Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Giving It All Up For Tourists – Residential Area Weekend Rentals Approved

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Hey – there’s a solution for the homes that Canterbury Woods owns on Spazier Avenue but cannot occupy, rent them out to transients. How’s that for a keen idea for the NIMBYs that opposed CW from letting employees and guests stay in them?

The tune is different in P.G., where the City Council recently changed a 1993 law prohibiting short-term rentals. Under the new deal, vacation rentals are legit if landlords collect a 10 percent TOT and pay a $200-per-year licensing fee. The cash-strapped city expects about $200,000 annually out of the deal.

Giving It All Up For Tourists – Residential Area Weekend Rentals Approved

Canterbury Woods Was Wrong Says P.G. Hearing Officer

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Canterbury Woods

Another fact that drives home the point I make that Pacific Grove is no longer a city of homes, but a transient rest stop. Give it up for the tourists and get ready to lose tax dollars on defending another lawsuit.

Maybe Canterbury can make some money by renting out the houses as short term stay vacation homes, recently approved by the city. How would those Spazier Avenue residents like that?

Canterbury Woods retirement community violated zoning laws by adding two houses and a duplex in its neighborhood as residential units, said a hearing officer appointed by the city of Pacific Grove.

David Spradling handed down his final decision Monday after a Jan. 7 hearing at City Hall, finding that Canterbury Woods committed four violations of city zoning ordinances by using the dwellings as residential units.

Canterbury Woods Was Wrong Says P.G. Hearing Officer

Pebble Beach Golf Shuttle Shuffle

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Used to be you could drive into Pebble and park on the polo grounds or brave the soggy lots to park, or reward the young capitalists that ran private parking lots in their parents’ driveways. These days they keep most of the spectators’ cars out of the forest and make you ride buses into the event.

The best bus ride looks to be the Cannery Row shuttle. $10 for rides from Cannery Row parking garages to and from Pebble. $7 to park the car in the garage right next to the bus stop.

Keep driving past the CSUMB/Fort Ord 12th Street exit by Kohls & Best Buy. Exit on Aquajito Road. Keep going after MPC, land in Monterey or Cannery Row. If you are staying in P.G. head over to Cannery Row. You will be closer to some welcome services when you get back from crawling the course.

Next is the same deal in Downtown Monterey. Park in the garages on Tyler street and ride to Pebble.

Bad deal is the Pacific Grove Chamber Of Commerce. $15 to board a bus at the Mvsevm. There is no parking near the stop, you have to compete with locals to park in their neighborhood. When you return, you will be in the ghost town that is Pacific Grove.

Dreadful is the Fort Ord CSUMB route. Sure, it’s the first sign you see coming into town and it an easy on/off the freeway. But it’s out in the middle of nowhere (Marina).

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Pebble Beach Golf Shuttle Shuffle

Le Normandie Restaurant Special Of The Day: Frauduleux?

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Normandie

Wonder why they kept on opening & closing restaurants and didn’t just get jobs? The collective food talent looks great. Management skills look pathétique.

After the news began to question the the Richards’ stories of woe the whole thing goes aigre The news rack for the Pine Cone in front of the post office was vandalized the day the paper came out.

But to dispel doubt among skeptics who believe the Richards have feigned cancer to gain sympathy, Christine said she would provide medical records right away to prove that her husband and son had genuine illnesses.

On Tuesday, however, she said she needed another week to come up with the documents. And on Thursday, restaurant owner Nancy Lewis left a stern voicemail message:

“I want this whole harassment to stop,” Lewis said. “We are not going to give anymore interviews or information, and if anything more of this comes of this harassment and this National Enquirer point of view, then I’ll get my lawyer involved. This is it, Kelly. Stop it.”.

Le Normandie Restaurant Special Of The Day: Frauduleux?

Tree Gets Death Sentence For Crime Of Being There

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Lisa “Bare” Bennett sat out on this one.

Wallcot Pine Tree

A stately and apparently healthy Monterey pine towering over a Pacific Grove house will come down, the Pacific Grove City Council ruled 5-1 Wednesday.

Residents Stephen and Michaela Braveman sought removal of the tree that stands on the city right-of-way in front of their house at 239 Walcott St. after several Monterey pines in neighboring George Washington Park toppled during a storm in October.

The 30-year-old tree was examined by two former city foresters and both pronounced it healthy but in need of trimming, said city public works director Celia Perez Martinez.

Tree Gets Death Sentence For Crime Of Being There

Stupid P.G. Criminal Caught In Act

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A Pacific Grove man was arrested on suspicion of burglary Tuesday after a neighbor spotted him climbing into a window of a residence, police said.

Pacific Grove police said they arrested Andrew Scott Middlebrook, 19, about 11:30 a.m. after he ran from the home near Gibson Avenue and Monterey Street. He was caught with stolen property a few blocks away after a short foot chase, police said.

Now look at this picture and ask why the news calls him a ‘man’.

Andrew Scott Middlebrook

That’s no man. Might be some inmates best friend though..

Stupid P.G. Criminal Caught In Act

Better Than A New Web Site, More Sensible Than A Tourist Trolley

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End the furloughs. Put some employees back to work.

The mid-year review of the city’s financial situation indicates that the city has the ability to cancel the remaining six furlough days, according to the city council agenda.

Cancellation of the remaining six furlough days would cost the city approximately $65,000.

Better Than A New Web Site, More Sensible Than A Tourist Trolley

Arsonist Pleads Guilty In Tattoo Shop & Restaurant Fires

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In all the news articles reporting on this there is no mention whatsoever of the suspicious fire at the David Avenue apartment complex that happened around the same time.

Nathan Augustine, age 28 of Pacific Grove, pled guilty to two counts of arson and admitted using an incendiary device.

Police searched Augustine’s house and found numerous containers of lighter fluid, gloves similar to gloves found at the Lattitudes Restaurant, and the unique symbol similar to the British Union Jack with additional lines through it. Augustine was arrested and confessed to the crimes.

Arsonist Pleads Guilty In Tattoo Shop & Restaurant Fires

Mayor Delivers State Of The City Message

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One sentence sums it up:

People are out of work, businesses are closed, and residents have lost their homes to foreclosures, Garcia said.

Nothing earth shattering. Carry on. Write some checks to bring tourists to P.G. and never mind there is nothing for them to do when they get here, they will be mad as heck and go to Carmel. Library cuts hours, police are short staffed, birds poop.

Mayor Delivers State Of The City Message

Boy Scouts Celebrate 100 Years. P.G.Troop 90 Says “Been There, Done That”

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Congratulations BSA and thank you Troop 90.

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The Boy Scouts of America will mark its 100th anniversary Feb. 8, when the first scout troop was officially chartered in 1910.

But Troop 90 in Pacific Grove claims to trace its lineage to a scout organization founded in 1908 at the Presidio of Monterey.

Pacific Grove Troop 90 claims to be Troop 1’s direct descendant. In an exchange of letters between Alfred Young, executive of Scout Council 25 in Salinas, and Bullard’s wife in 1936, Young reported that Troop 1 operated from 1908 to 1912, drifted gradually to Pacific Grove from 1912 to 1918, and was registered as Troop 1, Pacific Grove, from 1918 until 1924, when the number was changed to Troop 90.

Boy Scouts Celebrate 100 Years. P.G.Troop 90 Says “Been There, Done That”