Clearance!! We Really Mean It This Time!! It had to happen, Lighthouse Avenue now has a perpetual store closing, liquidation, going out of business, quitting, lost our lease, emergency clearance store in the Lane Furniture location.
Back last winter they promised the store was closing . .
C’mon, Just admit it:
Must be though selling houses these days. But not as tough as navigating the sidewalks, say if one was in a wheelchair . . .
In Union City the hazardous signs are confiscated:
For the past four weekends, a city employee, working overtime, has patrolled streets in search of violating signs. On the first weekend, courtesy notices, explaining the city’s longstanding sign ordinance, were placed on the signs. Since then, the signs have been confiscated.
At least 50 of them – mostly free-standing signs directing home buyers to an open house – still are sitting in the city’s corporation yard, Public Works Director Mintze Cheng said. No fines have been levied against the violators.
The signs were becoming a safety issue, Cheng said. Clusters of free-standing “open house” signs block sidewalks, while others end up in the street, she said.
But real estate brokers say the policy makes it harder to sell homes.
Oh boo hoo for the real estate shysters.
Lets take out the ghetto sidewalk graffiti signs too. But instead of holding them captive at the city yard, burn them . .
The spill was discovered about 6 a.m. near Washington Street and Del Monte Avenue near the Monterey Sports Center. The center and a nearby parking garage were closed. The tunnel to New Monterey was closed, knotting traffic in the downtown and Lighthouse Avenue area for almost four hours.
The City Council unanimously rejected installation of parking meters on Central Avenue; but not before laying the groundwork for what may be future problems including more budget challenges.
As an alternative to the lost meter revenue, Councilperson Scott Miller suggested changing the parking sign time limit from two hours to ninety minutes, saying “our parking enforcement guy made a killing down there. He would write 64 tickets a day and many of them from there” (Scott Miller was speaking as to the time he was Chief of Police). Wasn’t the two hour limit for parking on Central Avenue imposed to allow ample time for people to have a meal and do some leisurely shopping without fear of citation?
That was the intention of the two hour limits – however it looks like businesses take up a majority of two hour spots, leaving a precious few for those “leisurely shoppers”
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At the July 18 city council meeting many people spoke opposing putting parking meters at Lovers Point or Central/Eardley Avenues. A merchant pointed out that the current 2 hour parking spaces are not checked by the parking enforcement officers and that rolling the spaces back to 90 minutes and adding more enforcement would be better to turn over parking and increase ticket revenue. Great idea . . though many of the downtown merchants that take up spaces all day will need to be more active to avoid tickets.
A new stoplight is planned for New Monterey, aimed at improving safety for pedestrian and bicycle crossings at Lighthouse and avenues. Construction of the traffic signal is expected to begin today.
There you have it. Now, every intersection on Lighthouse Avenue in New Monterey has a stoplight. What next? How about a signal at Giannis Pizza, Longs Drugs, the surf shop, and when that’s done move toward the same on Foam street and then Hawthorne.
Here is it.
Administrators want the golf course to seek maintenance proposals from private companies, an action that could put 10 employees out of their jobs.
Eight of the employees are union members who must be offered other city jobs.
City Manager Jim Colangelo said he believes it’s unlikely a private company could provide the same quality of services at the course for less money, but he wants to provide residents — who may be asked to vote for a tax increase in November to bail the city out of financial difficulties — with a clear analysis.
Would they take a pay cut or decert? Nahhh.
Pro Med Smoke Shop. Three doors down from the American Cancer Society Resale Store.
Country Club Gate, where the locals cough.
