Monthly Archives: June 2016

Aquarium Grows More Tentacles

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More 70s tourist destinations to demolish.
Cannery Row Square

the new four-story $30 million building will include five learning spaces/labs, a multipurpose room, office space for 35 staff members and a video lab. It will also feature an event center located on the top floor and have many features that qualify as “environmentally responsible,” such as solar panels on the roof. Its targeted opening date is 2018

As Cole explained, the bridge between the two buildings will actually be demolished, opening up the view down Hoffman and the new 25,000-square-foot building will be shorter than the current structure.

Aquarium Grows More Tentacles

Laws Do Not Apply For The Elite Class

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Ever want to have a beer at Lovers Point or cook over a grill on the beach? Strictly forbidden unless you are from Carmel and have lots of money.

At Pacific Grove’s City Council meeting Wednesday, the council approved Carmel Film Festival’s request to hold its Filmmakers Beach Dinner at Lovers Point Park this year. Organizers of the event requested that fire pits be placed on the beach and that alcohol would be allowed for the event. Pacific Grove’s municipal code prohibits both.

“We approved it to go ahead but we need to review some aspects of events like that,” said Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Kampe. “We’ll need to look at city ordinances.”

The Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce also hopes to shift additional festival events in the future.

Festival organizers say they will pay for all needed city services in addition to rental fees for city parking lots and park areas and will utilize the city’s businesses for managing, catering and equipment rentals.

Laws Do Not Apply For The Elite Class

 

Teacher Ken Ottmar Said WHAT?

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High school teacher in hiding accused of kinky behavior.

School officials say he made sexually suggestive comments to students, allowed teens to drink alcohol in his house, told kids about his sexual fantasies, and favored the pretty girls in class, but the P.G. High School teacher alleged to have done those things and more maintains none of it ever happened.

The district contends Ottmar told students that he’d had sex with his wife in his class room; that it was his fantasy for his wife and her best friend to have a lesbian relationship; that he visited strip clubs while in Las Vegas; and that he and others liked watching his “wife run track because she is sexy.”

Ottmar — who began working in PGUSD in 2008 after leaving his writing job at the Monterey County Herald — told one girl she had “nice wide thighs” and would “make a
good wife one day and have lots of babies,” and told another student she was a “BBW (big butt woman),” according to the district.“Sexually suggestive and flirtatious comments are highly inappropriate and have no place in the classroom,” the reprimand notice says.

Teacher Ken Ottmar Said WHAT?

NIMBYs Nix Netting

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Ball Blocker Is Baloney, they say!

Residents in Pacific Grove are not happy about a new net planned for the golf course, saying it will block their view of the bay.

The planned net would be more than 30 feet high and 320 feet long. But nearby neighbors hope the city will at least consider putting a smaller net in.

“They claim that netting is 35 feet is a standard. That’s baloney. It’s not a standard,” Sanford Cohen said.

Cohen and Richard Stillwell live on Jewel Avenue.

“See the top of those poles? I can’t even see the mountains over there,” said Stillwell, pointing across the bay.

NIMBYs Nix Netting

Ticket Taxes, That’s the Ticket

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Admission taxes and business taxes, those will save us.

The citywide admissions tax would apply to ticket sales for all attractions, including movies, sporting and special events, tours, concerts and the aquarium. Approximately 20 percent of the aquarium is located under Pacific Grove’s jurisdiction.

The other tax in question on Wednesday will be the city’s business tax license. The current cap for a business license is $3,000 with the minimum cost set at $15.

Options proposed to the city, to be considered separately or in combination, include removing the $3,000 maximum tax cap, retaining the cap and increasing the tax rate, or removing the cap, streamlining the process by eliminating the separate current tax/process method and applying a tax rate by business type.

Ticket Taxes, That’s the Ticket

 

Truck Thief Chased By Meter Maid

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Dumb IRL GTA player turns down dead end street.

The truck was reported stolen Thursday morning from the 100 block of Sloat Street in Pacific Grove. A parking enforcement officer spotted the truck about 11:30 a.m. and tried to pull it over in the 600 block of Laine Street in Monterey, but the driver sped away, police said.

The driver turned onto Reeside Avenue, which dead ends at the Presidio, and drove into the fence and retaining wall. The driver and passenger ran from the truck.

Monterey and Pacific Grove police canvassed the area and found the driver, identified as Adrian Chronister. He was taken into custody by Monterey police.

Truck Thief Chased By Meter Maid

Pebble Beach Employee Housing Approved

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Del Monte Park residents predict meth labs, jumper cables, fornication and other acts of low class across the fence. Did anyone mention that Del Monte Park has 60% of the town’s sex offenders?

DMP

After a three-hour hearing featuring more than two dozen neighbors speaking in opposition and a range of business and social interest groups speaking in support, along with a few company employees, the commission spent a few brief moments discussing the 24-unit lower-income apartment complex project before voting 6-0 to approve it.

Commissioner Martha Diehl, who made the motion to approve, said she understood the concerns of neighbors who opposed the project but said affordable housing was such an “overwhelming priority” along with open space preservation in the forest tied to the proposal that it outweighed any drawbacks.

Pebble Beach Employee Housing Approved