The Deer Are Fawning

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Signs in yards are OK, but please don’t nail or attach them to PG&E owned utility poles. Hazardous to workers that need to climb them.

Deer Xing

“I ‘ve had a report from a supporter who said they have several does in their yard that are very pregnant,” Garcia said. “A photo they sent me shows three does that look like they will have twins soon.”

Garcia, a former mayor of Pacific Grove, said numerous fawns have been killed in the city, mostly by vehicles, Last year, members of the group placed signs in residents’ yards warning drivers to slow down during the baby season.

The Deer Are Fawning

Having Ben Harvey On Staff Is Expensive!

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So who/what could be the root cause of all the litigation?

Harvey honk

The city attorney’s office currently operates with an annual budget of $688,800 — of which it has expended $403,000 through Jan. 13 of this year. In fiscal year 2023-24, the city attorney’s budget was $398,180. In 2024-25, it was raised to $625,000 and again increased in April of that year by an additional $520,000.

Ojai City Manager Benjamin Harvey clarified at a Jan. 29 meeting of the city’s Finance & Budget Committee that rising legal costs were largely related to a number of pending litigation proceedings and that the city was presently working with as many as six law firms on a litany of unspecified issues.

Having Ben Harvey On Staff Is Expensive!

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Country Club Gate Tobacco Shop Heist

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Country Club Gate is always a hot spot for crime. Merchants that have a lot of valuables need to install cages over the windows and doors just like Seaside. Too bad P.G. can’t keep enough police on the beats. Applicants? What prospective P.G. cop wants to be judged by the bumper stickers on their truck and not their merit?

Due to staffing constraints, police explained they cannot maintain constant contact with victims of property crimes.

They canvassed the area for surveillance footage, including from nearby Lucky’s and local flock cameras, but were unable to identify any suspect vehicles.

The store owner is reconsidering future business investments in Pacific Grove, stating, “But after this, that’s kind of demotivated me. You know why I’m going to bring my investment here and add more to the city where my assets are not safe. A lot of my business is not safe at all.”

Other nearby businesses are also concerned about the safety of Pacific Grove, with one local business owner, George Daoud, saying, “Mean, this is P.G., couldn’t be any safer than that. That’s I mean, we pay prime price for safety here. We do pay for that. So we’re not seeing it, and we’re not feeling safe around here.”

Country Club Gate Tobacco Shop Heist

Landwatch Claims P.G. Wasted Money On Climate Change Study

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Hired the lid flippers from Blue Strike Environmental. Landwatch wants to ban your outdoor BBQ grill, too.

(Landwatch) slammed a proposed climate action plan that cost Pacific Grove taxpayers nearly $100,000, saying it’s riddled with factual errors and unsupported claims, lacks critical analyses and doesn’t fulfill the terms of the author’s agreement with the city.
In January 2025, the Pacific Grove City Council approved paying $99,515 to Monterey-based Blue Strike Environmental to develop a so-called climate action and adaptation plan, which sought to “equip the city of Pacific Grove with actionable strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to climate challenges.”

Landwatch Claims P.G. Wasted Money On Climate Change Study

La Nina Is fading As El Nino appears

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Climate changes with the golf season.
El Nino

Looking ahead, the latest data shows most of California, especially the southern part, trending toward drier and warmer weather than normal through April. After a very dry January, this week did welcome some rain, however.

Once La Nina fades out, it’s probably only a matter of time before the opposite weather phenomenon of El Nino develops. Already, there’s an up to 60% chance that El Nino will form later this summer, according to the Climate Prediction Center’s latest forecast. Although this general guideline may be outdated, El Nino tends to bring wetter winter conditions to California.

La Nina Is fading As El Nino appears

Upside Down Car Found Floundering In Harbor

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Not the car found in the cove:

speedycop

According to MPD Lt. Ethan Andrews, shortly after 2 am. Feb. 1, offcers were dispatched to a submerged vehicle at the boat launch ramp near the U-S- Coast Guard pier. They arrived to find the four-door sedan overtumed and in the water “The vehicle was unoccupied and resting on its roof,” he said.
Surveillance video captured by a nearby camera showed the car “driving through the parking lot at a high rate of speed and down the boat launch ramp into the water,” according to Andrews. “The vehicle floated for a brief period before sinking.” They have the where, when and how, but not the who or the why.

Upside Down Car Found Floundering In Harbor

Luke Colletti’s Initiative To Allow Voters Decision To Increase Council Pay

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Vote Machine

Coletti’s move comes after the P.G. City Council in May 2025 gave itself the raise — after rejecting requests to allow voters to decide — and considered giving itself medical coverage, both of which drew significant opposition from residents.

Council members sought to increase their monthly stipends from $420 to $966 and from $700 to $610 for the mayor, which would have cost taxpayers about $50,000 annually, and more with benefits. Members Lori McDonnell and Paul Walkingstick voted against the pay hike, which was facing overwhelming opposition from the public. Mayor Nick Smith declined to comment on Coletti’s initiative.

Luke Colletti’s Initiative To Allow Voters Decision To Increase Council Pay

P.G. Looking (finally) Into Laws Regarding Electric Bicycles

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I remember getting hollered at by the tam o’shanter wearing cyclist when my children and I were an inch from the pavement as he sped by.

Easiest way to enforce safety would be to ticket any bike rider riding on the sidewalk. And as long as we are at it, make helmets mandatory for all riders regardless of age, on any two wheeled vehicle motorized or not.

Bike path speed

During the council meeting Wednesday, the council discussed existing city code and how it applies to e-bikes, bicycles and other devices on the coastal recreational trail, in parks and in other public spaces. The discussion focused on enforcement challenges, safety concerns and whether current regulations reflect current usage.

Currently, e-bikes are now allowed in Perkins’ Park, Lovers Point Park, Pacific Grove Golf Links, El Carmelo Cemetery, and the property ocean-side of Ocean View Boulevard to 17th Street. The exception is on the paved portion of the recreational trail.

P.G. Looking (finally) Into Laws Regarding Electric Bicycles

Drones Banned In P.G.

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Councilman Poduri wanted the long awaited ATC Hotel property exempt. Maybe this disguise can skirt the law:

The vote did not come without some bargaining after Councilmember Chaps Poduri demanded the future American Tin Cannery luxury hotel project be specifically excluded from the ordinance.

Poduri told the council that he did not want any more potential conditions placed on the project, located on the Pacific Grove/Monterey border, just around the corner from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and not far from the harbor seal pupping beach near Hopkins Marine Station.

He held his ground, refusing to vote for the ordinance as is, and although the other councilmembers argued that it concerned recreational drones only, not commercial, Poduri refused to budge.

Drones Banned In P.G.

P.G. Bike Safety To Be Enforced

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First, we need some cops to fill the vacancies.

PG911 Bike Patrol

“E-bike concerns and safety have been a priority of our Police Department for some time now, especially concerning our youth,” said Mogensen in a separate email.

A Public Records Act request with the city found that in the three-year span from Jan. 1, 2023, to Dec. 31, 2025, police issued zero citations for the municipal codes related to e-bike regulations. KSBW reached out to the police department for comment, but a representative from the department said they would not comment ahead of the city council meeting.

A review of the 2024 Annual Report produced by the police department, the most recent one available at the time of publication, showed that the police department had four vacancies, or 17%, for sworn staff. The report said one goal for the following years was to increase bicycle patrols.

P.G. Bike Safety To Be Enforced