Monthly Archives: January 2014

Business Owners Favor 2 Hour Parking Limits

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Parking reserved for Happy Girls and their organic pickles. Don’t recall seeing any handicap plate on that microbus:
happy girl parking

The city tried the longer parking time during the holiday season at the urging of downtown merchants who believe time limits were too short and turned away customers and visitors.

“Since then there have been further favorable comments from a variety of downtown businesspersons,” Myers said in a council report. Only one concern about the extended parking times was fielded, she said.

The police chief said the city’s Business Improvement District promised to work with downtown businesses to ensure premium spaces are not used by employees.

Business Owners Favor 2 Hour Parking Limits

Web Tool To Bring More Art Galleries To P.G.

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4 years after the search for less schlock we now have this one.

Open Counter

Kurt Overmeyer, city economic development manager, said the tool helps people scope out business opportunities and has a wealth of information about policies and programs.

OpenCounter brings “easy online experience — and cost advantages — to City Hall,” a city press release said.

Other Anti-Schlock Cyber-P.G. sites:

Mr Overmeyers’s own pacificgrove.fixdowntown.org – some kind of business community workshop schlock with documents to download that will choke a DSL connection.

The Pacific Grove Mobile app, featuring a tool to snitch on people feeding sea gulls.

Moe’s Chamber Of Commerce where every failed enterprise was once “the best thing to happen to P.G.”

Pacific Grove Business Improvement District a site that appears to be perpetually under construction.

The Wine Walk With Art (url now dead, available at Go Daddy!) where wining gallery owners discussed the business with little knowledge that it was view able by the public.

Web Tool To Bring More Art Galleries To P.G.

Del Monte Park NIMBYs Lose A Point In Pebble Beach Battle

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And Mayor Kampe suddenly discovers a letter from PB Co that he didn’t know he had. Perhaps he left it in Dan Cort’s ‘moron’ file.

The council sent a letter to the Pebble Beach Co. and county officials in November listing a number of reasons why neighbors of the project site oppose the location and asking the company to consider an alternative site. The letter asked the company to list all alternative sites considered, why they were rejected, why the company feels the proposed site is superior to other alternatives, and requested information on any studies done on alternative sites.

Earlier this week, Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Kampe said the company actually sent a reply letter, contrary to his statement on Sunday. The letter dated Dec. 20 from company vice president Mark Stilwell, which Kampe said he didn’t discover until Monday, outlined the company’s reasons for choosing the proposed site, but did not address the council’s request for any information about alternative sites..

Del Monte Park NIMBYs Lose A Point In Pebble Beach Battle

Person Dead In Stuart Elder Crash Was Drinking

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Michael Lukehart, who represents Elder, said he learned through case discovery documents that “both parties had been consuming alcohol.”

Chief Assistant District Attorney Terry Spitz said the information did not stop his office from pressing charges against Elder.

“That is a fact that we were aware of and we took into account when reviewing the case,” he said. “We were obviously aware of it — we provided the information to the defense.”

LaRone and Daly were in a 2005 Ford driven by Daly when Elder’s Cadillac sport utility vehicle crossed into the opposite lane and into the path of the Ford, the California Highway Patrol said.

Elder, 30 at the time of the crash, was arrested by CHP officers and released on $430,000 bail.

Person Dead In Stuart Elder Crash Was Drinking

Rappa’s Closed

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City is against consolidation.

The Monterey City Council on Tuesday will consider taking final action to deny the transfer of a wharf lease for Rappa’s Seafood Restaurant from Anthony Rappa to would-be buyer James Gilbert, who has three other wharf restaurants.

Rappa, who has been running the restaurant since 1980, said Thursday that he hopes the council decides otherwise.

“What they are doing is counterproductive,” said Rappa, who at age 79 wants to retire. He said Gilbert has the money to make badly needed improvements to the property, along with plans to make it a “destination location.”

The restaurant sits in a good location near the end of the wharf, with a second-level observation deck overlooking the harbor.

Rappa’s Closed