Re-Education Camp At R.H.D.

Using public school properties to show propaganda and gain political support. Ain’t that special. Can I have a screening of the documentary Blue  at Robert Down?

Protect Monterey County is a coalition of Monterey County and Central Coast individuals, businesses and other organizations who are mobilizing to place the Protect Our Water: Ban Fracking and Limit Risky Oil Operations measure on the November ballot for Monterey County.

“We will be gathering signatures at the event,” said Eavey. The goal is to gather 15,000 signatures before the May 1 deadline. “We need 7,500 good signatures but since the error rate is about 30 percent, we made our goal higher.”

Re-Education Camp At R.H.D.

New City Manager Hired

City Hall Help Wanted

Expert bureaucrat, does not yet know what “makes Pacific Grove unique and special”

Prior to coming the Monterey Peninsula, he was the city manager for the city of Avalon on Catalina Island from September 2013 to November 2015. Before that, Harvey worked as a regional manager for local public affairs for Southern California Edison for seven years.

“I’m working to understand everything that makes Pacific Grove unique and special and trying to keep it that way,” Harvey told The Herald.

New City Manager Hired

Traffic Calming Coming To Forest Hill

Traffic Calming
Freedom Advocates

TMAC looks forward to more “bump outs” like at Forest and Lighthouse, more raised dividers like on Central and throw in a couple of ridiculous Marina style roundabouts.

Pacific Grove residents may be looking at a more pedestrian-friendly portion of the Holman Highway corridor in the future.

That’s because of a study produced through a partnership between Caltrans, the Transportation Agency of Monterey County and the city of Pacific Grove that is looking at ways to change Forest Avenue and Sunset Drive to make them more bicycle-friendly and conducive to pedestrians.

Traffic Calming Coming To Forest Hill

Letters From The Editor: Moe Loves These People

Thank you Monterey Herald (March 27), Monterey County Weekly, Cedar Street Times, Carmel Pine Cone and KSBW television for endorsing Measure X, that will change zoning at the American Tin Cannery to allow a hotel at the site.

Thank you Mayor Bill Kampe, former mayors Carmelita Garcia and Jeanne Byrne, former councilman Alan Cohen, former school board member Beth Shammas and retired teacher Jean Anton for signing the argument in favor of Measure X in the voter guide. Others that signed the argument in favor, include civic leader Richard Stillwell, First Awakenings owner Craig Bell, and general manager of Asilomar Conference Grounds, Mairead Hennessy. Opposition to the argument was signed by only two residents.

— Moe Ammar, Pacific Grove

Letters From The Editor: Moe Loves These People

P.G. Art Center Looking For Money Making Ideas

Looking at the hours of operation, one might suggest being open more than just 24 hours in a week?

Art Center Hours

At an emergency board meeting Monday, all seven members of the center’s board who were in attendance agreed on some new approaches to keep the 47-year-old center viable and the community engaged with its economic health.

“We sat down and made some real action plans. The board was just 100 percent on board and confident to march into the future.”

Specifically, Brown said, plans were laid out to display the center’s art in other venues and to have more musical and performance programs. Improvements to the center’s entrance and a new logo are also in the works.

P.G. Art Center Looking For Money Making Ideas

Something Stinks At ATC

And it’s not kelp baking in the sun at low tide or squid drying on the shore like it was years ago.

ATC

It looks like there were lessons learned after the failure to turn Holman’s into some kind of “World Class” transient stay place.

A group dubbed the Committee Against Measure X sponsored by Unite Here, Local 483, sent out fliers over the weekend to Pacific Grove voters declaring “Measure X is wrong” and asking voters to reconsider the measure because it allows a developer to avoid the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

Woah, when the group that stands to gain power and money by making promises to a few hundred low wage hotel workers it against it there must be something under the covers going on.

The voters’ guide was mailed out, I like the bait this project is trying to use to hook y’all:

Recognition of Pacific Grove as a world-class destination and an innovative leader in conservation and sustainability

More like “How did this cute little town allow this to built?

Banquet, meeting, and reception rooms that will enable Pacific Grove to host large and small events, keeping that business in Pacific Grove

Look at the next line and tell me, who from P.G would use this place?

New luxury travelers who will patronize Pacific Grove restaurants, shops, and other businesses

The type of people that stay there will make the choice of Cannery Row or Carmel, not P.G.

State-of-the-art design, construction, and operational programs and technologies, as one of the world’s most sustainable hotels, that will save and recycle significant amounts of water and energy and reduce pollution and greenhouse gases

Ha! I knew someone would throw in the Substainable word once, but TWICE?

An ideal location at the edge of town that will help mitigate traffic impacts and provide additional needed parking for the City, resulting in reduced downtown congestion

Never mind that slow and getting slower traffic jam on Lighthouse Avenue to the tunnel.

A visitor and interpretive center and museum that will celebrate Pacific Grove’s extraordinary culture, its heritage and historic character, and its unequalled scenic beauty

A tribute to the scenery that will never come back

New revenues from transient occupancy taxes, property taxes, and sales and use taxes to support our library, police, fire department, parks, and other City services and operations

New opportunities for thieves.

Three hundred permanent high quality hotel jobs for workers of all skill and education levels, many of whom will be residents of Pacific Grove, plus hundreds of high quality construction phase jobs, many of which will benefit Pacific Grove businesses and residents

Most of the workers at hotels in PG cannot afford to live there. See the part about the traffic to and from PG.

At first it kind of appealed to me, keep the touristas at the border of town, pray that they stay on the ‘row and don’t bother me. But the thing is now sounding like the city whoring itself out to get a few bucks. Vote NO on Measure X.

Something Stinks At ATC

Union Against Hotel

Not even built yet and getting their name in there. Does CEQA relate to the NLRB or AFL-CIO?

483 Secretary Wages

A group dubbed the Committee Against Measure X sponsored by Unite Here, Local 483, sent out fliers over the weekend to Pacific Grove voters declaring “Measure X is wrong” and asking voters to reconsider the measure because it allows a developer to avoid the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

Union Against Hotel

Holmans Getting Gutted

Multi million dollar condos is the kind of town Pacific Grove is.

Holmans-hours

(Hahn) described 25 condominium units that will be located on the mezzanine, second, third and fourth floors and the rooftop as “very upscale” with 22 of them having ocean views and all priced according to the market and square footage. He expects them to be completed and up for sale by late 2017 or early 2018.the condominiums will range in price from $500,000 to upward of $2 million.

“As we build it, we want to honor the kind of town Pacific Grove is,” said Hahn, “and have it evolve in the right way.”

Holmans Getting Gutted

Failed Hotel To Be Sold

String of failures? Maybe it was better divided up as a rental.

John Hankard, a realtor with Sotheby’s International Realty, said the property will be listed with a price tag of $3.5 million once the current bankruptcy proceedings that surround it are settled.

In July the inn was abruptly shut down leaving prepaid guests with room reservations high and dry. That was after the lessee, Malibu business man Gary Peterson, filed for bankruptcy. The 16-room yellow historic inn located at 581 Pine Ave. is owned by David Spence who also owns Pacific Grove’s Beachcomber Inn. Spence leased the inn to partnership Monterey Peninsula Inns LP in 2001, who then assigned the lease to Monarch Hospitality LLC. In 2009, Monarch assigned the lease to PG Inn Inc. (principal Gary Peterson).

Hankard said Peterson has been behind in property taxes and transient occupancy taxes to the city, as well as payments to Spence.

Failed Hotel To Be Sold

Pedestrian Death In Front Of Police Station

Out of towner mows down woman walking across a red signal.

Linda Settnek, 67, of Pacific Grove died Jan. 29, two days after the collision.

The collision occurred at Pine and Forest avenues. The California Highway Patrol, Monterey Fire Department and an ambulance responded to the accident.

The Pacific Grove Police Department, with assistance from the CHP, determined that the pedestrian was at fault for walking against the traffic signal. The driver, a 67-year-old man from Sunland, cooperated with the investigation. Alcohol was not a factor in the collision and there were no violations on the part of the driver.

Pedestrian Death In Front Of Police Station