I swear, it I didn’t know that that measure U is supported by the Police Officers Association I’d think that the organizers were all smoking some good ganga.
First they forgot the deadline to add arguments for the measure in the voter guide, then they put up a website with eye wrenching colors and misspellings.
(note, the spelling has since been corrected)
A proposal to turn Monterey’s Cannery Row into a one-way street has some people concerned over the negative impact on business. The topic will be discussed Tuesday night at City Hall.
Rich Deal, the City Traffic Engineer will recommend the permanent change, following the reopening of Cannery Row in May. The street has been partially closed, and on a one-way configuration for over a year, during the construction of a new hotel.
The Cannery Row Company, which owns 70% of the property, is challenging the city, and requesting the street return to the two-way configuration in May.
City Manager Fred Meurer recommended setting the matter aside after he learned that Clement Chen, developer of the 208-room Intercontinental The Clement Monterey hotel in the 700 block of Cannery Row, had indicated he may change his mind about supporting the change in traffic flow. Part of Cannery Row has been one-way during construction of the hotel.
In a letter to city traffic engineer Richard Deal, Chen earlier wrote that he was concerned about double-parked delivery trucks in the 700 block of the Row, which he said created gridlock when the two-way street was open and that he felt a one-way routing would solve that problem.
Make deliveries between 7 and 10 AM. Or provide loading zones. No reason to screw up traffic with one-way streets.
(KTVU 2 News)
SAN FRANCISCO — A woman is dead following a freak accident in which a fallen branch from a Redwood tree struck her near Stern Grove in San Francisco Monday.
The woman, who was possibly in her 50s, was letting her dog into her Subaru Outback in a parking lot off Sloat Boulevard at Sigmund Stern Grove when the branch fell and struck her and the car around 11:30 a.m.
It all started way back in yesteryear when the Puritans put their mark on our Piney Paradise. I’m not sure what prompted the City Council to change history, but I suspect it was influenced by the Episcopalians and the Catholics. Somehow communion just wasn’t the same with grape juice.
My mother explained to me that wine in the Bible was not the same as wine today, and even if it was, Jesus said a little wine was good for the stomach.
Now, with a little experience, I realize that Mom was passing on what she had learned from her Congregational heritage and didn’t really know what she was talking about. In later years, she preferred a good Manhattan and there was no mention of that in the Bible. I might add that after 1969, there was very little stomach trouble in Pacific Grove.
Great story, I can vouch very true.
It was part of what kept the town small, and the wino tourists away. I wonder how many votes a council/mayor candidate would get running on a prohibition platform?
While checking the mail, I took a stroll up and down The Street. The weather was real warm this year. Not much pizazz, the usual high cost carnival goods and a few distinct items.
Cheap Eats
Expensive Shirt
Expensive Hats
Expensive Slippers
Expensive Kid Dresses
Tighty Tiedyes
Junk Metal made into art trinkets (several booths were selling these)
Junk Metal that still looks like junk metal. And sharpie on cardboard box art.
Like Posters, only more expensive.
Like Skateboards, only uhh nailed to the walls
Too many dogs
Too many people to have obstructing signs in the walkway
For those that have searched the far reaches of the earth for a melted beer bottle, and only from Key West (Florida, I presume)
Where’s the Zantac? (oh, all the pharmacies downtown are gone)
For the hippies that don’t use much, Soap By The Slice
Recycle Exhibit in tossing distance from Hollys’ trash overflowing.
Climb The Giant Terd/Turd (getting a lot of fluff on the spelling – I say that terd is less offensive – kind of humorous to misspell. I deliberately chose the misspelling even after Firefox warned me, just to not become another floater in the Google searches for scatology).
I’m outta here
Another nice story. Brought back memories when he mentioned donkey baseball played in P.G.
Somewhere along the line I suppose the city passed a law against them, and while not every home had a hen house, most people had fresh eggs. There was a nice sort of cluck cluck from back yards, and a strident cock a doodle doo from a rooster or two.
And speaking of pigeons, you will remember the early days of television when most of the houses in town had spindly aluminum antennas wired to the chimneys. Well, in flew a wave of wild pigeons, big and black, and they roosted on those antennas just long enough to bend or break them, and away they went. All over town, antennas either gone or pointing down!
Ocean View Cablevision was releasing hundreds of pigeons from it’s office/headend on Forest Hill.
Monterey police said Kyle Signorella, 34, had $900 worth of counterfeit $10 and $20 bills in his car when he was pulled over in Pacific Grove.
The quality of the bills was very poor, printed on a home inkjet printer, police said.
This is the Green Spot, a collaboration between Applied Solar and two local environmental groups. Only a few months old, the quirky little property is evolving into a vortex for all things local and green.
Three groups will unveil the Green Spot at the Good Old Days celebration. Fifteen booths, displays and demos will show locals how to shrink their eco-footprints by planting trees, building compost bins, installing solar-energy systems, setting up cisterns, cleaning green, curbing trash and auditing home energy use.
Can I get a tax cut for this? How much more would Jose the gardener charge to compost my lawn trimmings? Is cabbage resistant to deer and raccoon poo? Do you really think the weekender homeowners are really going to buy this? Judging by the mountains of trash the businesses create, it shows that they wont. Who’s left to join the compost club, the dozen or so frequent attendees to the city council meetings?
And Sam “the sham’ Farr has showed some rare gonads and came out against the spraying. Weird, I’ve always thought Farr was in the AgBiz’s back pocket.
Doctors and scientists from the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the California Department of Public Health and the state Department of Pesticide Regulation examined the illness complaints that followed aerial spraying of a pheromone product in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties last year and described their findings in today’s report.
As the LBAM program continues, the state will monitor the safety of any future spraying.
No Link Between Light Brown Apple Moth Spraying and Reported Illnesses
If the gas prices keeping tourists away don’t kill downtown this will. If I need to leave the car down or up the hill to go to the bank or hardware store, forget it. I’ll just keep driving all the way to Sand City.
Cort floated an idea that came out of the city’s Economic Advisory Committee. Pacific Grove could close several blocks of Lighthouse Avenue to cars, he said, creating the first “pedestrianized” downtown on the Peninsula.
Murmurs grew until the room was buzzing like a poked beehive. The noise drowned out the mayor’s subsequent comments on water storage and solar roofs.
But City Councilman Alan Cohen, who also sits on the committee and owns Lighthouse Business Center, is skeptical. He worries that commercial rents on Lighthouse – which are already at a premium – could be affected. And he doesn’t like the notion of customers walking several blocks to go shopping, then schlepping their packages back to their cars. “It would close off traffic on a street that brings a lot of people to town,” he says.
Rough estimate of the planned no car zones:
Mayor Cort Wants To Transform Lighthouse Avenue Into A No Car Zone