And they all thought that by filling out a survey the bill would be reduced.
District board chairman Tom McMahon said the board decided to act after it became apparent that so many business owners were blindsided by significant water bill increases late last year. McMahon, who owns Monterey Bay Laundry, counted himself among them.
McMahon said business owners expected a decrease based on promises contained in a Cal Am water use survey last summer and on the company’s website.
Director Of Public Works, after 4 years – Gone!
Retirement looms, as Zimmer sits down at his desk for the final month as the director of public works. He says he’s confident his small town city will continue to thrive and focus on infrastructure.
Zimmer began as the director in 2010 and will leave office by Jan. 31st. There will be an interim director until a permanent replacement is hired.
And the business district will self police the parking to make sure that shopkeepers and workers don’t take all the spots.
But word has it that there is little to no parking enforcement currently. In a rare moment of news reporting, the Cedar Street Bulletin is reporting that tickets are down and it is said that the parking officer is on temporary assignment.
So park as long as you want!
Developer Carl Outzen is seeking approval for a 32-apartment-and-retail project on several parcels now occupied by nine vacant, dilapidated buildings in the 200 block of Lighthouse Avenue and Foam streets.
He is proposing two buildings three stories in height with upper-story residential units and ground floor commercial-retail space. The residential units would be one- and two-bedroom units.
The City Council in November designated about 1.4 acre-feet in water for the project, which, together with historical water uses on the properties, will provide enough water, a commission report says.
Parking reserved for Happy Girls and their organic pickles. Don’t recall seeing any handicap plate on that microbus:
The city tried the longer parking time during the holiday season at the urging of downtown merchants who believe time limits were too short and turned away customers and visitors.
“Since then there have been further favorable comments from a variety of downtown businesspersons,” Myers said in a council report. Only one concern about the extended parking times was fielded, she said.
The police chief said the city’s Business Improvement District promised to work with downtown businesses to ensure premium spaces are not used by employees.
4 years after the search for less schlock we now have this one.
Kurt Overmeyer, city economic development manager, said the tool helps people scope out business opportunities and has a wealth of information about policies and programs.
OpenCounter brings “easy online experience — and cost advantages — to City Hall,” a city press release said.
Other Anti-Schlock Cyber-P.G. sites:
Mr Overmeyers’s own pacificgrove.fixdowntown.org – some kind of business community workshop schlock with documents to download that will choke a DSL connection.
The Pacific Grove Mobile app, featuring a tool to snitch on people feeding sea gulls.
Moe’s Chamber Of Commerce where every failed enterprise was once “the best thing to happen to P.G.”
Pacific Grove Business Improvement District a site that appears to be perpetually under construction.
The Wine Walk With Art (url now dead, available at Go Daddy!) where wining gallery owners discussed the business with little knowledge that it was view able by the public.
And Mayor Kampe suddenly discovers a letter from PB Co that he didn’t know he had. Perhaps he left it in Dan Cort’s ‘moron’ file.
The council sent a letter to the Pebble Beach Co. and county officials in November listing a number of reasons why neighbors of the project site oppose the location and asking the company to consider an alternative site. The letter asked the company to list all alternative sites considered, why they were rejected, why the company feels the proposed site is superior to other alternatives, and requested information on any studies done on alternative sites.
Earlier this week, Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Kampe said the company actually sent a reply letter, contrary to his statement on Sunday. The letter dated Dec. 20 from company vice president Mark Stilwell, which Kampe said he didn’t discover until Monday, outlined the company’s reasons for choosing the proposed site, but did not address the council’s request for any information about alternative sites..
Michael Lukehart, who represents Elder, said he learned through case discovery documents that “both parties had been consuming alcohol.”
Chief Assistant District Attorney Terry Spitz said the information did not stop his office from pressing charges against Elder.
“That is a fact that we were aware of and we took into account when reviewing the case,” he said. “We were obviously aware of it — we provided the information to the defense.”
LaRone and Daly were in a 2005 Ford driven by Daly when Elder’s Cadillac sport utility vehicle crossed into the opposite lane and into the path of the Ford, the California Highway Patrol said.
Elder, 30 at the time of the crash, was arrested by CHP officers and released on $430,000 bail.
City is against consolidation.
The Monterey City Council on Tuesday will consider taking final action to deny the transfer of a wharf lease for Rappa’s Seafood Restaurant from Anthony Rappa to would-be buyer James Gilbert, who has three other wharf restaurants.
Rappa, who has been running the restaurant since 1980, said Thursday that he hopes the council decides otherwise.
“What they are doing is counterproductive,” said Rappa, who at age 79 wants to retire. He said Gilbert has the money to make badly needed improvements to the property, along with plans to make it a “destination location.”
The restaurant sits in a good location near the end of the wharf, with a second-level observation deck overlooking the harbor.
KION failed to tell us, is the media biased against Ford?.
The accident happened after police say a driver of a Ford Escort station wagon driving southbound on First Street rear-ended a Ford Taurus, causing chain reaction.
The Ford Escort then drove into a parked car and a stop sign before coming to a complete stop.