Category Archives: Pacific Grove

P.G. Motels – Remember When You Could Gouge The Moto GP Fans?

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Some blame the July 4 schedule, some the economy. But I betcha there’s some bad mojo about those days when the crusty P.G. motels demanded $300/night 3 night minimums…

Moe Ammar, president of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce, said the 1,163 rooms in Pacific Grove are 73 percent sold for the weekend. Hotels are offering rates as low as $99 a night, he said.

Pacific Grove’s hotels were sold out the past two years for the races, when they were later in July; the July Fourth holiday was 88 percent sold last year.

P.G. Motels – Remember When You Could Gouge The Moto GP Fans?

Lovers Point Restrooms Locked Up

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There once was a full time employee to do nothing but maintain bathrooms in the park? Where was that employee when it was “bad then”?

“It’s malicious, filthy,” she said. “There’s a very dirty, malicious group of people out there these days.”

Two years ago, the city had a person available all day to tend to the park restrooms, she said, and the problem was “bad then. It’s worse now.”

Lovers Point Restrooms Locked Up

Baby Drop Off Site: P.G.F.D.

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Unwanted babies in P.G?

State Senate Bill 1368, the “Safe Baby Surrender Bill,” adopted in 2001 and amended in 2005, exempts parents or people holding legal custody of a newborn less than 72 hours old from prosecution for abandonment if the child is surrendered to a hospital or other designated safe surrender site. Fire departments in Seaside and Monterey have been designated such sites because they are staffed 24 hours a day. On Wednesday, the Pacific Grove City Council designated the city fire station as a safe surrender site for unwanted newborns.

Baby Drop Off Site: P.G.F.D.

How About No Parking For Kooky Dog Walkers?

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Congress Ext

Citing costs, the need for zoning changes, and the availability of parking some hundred yards away on Forest Lodge Road, the Council went with the lower-cost – and potentially revenue-generating – option of installing more “no parking” signs and asking Pacific Grove Police to enforce the no parking zone.

This example of wasted efforts started back in January. While all attention was being placed on giving dog owners a place to DRIVE TO & PARK THEIR CARS AT so they can then take a walk, the rest of the city is crumbling.

Besides, if P.G. really wanted to use parking fines as a way to increase revenue, all they need to do is go to the 200 block of Fountain where restaurant workers/owners park their cars all day long..

Parking Victorian Corner Cars

How About No Parking For Kooky Dog Walkers?

Our Mvsevm Is Gone

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Public-Private Partnership. Cradle of Corruption.

The Mvsevm

Opinion Piece in Hear-Old by our own esteemed judge of morons, Dan Cort.

Despite the museum’s cultural and scientific treasures, the city had cut the museum’s budget to a bare minimum and more cuts were on the horizon. But with the City Council’s vote Wednesday night, it looks like the museum will emerge from a chrysalis of under-funding and near-closure to a revitalized resource with an energetic future. What lessons can we learn from this success to help keep other community assets viable in these financially challenging times?

The answer is we need to reinvent our relationship with our government. We need to realize that government is very good at some things, and the private sector is very good at others. By forming partnerships between government and the private sector, we can strive to achieve the best of both worlds. In Pacific Grove we’re doing just that. The city and a private group of citizens formed a public-private partnership that was supported Wednesday night by the City Council..

Our Mvsevm Is Gone

Substainable Pacific Grove To Take Over Safeway?

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Mayor Cort thinks that adding ‘substainable features’ to a business is somehow beneficial. Maybe more morons will shop there. Disagree and maybe they will impose eminent domain to take over the property and ruin Forest Hill too.

Safeway Forest Hill 3 Forths

Cort says the city-owned Bathhouse, golf clubhouse and golf links should be tapped to make more money. The city should encourage the Safeway on Forest Avenue to expand and add green features, he says, and look for more opportunities to use philanthropy for public services.

Sustainable Pacific Grove To Take Over Safeway?

Maybe The Flags Will Draw Shoppers

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Soon, in addition to the flags, the public will notice an improvement in the planters on Lighthouse. Through a cooperative involving the BID, Pacific Grove Public Works, Jeanne Anton of the Beautification and Natural Resources Committee and volunteers

Planter in need of improvement:

A Bird In Every Pot

And the merchants themselves might need to look at their own way of doing business. “I heard it just last weekend from a regular out-of-town customer who had once considered opening a business here. She said, ‘You’d have to be filthy rich to open a business in Pacific Grove. They’re closed all day Sunday and they go home at 5:00 p.m., exactly when most working people can go shopping.’

So true of the downtown retail shops. Art galleries have even shorter hours.

Maybe The Flags Will Draw Shoppers

P.G. Police Delay Their 9.8% Raise

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9.8% in times like these. Wow.

PG Cops On Break

Association President Ami Losinger said police are willing to forgo the 9.8 percent raise authorized in their contract with the city — that expires in December 2010 — until January, a move that would save the city approximately $275,000 this year and next year.

In return, she said, the police association asked that its contract be extended through 2012 and that raises be paid in steps starting next year.

P.G. Police Delay Their 9.8% Raise