Monterey Getting $8,000,000 For A Short Section Of Recreation Trail Improvements

Eight Million Dollars for “to go from Fisherman’s Wharf to the Coast Guard station”. The money is coming from a grant (taxes) called the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 that was sold to the tax payers as an investment to fix our roads, freeways and bridges in communities across California. As usual, Governor Moonbeam lies about where our tax dollars are spent.

At least put some lights up and maybe a few 911 phones to cut down on the rapes, robberies and assaults that happens on that dangerous trail.
Rec Trail Graff

“Solutions for congested corridors are usually for Los Angeles or San Francisco so one of the things that we try to do with this grant is highlight the importance of offering an environmentally friendly and alternate form of transportation,” said Andrea Renny. She said that by creating a smoother running trail, drivers could be swayed to become bikers, therefore the improved Rec Trail could also serve to alleviate congestion on the road. And while some have advocated for the need to separate the bicyclists and pedestrians in that stretch of the trail, Renny said that the Parks and Recreation Master Plan calls for widening the trail first before other alternatives can be considered.

Monterey Getting $8,000,000 For A Short Section Of Recreation Trail Improvements

Sea Lion Population Triples

More orcas and sharks will quickly follow. Thanks Thom Ache-man.

Seal Posse Red Sign

But all the sea lions have caused problems.

They have broken docks and sunk boats at marinas. They have vexed salmon fishermen, following their boats and eating valuable fish off their lines.

“With some fishing days seeing as few as five to 10 fish, a commercial fisherman can still make money with 10 fish if they are $10 per pound, but if you’re losing them to sea lions that can have a major effect,” said John McManus, executive director of the Golden Gate Salmon Association in San Francisco.

Sea Lion Population Triples

Headline Of The Month

No happy ending to this massage parlor.
Monterey rubs out suspect massage parlor

The Massage Envy in Monterey closed this week with no explanation.

The permanent closure comes just weeks after the national chain faced allegations of sexual assault at location across the nation.

In November a Buzzfeed report uncovered claims from 180 people had been filed against the company alleging sexual assault in its massage rooms. In November when the news broke there had been no reports of employee misconduct at the Monterey location.

Headline Of The Month

Park In Parker’s Park?

Not many van dwellers willing to take up offer. Why? Because there are rules? Because it’s easier to park on city streets?

$150,000 spent. Six people served. Tax and spend.

According to a report to the county Health and Human Services committee, a total of six participants have signed up so far for the program, including its access to case management services aimed at providing links to jobs and housing. But none had actually parked at the site as of last week

Park In Parker’s Park?

Someone Has A Twisted Sense Of Humor

Happy New Year!

Zoominfo.com, some data mining and selling company has an entry showing ex city manager Tom Fruitcheese as the City Manager at this website.
Zoominfo Thomas Frutchey Manager LHA

More laughs, an estimated value in the millions
Zoominfo LHA Revenue

And Mr. Fruitcheese has some interesting co-workers, like the teacher caught making meth
Zoominfo LHA Employees

For the record, the revenue of LighthouseAvenue.com is about negative $52 per year.

Someone Has A Twisted Sense Of Humor

Burglar Caught After Citizen Witnesses Break In

Don’t mess with South of Sinex.

Salinas resident Marcus Swingle, 29, was climbing out of the window of the Forest Hill Ace Hardware located at 1136 Forest Ave. in the Fairway Shopping Center at around 4 a.m. The officers were there to greet him.

Officers credited an observant citizen who had noticed someone who appeared to be breaking into the store. The citizen subsequently notified the police, providing them with a run-down of what the suspect was doing.

Burglar Caught After Citizen Witnesses Break In

Cannery Row Business Sued Over ADA

Cannery Row Brewing

In a suit filed Dec. 28, 2017, Timothy Cleveland alleges that when he visited the Cannery Row Brewing Company on Dec. 30, 2015, and tried to use the downstairs restrooms, he was told the elevator was out of service. “He was informed the nearest accessible restrooms were in a parking structure that would have required him to navigate outside the restaurant and encounter steep slopes,”

Cannery Row Business Sued Over ADA

He’s Got A Ticket To Ride

To leave the the city he’s supposed to manage every weekend. Plus expenses.

Flying Ben Harvey

city manager Ben Harvey’s revised employment agreement includes a $4,000 per month reimbursement plan to fly to Southern California on the weekends to see his children and a $500 per month car allowance, according to the contract approved by the city council in late.

He’s Got A Ticket To Ride

Letters From The Editor – Let Store Owners Take Up Parking Spaces

Newcomer to P.G. thinks shoppers will park far from town to spend money, therefore LET store merchants take up all the 2 hour spaces all day.

I have lived in Pacific Grove for 18 years. In that period of time I have observed our parking meter police ticketing vehicles belonging to our local PG merchants and their employees. These people must interrupt whatever they are doing every two or three hours to move their cars from one spot to another. This is usually a few feet from where they were. How foolish is this?
Mark C. Klein, Pacific Grove

Mark C. Klein needs TWO parking spaces for his Cadillac.
Mark C Klein Cadillac
Mark C. Klein of Pacific Grove stands next to his 1975 Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Klein bought the car from an estate in Illinois. It had 3,900 original miles on it.

Smarter resident sets it straight.

The last time I worked in any city including Pacific Grove I was told that downtown parking was for customers and employees had to park elsewhere and walk to work. In Pacific Grove you can park on off streets and Pine Avenue with no time restrictions. Mr. Klein’s way of thinking is let’s make customers drive around looking for parking while businesses stay empty — no wonder Pacific Grove is losing money.
Gary L. Page, Monterey

Letters From The Editor – Let Store Owners Take Up Parking Spaces
Letters From The Editor – Mark C Klein Is Wrong

Run The Short Term Rentals Out Of Town

And take the uncaring elected officials with them.

Tar And Feather

A group of Pacific Grove residents have introduced a proposed initiative measure that would prohibit short-term rentals in the city’s residential zones.

They included the intent to prohibit short-term rentals in most residential neighborhoods, city’s efforts to regulate short-term rentals as unsuccessful and insufficient to curb the negative impacts of such rentals, and to ensure that Pacific Grove has adequate housing for city residents to remain the “city of homes” as provided in the City’s Charter, General Plan and Municipal Code. It also recognized that the city may continue to regulate short-term rentals in the Coastal Zone as long as those regulations protect the community and are consistent with laws administered by the California Coastal Commission. Lastly, it proposed prohibiting short-term rentals in designated residential districts without changing existing rules that permit home-sharing.

Run The Short Term Rentals Out Of Town