Category Archives: Monterey Herald

Jan Leasure Says We Can’t Stop STRs

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Landlords will do as the please to tear down the hometown.

“When you live in a neighborhood, I understand how it feels if it’s not going in the direction you want it to,” said Jan Leasure, owner of Monterey Bay Vacation Rentals. “But short-term rentals will keep happening.”

But a perusal of any of the short-term rental websites reveals anywhere between 50-200 vacation rentals in Pacific Grove.

Leasure has been in the property management business for more than 30 years and believes that “as long as there is a demand on the Peninsula, people will continue to look for short-term rentals.”

According to Leasure, vacation rentals will continue to prosper in places like Pacific Grove with its small-town feel and proximity to the ocean. “You can’t stop it, because you can’t legislate who buys a house.”

Jan Leasure Says We Can’t Stop STRs

Stupid One Man Crime Wave In Pebble Beach

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Stupid because he returned to a crime scent to continue his take, when cops investigating caught him.

Monterey County Sheriff’s deputies were doing a follow-up investigation early Tuesday near Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach, where two burglaries, one theft from a vehicle as well as the theft of a vehicle, were reported between July 20 and July 27.

At about 8:50 a.m., deputies revisited one of the burglarized homes, on the 3000 block of Cormorant Road, and found Edward Vincent Caraccia allegedly burglarizing it. Deputies believe he entered the house through the rear windows.

Stupid One Man Crime Wave In Pebble Beach

Quiet On The Set

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T.V. show production in P.G. Moe is having orgasms.

“Some of them have been here for the past few weeks,” said Ammar. The entire crew arrives on Aug. 17 and leaves on Sept. 3.

Asilomar Conference Grounds will serve as their headquarters with any overflow going to other nearby Pacific Grove hotels. They will be using local transportation, tour, whale-watching and kayaking companies while in the area, said the chamber president.
The networks will be anchoring coverage at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessels.

Quiet On The Set

Sewer Rate Increases

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Never mind the lack of maintenance and failing MRWPCA pump station. Pay Per Flush and Smart Sewer Meters can’t be far behind.

A discovery that the city had been overcharging customers for several years angered many and led to a grassroots effort to overturn a 10-year rate hike proposal, with 1,421 residents penning letters against the idea. But it wasn’t enough to stop the move — 3,051 responses were needed — and the City Council unanimously adopted the increases.

“We’re going to be able to move ahead,” said Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Kampe just after the responses were tallied.

The figure was not what the opposition had hoped for. The controversy arose after the city collected $600,000 in sewer fees over the last few years without issuing a required notice to ratepayers. During that time, the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency also raised its rates, which were linked to the city’s rate and added to homeowners’ bills.

Sewer Rate Increases

Diver Dies At San Carlos Beach

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A diver who encountered problems during a training exercise at San Carlos Beach in Monterey over the weekend has died, coroner’s office officials confirmed Thursday.

Exactly when she died is unclear, but on Saturday afternoon when she was taken to the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula for treatment, paramedics said she was unresponsive and had a pulse.

Diver Dies At San Carlos Beach

4,000 Year Old Skeleton Unearthed On Lighthouse Avenue

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Newest Outzenville apartments being built over native burial site. Nothing to be afraid of, right?

The mysterious male skeleton found on a Monterey job site last month is 4,080 years old, testing has revealed.
The age solidifies early assumptions he was Native American, significantly predating European contact.

The skeleton’s age did not surprise the local Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation.

“What can we say? These are our ancestors and we know they’ve been here for longer than the 4,000 years,” chairwoman Louise Miranda Ramirez said.

4,000 Year Old Skeleton Unearthed On Lighthouse Avenue

Newcomer Food Critic Moves In

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Drinks a bit much – super concern over lack of bars. What were you expecting?

I never imagined moving to the 93950, the land of Monarch butterflies, grenade-dropping seagulls and the ubiquitous red-faced, short-sighted nimby. But a few weeks ago I left Monterey and landed in Pacific Grove, a bit wary yet eager to explore “America’s Last Hometown.”

The first oddity: There are no bars in Pacific Grove (the city currently allows on-site consumption of alcohol only at full-scale restaurants — requiring at least 70 percent of seating reserved for dining).

The second oddity: Driving downtown after 8 p.m. is like riding into Tombstone before a gunfight. There are a few folks spilling out of the movie theater (great theater experience, by the way), and more than a few hospitality folks bellied up to the wine bar at Jeninni. But that’s about it. Carmel has a frustrating parking problem. P.G. can only wish for such a problem. A responsible, classy bar (even as part of a downtown restaurant) would help extend the nightlife past sunset. And it would also provide me with a home office.

Newcomer Food Critic Moves In

Casey Lucius Runs For Congress

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Good luck, you will need it running against Sam the sham, even when you support same sex marriage and abortions.

Politics

In a YouTube clip announcing her run, Lucius said voters who are concerned about jobs, water, the environment and national security should support her so “we can create a new beginning.”

In the “Issues” section of her website, CaseyLucius.com, she said she supports gay marriage, is concerned about climate change but wants to limit global spending, supports the Second Amendment and abortion rights in the first six months of a pregnancy.

“On the Central Coast, we have a gang problem, not a gun problem,” her website states.

Casey Lucius Runs For Congress

Spectacular Gateway For Monterey. Just Step Back 30 Years.

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What? Tear out all the parking and marina improvements to remake a beach that is likely to become a transient plaza for sea lions?

Wharfs 1960s

The waterfront plan, which has been put together during the past four years, is intended to transform Monterey’s shoreline between San Carlos Beach and Monterey Bay Park into a “spectacular gateway” for the city.

But many in the wharf business community say the proposal — which would eliminate hundreds of parking spaces in lots nearest the harbor by the city’s two wharves in favor of grass, walkways and a plaza — is anything but spectacular.

At a city Planning Commission meeting May 13, the battle over the future of waterfront parking under the proposed plan came to a head.

Wharf business owners and hospitality industry officials predicted the changes would drive away customers and cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in parking fees generated by the wharf lots.

Spectacular Gateway For Monterey. Just Step Back 30 Years