comment here! Thank you!!
No it’s not. It’s repeating tropes. They may be true but they are not confined to Amazon. There are a number greedy local businesses exploiting workers, polluting, pushing down wages, avoiding taxes, threatrn workers over unionizing, etc too. Who do you think hires illegal workers and pays them under the table? Or being unreliable about paying on time at all? Diddles employees on breaks and hours? Or not observing FLSA or OCHA standards? There are local businesses that get caught, close down then reopen with a slightly different name and have done so a dozen times. You just remain unaware.
Amazon is just bigger, has a lot of eyes on it and an aggressive but successful business expansion plan. They can chose where to incorporate to avoid paying taxes. People hate it.
There are of course great local businesses. But it’s hard for them to compete with dishonest ones. People complain about what they charge. Or that they don’t carry everything they want. Or even it’s too hard to park. People complain a lot.
It’s a tough world to make a go of it in business in Humboldt Co.
I suspect a whole lot of people are unaware of the ways that county government makes it harder for them. Bet you never heard of Unsecured Property Tax- but the county has had people looking at advertising to find property to tax. I first heard about it when someone I knew put an advertisement in a local paper for a horse he wanted to stand at stud. The county assessors office read the ad and sent him a tax bill for the horse.
https://humboldtgov.org/2088/Property-Tax-Information
A ‘life preserver’ with proverbial razor blades all around it!!!
No wonder the chocolate factory pulled out before they started years ago. Reading these comments, a company/corporation would never want to put down roots on the north coast. Easier to go where they’re wanted/appreciated.
Late stage American capitalism continues to be increasingly despised by much of the population from sea to shining sea.
Regardless, products have to be made, packaged, distributed. Why’s not some of it around here ? If you wonder why young people move out of the area, maybe they don’t want to work at fast food, or retail, or lay around.
How dare they think we will work jobs!! We are Slacker Nation and we will continue to fight against having jobs!! It’s an outrage I tell ya…now where did I put my EBT card?
You need to adjust the door knocker through your nose. And those tats on your face and neck can get you a demanding career digging out septic tanks.
I paid big bucks to have my septic tank pumped. And I respect the people willing to do the work.
Everybody wants sausage but nobody wants to see how it’s made.
That is a vast generalization. Many companies would be welcome here! I believe the people of Humboldt mainly want businesses with good, people/community-minded values!
Let us know when you find one.
I believe the people of Humboldt want what they can afford. And California make it very expense to afford a lot of things. It loves it’s costly regulations. At least it loves regulation of those who can’t escape it. It is singularly unwilling to regulate those who it costs the government to catch and ensure they adhere to regulations.
Given the rush hour traffic volume, and the traffic volume throughout the day and night, there must be many jobs here in Humboldt County.
Let me predict the turnout….Majority of people arguing against allowing it. They are there because they are either retired or they are slackers with lots of extra time to do “progressive” causes. Minority will be hard-working taxpayers struggling to stay afloat. Because they don’t have extra time to spend on “causes”. They are very busy and would prefer to spend any time at all with their families or recreating- they have to pay taxes and support the slackers ya know!
Let’s build it, create jobs, faster Amazon packages for our local businesses and restaurants! If you don’t like Amazon, then don’t order from Amazon.
Where’s the story on the contentious meeting?