Salinas: The Best Place To Live And Most Unaffordable

Highest crime rate in populous cities too.

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For midsize metros in the U.S., Salinas ranked as the third least affordable city in the country. The cost of housing was 66.5% above average and the overall cost of living was 10.7% above average.

Salinas: The Best Place To Live And Most Unaffordable

Salinas was just ranked as the ninth best place to live in California by U.S. News & World Report.

Salinas: The Best Place To Live And Most Unaffordable

So Long My Old Town

While the remaining businesses in the structure vacated it in late 2022, about a year ago, a repurpose of the rundown building has long been sought. In its place will be the Kimpton Hotel by IHG Hotels & Resorts, which, according to plans submitted to the city, will have a 3,615-squarefoot restaurant, 849-square-foot spa, 798-square-foot gymand a 12,677-square-foot parking area.

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So Long My Old Town

Public Comment On Zoom Prohibited

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“Beginning at council’s Nov. 1 meeting, the public may comment during the meeting in person or prior to the meeting via email,” Peake told The Pine Cone Thursday. “No public comments will be received by Zoom.”
The move will please some residents and council members because it will likely stop racist and sexually explicit content that has plagued several local city councils, not only Pacific Grove’s.

Public Comment On Zoom Prohibited

City Council Zoom Meeting Allows Racist Comments

Hateful Internet trolls. We are not ready to allow public comment via conference calls until technology to make speakers accountable is put in place.

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Referring to a comments about putting affordable housing on city-owned property, one man calling himself Guy Gator said low-income housing is a “very poor decision to make.” “When we put these public housings in our communities, you’re pretty much like lowering the property value of everybody else’s homes,” the man said. “Because low-income housing brings low-income trash like illegal beaners from Mexico and ni**ers and people we just don’t want here in Pacific Grove.

City Council Zoom Meeting Allows Racist Comments

P.G. Paying $85.26 Per Hour To Temp

Community Development department oversees planning, building, and housing divisions along with code compliance. Nobody in those divisions are worthy of stepping up while the hiring process is ongoing.

“The city is in need of a community development director on a temporary basis for a limited duration to oversee and manage the community development department,” according to a report to the council by human resources manager Leticia Livian.

On Wednesday, the P.G. City Council OK’d an arrangement that would allow Lew Bauman to temporarily serve as the city’s community development director.

P.G. Paying $85.26 Per Hour To Temp

New P.G. School Superintendent Another Come Here

No one ever moves up in the local ranks.

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Linda Adamson comes from a much larger district than P.G.’s. Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified has 34 schools and an enrollment of about 24,000. Pacific Grove Unified has two elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, one continuation high school and an adult education school. Its enrollment, as of August, is about 1,800.

Adamson obtained her bachelor’s degree in education from Johannesburg College of Education, in South Africa, and a master’s and doctorate degrees in school administration from California State University Fullerton.

New P.G. School Superintendent Another Come Here

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