McKinleyville Amazon project sparks pollution concerns, county review continues
More than 100 people packed Azalea Hall as McKinleyville residents raised fears about truck traffic, emissions and noise from a proposed 40,290-square-foot Amazon site.
More than 100 people filled Azalea Hall in McKinleyville to air concerns about a proposed Amazon distribution facility at 3110 Boeing Avenue, turning a county permit review into a neighborhood fight over traffic, pollution and noise.
Humboldt County identifies the proposal as Project McKinley, PLN-2025-19394. County records list CDP Development, Inc. as the applicant and Amazon.com Services, LLC as the project proponent for a 40,290-square-foot last-mile delivery station or distribution facility spread across six parcels in the McKinleyville Airport Business Park.
The Humboldt County Planning & Building Department received the coastal development permit application on Oct. 21, 2025, and later said it was preparing an Environmental Impact Report and holding a public scoping meeting. The county scheduled a public meeting for April 29, 2026, and updated its press release on April 24 to add Zoom information for people who could not attend in person.
At the Azalea Hall meeting, residents focused on the day-to-day effects of a large logistics site in North County. Concerns centered on delivery-truck traffic, vehicle emissions, construction dust, lighting and noise, along with whether a facility built for constant parcel movement fits a small-town setting like McKinleyville.
The project has also become a test of what Amazon’s expansion would mean in Humboldt County. Supporters see a business operation that could bring jobs and commercial activity, while opponents are pressing the county to weigh those gains against the localized environmental burden on nearby streets and neighborhoods.
Early public meetings around the proposal were described as rowdy and contentious, and one later online meeting was notably calmer. Even so, the April 29 turnout at Azalea Hall showed how quickly a project tied to a national company can become a local issue when residents think about the air they breathe, the traffic they drive through and the scale of development changing the McKinleyville Airport Business Park.
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