OK if they offer incentives that can reduce the tax, like being open 7 days a week and at least 10 hours per day. Tax property owners for empty storefronts.
The current cap for a business license is $3,000 while the minimum cost is $15. City Manager Ben Harvey said that both figures should be a lot higher.
“Both need to be reviewed and raised,” said Harvey. “We will bring back different scenarios to the council and what each one would potentially yield to the city.”
Second homes for S.F. Bay people. Thanks Keller Williams for blocking the sidewalk too.
Recently Pacific Grove is seeing a renewed interest from the southern end of the Bay Area. About 35 percent of the homes in Pacific Grove belong to people who do not live there full time.
“It’s just the last small hometown,” said Keller Williams/Monterey Peninsula Home Team realtor Jeff Davi. “It’s way out here on the Peninsula and it’s relatively quiet. It’s so safe and the prices are even less expensive than San Francisco.”
Since they’re only home on the weekends, second home buyers don’t use fire, police and other municipal services as often, even though they pay the property taxes for them.
On the flip side developers told KION second home communities make neighborhoods feel more like a ghost town. They’re also not shopping as much, so they aren’t contributing a lot to the local economy. Add to that, they’re competing for houses with locals who may not have big bucks and that has created some resentment.
Saved news article from KION news. Does the Mvsevm have a historical exhibit of a 100 year old sewer collection?
“In the fall of this year we will be replacing the sanitary sewer line along Oceanview Blvd., and in conjunction with that project we will be replacing over a mile of storm drain line,” said Gho.
“I think Pacific Grove really values its history. Its cultural history and its natural history. And I think the museum operates on both fronts to preserve all aspects of our history,” said Museum Collection Curator Paul Vandecarr.
This year is also historic.
“This actually marks the 100th year anniversary of the City owning the collection here at the museum,” said Vandecarr.
From Hawaii. I’ve felt their pain for a long time.
People sometimes forget how important tourism is and start lamenting there are too many people around, particularly when business is good, she said.
“It’s just a tendency for people to start complaining,” Dance said. “And so the thing is, let’s remind everybody again.”
But not everyone in Hawaii is on board.
Critics say the industry offers poorly paid jobs and exploits Hawaiian culture. But many complaints are about increased traffic and congestion
Rena Risso, a 30-year-old who was born and raised in Kailua, understands the positive aspects of tourism, but she believes they’re outweighed by the negatives.
“I think, as far as the local’s point of view, it’s humbug,” she said after an early morning walk. “I can’t even take my kids to the beach on a weekend because it’s so crazy.”
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Using public school properties to show propaganda and gain political support. Ain’t that special. Can I have a screening of the documentary Blue at Robert Down?
Protect Monterey County is a coalition of Monterey County and Central Coast individuals, businesses and other organizations who are mobilizing to place the Protect Our Water: Ban Fracking and Limit Risky Oil Operations measure on the November ballot for Monterey County.
“We will be gathering signatures at the event,” said Eavey. The goal is to gather 15,000 signatures before the May 1 deadline. “We need 7,500 good signatures but since the error rate is about 30 percent, we made our goal higher.”
Expert bureaucrat, does not yet know what “makes Pacific Grove unique and special”
Prior to coming the Monterey Peninsula, he was the city manager for the city of Avalon on Catalina Island from September 2013 to November 2015. Before that, Harvey worked as a regional manager for local public affairs for Southern California Edison for seven years.
“I’m working to understand everything that makes Pacific Grove unique and special and trying to keep it that way,” Harvey told The Herald.
Well that ought to keep the Sacramento tourists away. Pictures at KSBW.
Drivers involved in the 11 a.m. wreck said they were part of a sports car club from Sacramento. The group was on their way to cruise 17 Mile Drive in Pebble Beach when they decided to pull over in Pacific Grove by the ocean and take photographs.
As they were turning back onto Ocean View Boulevard, an approaching black Mazda convertible crashed into at least two of the group’s cars, club members said.
The Mazda’s personalized license plate frame read, “I’M NOT DRIVING FAST, I’M FLYING LOW.”
The Monterey County Health Department has closed San Carlos Beach after a sewage spill Friday contaminated the water.
Health officials also recommend no swimming or contact with storm drain water, which may be contaminated with bacteria, viruses, protozoa or chemicals and could cause serious illness.
TMAC looks forward to more “bump outs” like at Forest and Lighthouse, more raised dividers like on Central and throw in a couple of ridiculous Marina style roundabouts.
Pacific Grove residents may be looking at a more pedestrian-friendly portion of the Holman Highway corridor in the future.
That’s because of a study produced through a partnership between Caltrans, the Transportation Agency of Monterey County and the city of Pacific Grove that is looking at ways to change Forest Avenue and Sunset Drive to make them more bicycle-friendly and conducive to pedestrians.
I think that we as Americans have really come to expect inexpensive food. We spend a very small amount of our disposable income on food, and restaurateurs have to cope with that. They have to figure out how to offer food to us at a price we will pay, while buying the best ingredients that they can. And often, as in any other business, it’s buy low and sell high.
You confronted a lot of chefs about this, and a lot of them gave you the same answer.
[They said] “I guess that should come off the chalkboard.”
There were plenty of people who were honestly surprised to find something was still on the chalkboard or still on their menu many months after they’d purchased that product, and many others that were just caught red-handed.
