Santa Cruz Local

On Tuesday the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors took a step toward redeveloping the Cemex cement plant in Davenport. The privately owned plant has been closed since 2010 and it sits on 172 acres on the rugged North Coast of Santa Cruz County. There have been ideas thrown about converting the land into something that resembles the Costanoa Lodge near Ano Nuevo. Or perhaps a manufacturing plant for Santa Cruz air-taxi startup Joby Aviation. But Davenport is a town of about 400 people -- and many people there are worried that redevelopment could ruin the natural environment that makes the area so great.