Stockton TV station checking in with a story of poopy opium found by Monterey County Sheriff. Is this related to the e coli being found in vegetables?
(KCRA News)
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Short Term Rental Owners’ Crocodile Tears
Retired teachers from north unable to pay for their vacation home in P.G. without renting it out to different tourists every weekend, oh the agony.
“I’m devastated – we have one house that was considered a duplex and we lost both of those,” said Beverlee Taylor, who along with her husband Richard is a retired teacher who lives in Pleasanton but comes down to Pacific Grove often. The two discovered their love for P.G. 49 years ago when they honeymooned here.
“We don’t make much on it but we like to come down here with our family,” said Taylor, noting the $2,665 mortgage and close to $9,000 in taxes they paid. The proceeds they made on it as a short-term rental “met expenses … it paid expenses,” Taylor said.
Holman Condos: $1,400,000 And Up
What? No Bowling Alley?
Currently, the building’s 3,000 square-foot lobby, which will include a weight room, media center, bar, stage and lounge for private uses and special community events is having all of its electrical work finalized, according to Daniel Crnkovic, superintendent of construction. Eventually, it’s set to include marble floors and a grand fireplace.
Gash has ties to the community through his great-great-grandparents who came to the Monterey Peninsula from Oklahoma to work in the canneries. He said that opening up the space for community use is the company’s way of saying “thank you” to both the city and local residents who have supported the project
P.G. Pays Consultant $274K To Say “Fence Off The Shoreline”
Shoreline Management Plan = shoreline access restriction rules.
Remember when you could park on both sides of Ocean View at Asilomar and take your sweetie and a blanket to the dunes? Now it’s all going the don’t touch just look from over the fence rule.
The initiative, which is aimed at looking at ways to protect future public access along the shoreline while enhancing the area’s natural and cultural resources, will examine both challenges and opportunities involved in that endeavor moving forward.
The City hired Bay Area urban planning consultant Eisen/Letunic, which specializes in healthy and sustainable communities, for the preparation and development of the plan at a cost of $274,400.
P.G. Hiring Process
Family to police chief, not from the area and no HR experience.
Elizabeth Schalau, a recent transplant from Myers’ home state of Michigan, is acting as Pacific Grove’s sole human resources analyst under a $25,000, 12-week, no-bid contract. Schalau is Myers’ sister-in-law, despite contract language barring awards to “immediate family” of city employees.
Schalau resigned from her job in Michigan to take the position in Pacific Grove, and the city gave her $5,000 to help find housing here. The total value of the contract is below the level that would trigger City Council review.
Schalau has no direct human resources experience, though she said she has management expertise.
Anyone Want To Move Silicon Valley Industry To Marina?
Didn’t think so, it didn’t work the first time.
For the first time in over 15 years, open land at the University of California Monterey Bay Education Science and Technology (UC MBEST) Center is up for sale and ready for development.
In 1994, UC Santa Cruz received almost 1,100 acres of Fort Ord land from the Army. UCSC slated 500 acres for collaborative research-business development and positioned the other 600 acres as protected habitat. After developing the UC MBEST Center and infrastructure on the Central North Campus as a hub for research and development, the area stood mostly idle while the local economy was hit first by the burst of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s, then the economic collapse beginning in 2008.
And the expected overflow of light industry from Silicon Valley to the Monterey Peninsula never materialized to the degree many had envisioned.
STR Businesses Challenge Lottery For Permits
STRONGpg includes Joy Colon-Jello who’d rather rent her house out as hotel rooms.
At the time, Mayor Bill Kampe explained the system was meant to reduce density in 52 blocks in the city, noting that out of the 475 blocks in the city, 175 have STRs present and 52 of those are over-dense by a 15 percent criteria.
In response, STRONGpg filed a lawsuit in April seeking a motion for preliminary injunction that would stop the lottery from occurring in the near future while the complaint filed against the city in regards to the revised STR ordinance is being investigated.
Harveyspeak: We’re Not Doing Work In A Nature Preserve . .
. . . We’re doing improvements to a recreation zone.
All to bring a car auction circus to the golf course. Will Morrie Fisher get free admission?
City Council unanimously authorized City Manager Ben Harvey to enter into a five-year agreement with Worldwide Auctioneers for the annual car auction special event to take place on the 18th fairway during Classic Car Week in August.
In doing so, council members also approved proposed changes to the golf course’s 18th hole designed to accommodate the auction event, which displays more than 60 vintage automobiles ranging in price from $50,000 to $2 million. Specifically, the improvements would involve leveling a portion of the hole, which includes grading and filling, cart path realignment and the installation of a pedestrian walkway along Asilomar Boulevard.
Kayak Adventurer Halts Paddle For Poi
Was it the same failed lone kayaker from 2014?
A man who set out to paddle his kayak from Monterey to Hawaii failed to make it more than a few miles, only to have his kayak overturned in rough seas near Asilomar Beach Tuesday morning.
The 60-year-old unidentified man was unconscious and not breathing as rescuers performed CPR on him at around 7:15 a.m., Cal Fire Battalion Chief Mike Meddles told The Pine Cone.
Not End Of The Line For Caboose On Cannery Row
Sold for lower bid for feelgood reasons.
(Flickr Foto)
“I was really wanting to make sure that nobody out of the area was going to take it,” said Ciliberti, a Realtor with Keller Williams and Peninsula resident since 1982. “It’s a piece of history and a landmark.”
Although the Reinstedts received several offers with one prospective buyer willing to pay substantially higher than the asking price, Debbie Reinstedt said the couple feel good about the caboose’s new owner.