So Long My Old Town

While the remaining businesses in the structure vacated it in late 2022, about a year ago, a repurpose of the rundown building has long been sought. In its place will be the Kimpton Hotel by IHG Hotels & Resorts, which, according to plans submitted to the city, will have a 3,615-squarefoot restaurant, 849-square-foot spa, 798-square-foot gymand a 12,677-square-foot parking area.

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So Long My Old Town

Public Comment On Zoom Prohibited

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Zoom Bombing

“Beginning at council’s Nov. 1 meeting, the public may comment during the meeting in person or prior to the meeting via email,” Peake told The Pine Cone Thursday. “No public comments will be received by Zoom.”
The move will please some residents and council members because it will likely stop racist and sexually explicit content that has plagued several local city councils, not only Pacific Grove’s.

Public Comment On Zoom Prohibited

City Council Zoom Meeting Allows Racist Comments

Hateful Internet trolls. We are not ready to allow public comment via conference calls until technology to make speakers accountable is put in place.

Zoom Bombing

Referring to a comments about putting affordable housing on city-owned property, one man calling himself Guy Gator said low-income housing is a “very poor decision to make.” “When we put these public housings in our communities, you’re pretty much like lowering the property value of everybody else’s homes,” the man said. “Because low-income housing brings low-income trash like illegal beaners from Mexico and ni**ers and people we just don’t want here in Pacific Grove.

City Council Zoom Meeting Allows Racist Comments

P.G. Paying $85.26 Per Hour To Temp

Community Development department oversees planning, building, and housing divisions along with code compliance. Nobody in those divisions are worthy of stepping up while the hiring process is ongoing.

“The city is in need of a community development director on a temporary basis for a limited duration to oversee and manage the community development department,” according to a report to the council by human resources manager Leticia Livian.

On Wednesday, the P.G. City Council OK’d an arrangement that would allow Lew Bauman to temporarily serve as the city’s community development director.

P.G. Paying $85.26 Per Hour To Temp

New P.G. School Superintendent Another Come Here

No one ever moves up in the local ranks.

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Linda Adamson comes from a much larger district than P.G.’s. Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified has 34 schools and an enrollment of about 24,000. Pacific Grove Unified has two elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, one continuation high school and an adult education school. Its enrollment, as of August, is about I ,800.

Adamson obtained her bachelor’s degree in education from Johannesburg College of Education, in South Africa, and a master’s and doctorate degrees in school administration from California State University Fullerton.

New P.G. School Superintendent Another Come Here

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RHNA Goals Are Out Of Reach

RHNA – Newsome’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation. Only one thing to do, force residents that have extra unused bedrooms to rent them out to the low-income population. It’s The Substainable Thing To Do.

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The Housing Element addresses a range of housing issues such as affordability, housing types, density, and location, and establishes goals, policies and programs to address existing and projected housing needs.

Pacific Grove’s RHNA number sits at 1,125 units expected to be added by 2031, a huge challenge for a built-out city with limited space for new housing and some of the most expensive housing along the Monterey Peninsula.

As a result, Pacific Grove will be hard-pressed to provide housing at the low-income level. The state dramatically increased RHNA numbers on the city. The last RHNA requirements in the period of 2015 through 2023 were set at 115 units. From there to the current 1,125 units is an increase of 878%, with little or no explanation about why such a pronounced jump.

RHNA Goals Are Out Of Reach