Monthly Archives: November 2006

Business Group Requests Unlimited Parking

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Minutes of the Traffic Commission – November 14, 2006

One of the concerns was that employees would take advantage of the no enforcement policy and park their vehicles in front of the establishments where they are employed.
Commission encourages the BID group to . . come back to us next July or August with a plan to implement the extended parking for shoppers and indicate they are going to control employee parking.

Nothing new here – there appears to be little or no enforcement of the 2 hour limits already. Numerous commercial vehicles and personal cars from store owners and workers park all day with no need to move.

Hazaras parks it’s van around Lighthouse and Forest all day.

Parking Hazara-20min

Victorian Corner workers take up so many parking places and the loading zone all day . . .

Parking Victorian Corner Cars

That delivery trucks cannot even use the “loading zone” set aside for the purpose and spill over to red zones and crosswalks

Crosswalk Awareness Month Vc2
Business Group Requests Unlimited Parking

Business Slow? Blame The Parked Cars

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From the Minutes of the Traffic Commission – November 14, 2006

A group of students from Monterey Peninsula College are developing a marketing plan for four (4) businesses on the west side of Grand Avenue between Lighthouse Ave. and Central Ave. They have observed large vehicles parking all day long in front of these establishments which blocks sight distance to the businesses. Passing vehicles on Grand Avenue have difficulty seeing the stores because of parked vehicles.

Large vehicles parked all day? So the two hour limit is not enforced there either.
So one idea is to extend your store signage to the street, just like Ariana Cafe once did.Parking Art Works

Or get the city to make the spaces in front of your business ‘loading zones’. Works for Victorian Corner.
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Or join the sandwich board club.

Sidewalk Sign Bijouterie

Is it the parked cars? No I think these kinds of shops belong in Carmel anyway. Business success means selling an item or service that people want. Do people come to PG for the Carmel experience?

Business Slow? Blame The Parked Cars

Scotch Bakery Trades Pies For The Pie-Eyed

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Sign posted on window of Scotch Bakery announces an application for a liquor license. It appears that at least one of the Favaloros have had enough of that “spending time with the family” and are going back into the evening restaurant business.

Sad that another PG institution goes by the wayside. Scotch Bakery was mentioned in John Steinbeck’s book Cannery Row and was an alternative to DeSmets back in the days when downtown PG was more for residents than visitors. Some say since SB was sold it has not been as good as it was anyway. Well so much for historical stores, make way for more alcohol and pasta. For real good bakery stuff, check Pavel’s across from Grove Market. There’s nothing on Lighthouse Avenue worth checking.

Scotch Bakery

Favaloros

Favaloros had a restaurant that closed soon after the owner, Anthony Favaloro was arrested for allegedly choking his mother-in-law there one night. I notice that his name is not on the liquor license or fictitious name statement for this restaurant.

Favaloros Bistro Liquor Sign

Favaloros Liquor

Favaloros Business Name

Scotch Bakery Trades Pies For The Pie-Eyed

Susan Goldbeck Was Never Serious About That $1000 Offer

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Susan Goldbeck is quoted in the Carmel Pine Cone as saying she would pay $1,000 to any Pacific Grove resident who could prove she ever raised her voice or had been rude during a City Council meeting.

“It was a joke. The idea people would call in and ask for a reward is ridiculous. Soon I will be a private citizen, let my people go,” Goldbeck said.

That is so stupid, first to say it and second to deny that it was a promise. So glad to have her gone.
Goldbeck 1 grand
Goldbeck Was Not Really Serious About That $1000

Ex-Mayor Morrie Fisher Sues For Free Golf

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Old golfers

Morrie Fisher has sued the city he once led, claiming the city unfairly took away his lifetime privilege to play golf for free on the city’s links.

Fisher says he was promised unlimited play on the city’s municipal course when he first left the council in 1991, according to the lawsuit filed in Monterey Superior Court last week.

Even if he was a retired, full-time employee, said city attorney David Laredo, the city’s policy doesn’t grant lifetime free golf privileges, nor does it give a city manager the authority to allow unlimited golf play. Green fees at the Pacific Grove Golf Links are now as much as $40, depending on the day.

“I don’t believe there is any basis in fact or in law for the benefit that he claims,” Laredo said

Or as Snick says (in a Clint Eastwood impersonation): “The only way for an ex-mayor get free golf is to buy the golf course!”

Ex-Mayor Morrie Fisher Sues For Free Golf

You Won’t Have Goldbeck To Kick Around Anymore

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Former Pacific Grove councilwoman and two-time mayoral candidate Susan Goldbeck said she won’t run again for public office because she’s tired of dirty politics.

The 58-year-old Goldbeck, who served on the council for four years and just lost a bid for mayor to Dan Cort, said she’s done.

“I will give anyone in this town a $1,000 if they can show I have ever raised my voice or been rude to anybody”, Goldbeck said.

Shades of Richard Nixon’s resignation in his failed bid for the California Governorship in 1962.

You Won’t Have Goldbeck To Kick Around Anymore

Cynthia Hurley Gets A Year In Jail, Loses Properties

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Before sentencing, Cynthia Hurley, clad in striped jail garb, was uncuffed so she could sign quit claim deeds for her 30-percent ownership of four Pacific Grove properties to pay a chunk of the $975,000 restitution.

Hurley was convicted of stealing the valuables from 98-year-old Lillian King, who had taken in Hurley and allowed her to live on her five-acre Sunset Drive property. At Hurley’s encouragement, King purchased properties on Divisadero and Granite streets and Piedmont and Forest avenues and signed over partial interest to Hurley.

Prosecutor Lisa Poll said Hurley’s actions were fueled by her addiction to methamphetamine and that she had filled King’s Sunset Avenue property with drug addicts.

Cynthia Hurley Gets A Year In Jail, Loses Properties

Cort Stays On As Mayor – Goldbeck, Schenk Ousted

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Incumbent Dan Cort will continue as the city’s mayor after receiving after defeating City Councilwoman Susan Goldbeck and Pacific Grove Hometown Bulletin Publisher Lee Yarborough with nearly 60 percent of the vote.

Was not even a close race for mayor.
DAN CORT 2,627 59.88%
SUSAN GOLDBECK 918 20.93%
LEE YARBOROUGH 842 19.19%

Newly elected council members are Alan Cohen and Vicki Stillwell. Lisa Bennett and Dan Davis return.

Gone are Ron Schenk and Susan Goldbeck.

Cort Stays On As Mayor – Goldbeck and Schenk ousted.