Category Archives: Monterey Herald

RHNA Goals Are Out Of Reach

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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.

Rooms For Rent

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

Tourist Bureau Don’t Want No Blind People

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How does one See Monterey when they are seeing impaired?

Trolley Riders

As part of the rebranding, the tagline that has been used for more than 10 years, “Grab Life by the Moments,” is giving way to a new brand platform, “Find Your Way Here,” which is said to be more than a tagline, as it is an open invitation to not only travel to Monterey County but to seek connectivity within, according to the organization.

The organization hopes to build upon the momentum of last year’s Long Term Strategic Plan, meant to guide the destination and tourism economy into the future. The new 2023-24 Business Plan continues the ongoing effort to drive the potential growth of $2.2 billion in incremental visitor spending over the next decade, said See Monterey.

Tourist Bureau Don’t Want No Blind People

Elephant Seal At Lovers Point

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Keep humans off the beach, sharks can’t be far behind.

A weaned northern elephant seal pup was spotted at Lovers Point Wednesday. According to Giancarlo Rulli, a spokesperson for the Marine Mammal Center, the center’s response team placed signage in the area due to the popularity of Lovers Point and the growing crowds.

Elephant Seal At Lovers Point

Are You Ready To Fight Godzilla El Nino?

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El Nino

Since 1951, there have been 26 El Niño events. Of those, 11 have been weak, 7 moderate, 5 strong and 3 very strong. Overall during all of them, rainfall in Southern California averaged 126% of normal. In the Bay Area it was 109% of normal.

During two of the three very strong El Niños, the winters of 1982-83 and 1997-98 were among the wettest in recorded California history, with massive Sierra Nevada snowpacks and major flooding.

The third, in 2015-16, was something of a bust. Hyped as a “Godzilla El Niño,” that event did see big winter storms, but they ended up hitting Oregon and Washington, dashing hopes of breaking a California drought, which didn’t end until big storms finally arrived in 2017.

Are You Ready To Fight El Nino?

Come-Heres Want To Remove the Grove Of P.G.

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Move. Why buy a home under trees if you have dendrophobia?

Wtf Tree

Christie Monson and Tim Calvert know the municipal battle well. With three, 50-foot-plus cypress trees in their front yard – and worries one or more will fall onto their home, especially amid consistently stormy weather of late – the Pacific Grove couple has been wrestling with the city to have the towering conifers removed.

So far, the city has denied the pair’s request, maintaining the trees are healthy and don’t need to come out.

But Monson and Calvert aren’t convinced. Instead, they’ve started sleeping as far away from the trees as they could get, moving their bed from their front-of-house bedroom to a nook near the back.

Come-Heres Want To Remove the Grove Of P.G.

Sick Rec Trail Attacker’s Parole Upheld

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Horse pucky.

Jason Blad

The grounds for approval, laid out at the board’s October hearing, rested on “Youthful Offender” factors, the DA’s Office said in a press release announcing Blad’s parole. On its website, the CDCR explains that the “idea of a youth offender parole hearing is based on scientific evidence showing that parts of the brain involved in behavior control continue to mature through late adolescence and that adolescent brains are not yet fully mature until a person is in his or her mid-to-late 20s.”

Sick Rec Trail Attacker’s Parole Upheld

Carjacking On Forest Ave

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While a passenger was in the car. Drove to Country Club Gate of all places. Looking to steal drugs?

Zachary Drehobl, 36, was booked into the Monterey County Jail on charges of carjacking, kidnapping, possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of stolen property, trespassing, tampering with a vehicle, resisting arrest and driving on a suspended license.

After an investigation, police suspected Drehobl had stolen a Mazda Miata out of Monterey, drove it to the Chevron station on Forest Avenue in Pacific Grove, and carjacked a Chevrolet Corvette Stingray with the passenger still inside. He then drove to the Country Club Gate site, the release said, where he attempted to forcibly remove the passenger.

Carjacking On Forest Ave

Wachs On Wachs Off

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Texas transplant fool (it’s the backwards hat) thought he could be mayor after living here 1 year. And the fools from Coast Weakly endorsed him?

Wachs

“It’s kind of a shock. I knew Mayor Peake would be a tough candidate to go up against,” said Wachs, who added that he hopes there is a large enough number of younger voices coming up in the future to lead the city.
Wachs, 40, entered late in the race “for his kids,” and said previously that he wants to help build a better city for them and future generations. Wachs came to Pacific Grove in 2021 from Houston with his wife and two young children. For the past two decades, his professional career has varied from creating billboards for sports teams to serving as an art director for venture capital-backed media startups.

Wachs On Wachs Off

Substainable P.G.: Trash Causes Climate Change

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Then the substainable kooks are contributing to climate change by breathing. If they really wanted to help….

Operated through a partnership between the city of Pacific Grove and environmental nonprofit Sustainable Pacific Grove, the effort is typically held on the second Saturday of each month. Since June, the pair have helped popularize the endeavor, now attracting upward of 25 volunteers to participate in the pick-ups on a regular basis.

Dunn explained that the trash pick-ups help satisfy Sustainable Pacific Grove’s larger mission to educate residents about individual and community actions that will help mitigate the impact of climate change.

Substainable P.G.: Trash Causes Climate Change

Success Lies In Seltzer

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Hint, it’s fermented. And we have not yet hit peak “wood fired pizza” with $18.00 breadsticks it seems.

Seltzery

Yelp photo

Bringing an effervescence to Lovers Point in Pacific Grove, the California Seltzer Co. has begun filling the space at 631 Ocean View Blvd. to become the first “seltzery” in California.

Veronica Camp, one of the founders of the company, said that during the process of creating the hard seltzer the company is known for, the subject of opening a seltzery was jokingly brought up but gained steam the more the idea was tossed about.

The seltzer is made from fermented cane sugar, a malt base, and the addition of different flavors to create unique profiles, such as hibiscus-lime, pineapple-lemon, and berry-rush, making the seltzer as refreshing as possible and not overly sweet, explained Camp. Hard seltzer refers to the alcohol content, which comes in at 4.5% by volume, similar to what is found in a light beer, but the hard seltzer is under 100 calories, below 2 grams of sugar, and is gluten-free.

Success Lies In Seltzer