Realtors Object To Person Picking Up Trash They Leave Out

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I’d buy the man a cup of coffee to move the open house signs that block the sidewalks.

Kelller Williams Sign In Way

The Sheriff’s Office did not release the name of the man taking brochures because of the ongoing investigation and because taking the brochures isn’t a crime, Baldwin said.

“He has some personal beliefs he is pursuing,” said Sgt. Dee Baldwin. “We want the behavior stopped.”

The man is taking brochures from publicly accessible listing locations, Baldwin said, which means it isn’t considered a crime. It would be considered a crime if he was cited for trespassing. The man would have to return to a property after receiving a warning from deputies that he can’t be there, and the homeowner or real estate agent at the property would need to want to press charges.

The man told deputies that he expects to stop taking brochures Oct. 1, according to Baldwin.

Realtors Object To Person Picking Up Trash They Leave Out

California Approved Scams Coming To A Sidewalk Near You

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I just want to use the sidewalk to walk, let’s not make every little space a commerce zone. Make the business permit cost a hefty one

Pretzel carts, hot-dog stands and jewelry vendors are coming to a sidewalk near you. Monterey is adopting rules to regulate these tiny businesses following the signing of a state law prohibiting cities from banning the practice.

Three areas in Monterey Cole is recommending to the council to ban or heavily restrict vendors are at Cannery Row, Monterey Bay Recreation Trail and Fairgrounds Road.

Cannery Row is singled out because of its abnormally high volume of pedestrians and the subsequent safety issues that would present, Cole said. The restriction would prohibit sidewalk vendors between the hours of 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends and holidays. The restriction would be on sidewalks between David and Hoffman avenues.

California Approved Scams Coming To A Sidewalk Near You

Street Vendors Are Coming

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Pushy carnival atmosphere is not just for Carmel cosmetic shops.

Even if the city wanted to keep food carts and other vendors off sidewalks its hands are tied, with certain exceptions. California Senate Bill 946 was passed late last year with the idea of enabling small businesses that cannot afford a storefront to also make a living.

The law, also called the Safe Sidewalk Vending Act, stipulates that California cities cannot ban vending in parks, cannot determine where vendors can operate and are no longer required to ask permission from adjacent businesses to operate. The exceptions to these mandates are spelled out specifically in the language of the legislation but can be summarized as restrictions necessary to ensure the “health, safety or welfare concerns” of the public.

Street Vendors Are Coming

 

San Jose Beer Gets P.G. Head

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Refrigerated right in Pacific Grove.

  brewed Someplace else

butterfly farts beer

Right now the beer is made in San Jose under contract with another brewer. Tope, who runs Employnet, a staffing and recruiting company based in Monterey, has spent the better part of a year soaking in the suds business from every angle.

Tope said within the next five months, PGBC will be brewing and bottling the beer themselves in either Sand City or Marina.

San Jose Beer Gets P.G. Head

You And Me Baby Ain’t Nothin’ But Mammals

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Lobster onesie

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is hosting its first-ever adult sleepover, which means the kids are going to grandma and grandpa’s house.

The aquarium is celebrating its 35th anniversary with a 1980s themed slumber party. It’s called “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of Seaweed): An ’80s Sleepover Party,” a nod to the 1983 Eurythmics song, “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” according to The San Luis Obispo Tribune.

Tickets cost $175 for non-members and $150 for aquarium members. They’re on the high-end but it includes a build-your-own-taco dinner, an ice cream sundae bar, alcohol, and breakfast in the morning.

You And Me Baby Ain’t Nothin’ But Mammals

NIMBYs Still Believe Affordable Means Ghetto

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301 Grand story continues. I recall the apartments that were there were classic P.G. Old, kind of sketchy but cheap.

301 Grand

Neighbors said they have no complaints with the building under construction but object to the one containing affordable units, which is also two stories. Based on elevation poles outlining the proposed project, it is lower than a three-story neighbor on Fountain Avenue to the project’s north boundary.

Pam Silkwood, a Carmel land-use attorney representing Carolyn Hill, who owns the three-story house behind the project, told the Architectural Review Board that the affordable units “impair the desirability of investment or occupation of the neighborhood.”

NIMBYs Still Believe Affordable Means Ghetto

Restaurant Sewage On McAbee Beach

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550 Wave street is Wave Street Cafe. Maybe the gulls liked it.

Kmby 1240 Tower 1

 

On Saturday around 1:30 p.m. a complaint of sewer odor was logged coming from 550 Wave Street. Monterey public works crews determined that it was a broken sewer lateral that was leaching into an adjacent storm drain, Anderson said. The storm drain leads to Monterey Bay near McAbee Beach behind Cannery Row.

The beach remained closed Tuesday pending completion of repairs to the sewer line that occurred on private property where a lateral pipe from the property ran toward the sewer main on Wave Street in Monterey.

Restaurant Sewage On McAbee Beach

No Early Beach Reservations At Feast Of Lanterns

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And this time, we really mean it.

Empty Beach Tarps

Moe is one of the culprits it seems.

Moe Ammar, president of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce and a fan of the pageant for 32 years, said he’s setting up shifts for family members an hour at a time.

“The chamber is supportive of the new initiative,” Ammar said. “The board of directors of the Festival of Lanterns has been going to the city for years talking about this.”

The decision is causing a bit of a dust-up in the community. Ammar said the neighborhood social media platform Nextdoor has been lit up in past days with debates over the decision.

And City Manager Where’s Ben Harvey equates it to blocking the sidewalks. See anyone picking up tables, signs, trash cans and putting them in a collection spot?

In the days leading up to the festivities, unattended items like blankets, tarps, chairs or cones will be picked up by city crews and taken to a collection bin in the park. Signs are posted at the park to alert attendees of the new prohibition, said Ben Harvey, Pacific Grove’s city manager.

“This is a public area and it’s no different than putting out chairs on sidewalks,” Harvey said. “They don’t have the right to do that. It prevents access to public property and no one has the right to claim the area for their own.”

No Early Beach Reservations At Feast Of Lanterns