Category Archives: Pacific Grove

New Vacancies – Not Open For Business

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Forest Avenue has two new empty properties –

The Business Center that moved to the closed Greens Camera location a year ago. Guess that a store that relies on other businesses just does not have enough customers in P.G. No need to fax a painting or express mail a used dress.
PG Business Center

And the weird One Eyed Art gallery is vacant. No more creepy stares directed at City Hall.
No Eyed Art
That stupid sandwich board sign at the corner of Forest and Laurel needs to be changed again to match the number of galleries up the street.

4 art galleries FTFY

New Vacancies – Not Open For Business

P.G. Has The Highest Permit Fees

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Hey, they have to find a way to pay the high-paid staff somehow. And it never stopped Juan The Builder from flipping houses
Juan The Builder Sunk It

In comparing Pacific Grove’s fees to the county and other cities, the grand jury asked each jurisdiction what it would charge to handle plan checks and building permits for a 1,400-square-foot home with construction costs of $350,000.

In Carmel, the fees would be $3,949.69, while Pacific Grove would charge $10,091.38. Monterey would charge $6,491.92, while the county would charge $5,016.51 for the same structure, the grand jury found. City officials did not return messages left by The Pine Cone Thursday.

P.G. Has The Highest Permit Fees

P.G. Volunteer Fire Department Ignites

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But does not seem to get close to the flame..
Fireman

The association will have up to 35 members older than the age of 18, maintain its own insurance and receive no paid compensation for training and services the members provide.

Those services, Frutchey said, may include preserving records, equipment and artifacts of the Pacific Grove Fire department, maintaining and operating antique fire engines in parades and other community events, providing disaster response services, participating in fund raising, and working with other service organizations on activities that benefit the community.

P.G. Volunteer Fire Department Ignites

Weekend Home Rentals Approved

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Senior city planner Sarah Hardgrave noted that short-term rentals are already occurring in the city despite a prohibition enacted by the council in 1997 against rentals of single-family residences for fewer than 30 days.

She said licensing and taxing them could bring the city an additional $200,000 a year in revenue. Those who fail to register rentals, respond to neighbors’ complaints or violate provisions of the ordinance would be subject to penalties.

Since code enforcement is little to none, is there a contact to rat on suspected party houses?

Weekend Home Rentals Approved.

Failed Sand City Marijuana Seller Offers Pipe To P.G.

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But P.G. just says no no no no I don’t smoke it no Moe.

Hey, why should Monterey get all the fun & crime?
Butterfly Weed

Daniel Maniscalco went to the Pacific Grove City Council meeting Wednesday night and presented his plans for a non-profit cooperative during public comments.

The issue was not on the agenda so city council members did not address it but Mayor Carmelita Garcia said it does violate the city’s zoning codes.

Failed Sand City Marijuana Seller Offers Pipe To P.G.

Pimp My Golf Course

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Spending more to make more? Please keep Moe away from the project. He’s not been doing a very good job lately.
Kelp tee

The Pacific Grove City Council will consider Tuesday a new marketing plan for the city’s golf course in an effort to generate more revenue.

New marketing would include a revamped website, ad campaigns in other cities, and partnerships with local hotels. For regular players, the golf course doesn’t need much help.

Pimp My Golf Course

Let’s Spend $$ On A New Slogan To Attract More Tourists?

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While library hours dwindle.

I wonder what the approval % would be like if there was a vote to spend revenues on attracting tourists.

Pacific Grove has an identity crisis, city leaders say. Butterfly Town USA, America’s Last Hometown and other catch phrases have left P.G. with an amorphous identity that fails even to hint at the city’s greatest attraction: its stunning coastline.

The city also has a calendar of quirky civic celebrations such as the Feast of Lanterns and the Good Old Days that make it a hard place to pin down. And that’s made it difficult to market Pacific Grove to tourists, the city contends. A recent study even suggested visitors are not aware of Pacific Grove and the attractions it offers.

Anyway – the best slogan is the truth – “Pacific Grove, For The Newly Wed & The Nearly Dead”

Let’s Spend $$ On A New Slogan To Attract More Tourists?

Holiday Shopping Bust In P.G.

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There have been a lot of people looking not necessarily shopping, there have been some days that’s very quite and I’m assuming that they are at the malls.

Bigger stores, bigger sales, and bigger holes in downtown Pacific Grove shops and for Dianne Lovejoy who owns two consignment shops, she’s had to do more to bring people in.

“It has made it necessary to have big sales even though this is a resale store and you are starting out at a quarter or a third less of original retail was were still having to have 50% off sales to get the people in the door,” said Lovejoy.

Who wants used clothes for Xmas? Ick.

Holiday Shopping Bust In P.G.