Pacific Grove’s Residents Launch Project To Limit Short Term Rentals

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Get out and sign that petition then remember to VOTE!
Check the neighbor’s website www.pgneighbors.com for some eye popping maps showing just how much of the town is being marketed to non residents.

Yes On M

Pacific Grove residents concerned about vacation rentals disrupting their neighborhoods have proposed a ballot initiative to keep the commercial operations out of their residential zones. A new public action committee, Pacific Grove Neighbors United, will be asking voters to stop the short-term rentals the city has allowed despite scores of complaints from impacted neighbors.

The group will host a campaign kick-off party to start a signature drive and every PG voter interested in signing; helping with the campaign or just seeking information is welcome to attend. The party will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, January 20, in Jewell Park, corner of Central and Forest Avenues.

Signature gatherers will soon spread out to the Post Office, the farmers’ market, grocery stores, and local events and even door to door in the drive that needs 1,000 valid voter signatures to get the initiative on the November, 2018 ballot.

Pacific Grove’s Residents Launch Project To Limit Short Term Rentals

Beaches Close As Millions Of Gallons Of Raw Sewage Dump In The Bay

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From those fine people that brought you ongoing sewage spills at Lovers Point We have another one by Monterey Wonder Water, better known as Monterey Regional Water Pollution Creation Agency.

Monterey One Water says as much as 4.9 million gallons of wastewater spilled into the Monterey Bay. The leak was caused by an equipment failure at their wastewater treatment facility in Marina. The beach coastline between Marina State Beach and Stillwater Cove, Monterey, California are closed as a result.

Beaches Close As Millions Of Gallons Of Raw Sewage Dump In The Bay

Monterey Getting $8,000,000 For A Short Section Of Recreation Trail Improvements

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Eight Million Dollars for “to go from Fisherman’s Wharf to the Coast Guard station”. The money is coming from a grant (taxes) called the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 that was sold to the tax payers as an investment to fix our roads, freeways and bridges in communities across California. As usual, Governor Moonbeam lies about where our tax dollars are spent.

At least put some lights up and maybe a few 911 phones to cut down on the rapes, robberies and assaults that happens on that dangerous trail.
Rec Trail Graff

“Solutions for congested corridors are usually for Los Angeles or San Francisco so one of the things that we try to do with this grant is highlight the importance of offering an environmentally friendly and alternate form of transportation,” said Andrea Renny. She said that by creating a smoother running trail, drivers could be swayed to become bikers, therefore the improved Rec Trail could also serve to alleviate congestion on the road. And while some have advocated for the need to separate the bicyclists and pedestrians in that stretch of the trail, Renny said that the Parks and Recreation Master Plan calls for widening the trail first before other alternatives can be considered.

Monterey Getting $8,000,000 For A Short Section Of Recreation Trail Improvements

Sea Lion Population Triples

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More orcas and sharks will quickly follow. Thanks Thom Ache-man.

Seal Posse Red Sign

But all the sea lions have caused problems.

They have broken docks and sunk boats at marinas. They have vexed salmon fishermen, following their boats and eating valuable fish off their lines.

“With some fishing days seeing as few as five to 10 fish, a commercial fisherman can still make money with 10 fish if they are $10 per pound, but if you’re losing them to sea lions that can have a major effect,” said John McManus, executive director of the Golden Gate Salmon Association in San Francisco.

Sea Lion Population Triples

Headline Of The Month

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No happy ending to this massage parlor.
Monterey rubs out suspect massage parlor

The Massage Envy in Monterey closed this week with no explanation.

The permanent closure comes just weeks after the national chain faced allegations of sexual assault at location across the nation.

In November a Buzzfeed report uncovered claims from 180 people had been filed against the company alleging sexual assault in its massage rooms. In November when the news broke there had been no reports of employee misconduct at the Monterey location.

Headline Of The Month

Park In Parker’s Park?

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Not many van dwellers willing to take up offer. Why? Because there are rules? Because it’s easier to park on city streets?

$150,000 spent. Six people served. Tax and spend.

According to a report to the county Health and Human Services committee, a total of six participants have signed up so far for the program, including its access to case management services aimed at providing links to jobs and housing. But none had actually parked at the site as of last week

Park In Parker’s Park?

Someone Has A Twisted Sense Of Humor

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Happy New Year!

Zoominfo.com, some data mining and selling company has an entry showing ex city manager Tom Fruitcheese as the City Manager at this website.
Zoominfo Thomas Frutchey Manager LHA

More laughs, an estimated value in the millions
Zoominfo LHA Revenue

And Mr. Fruitcheese has some interesting co-workers, like the teacher caught making meth
Zoominfo LHA Employees

For the record, the revenue of LighthouseAvenue.com is about negative $52 per year.

Someone Has A Twisted Sense Of Humor

Burglar Caught After Citizen Witnesses Break In

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Don’t mess with South of Sinex.

Salinas resident Marcus Swingle, 29, was climbing out of the window of the Forest Hill Ace Hardware located at 1136 Forest Ave. in the Fairway Shopping Center at around 4 a.m. The officers were there to greet him.

Officers credited an observant citizen who had noticed someone who appeared to be breaking into the store. The citizen subsequently notified the police, providing them with a run-down of what the suspect was doing.

Burglar Caught After Citizen Witnesses Break In

301 Grand Avenue Gets Orders To Be Torn Down

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301 Grand

City Building Official John Kuehl who issued a notice and order to vacate and demolish the building located at 301 Grand Avenue because it was deemed “unfit for human occupancy.” Kuehl gave the tenants until the end of January to move out of the structure, which is listed on the city’s Historic Resources Inventory.

Specifically, the notice addressed to the building’s owner Manal Mansour noted that the building’s exterior surfaces have decayed to a point of allowing water to enter the building and that its structural members aren’t properly maintained and are in a deteriorated condition.

The two-story structure was a mixed use building that had primarily commercial and office uses on the ground floor and three apartments on the second floor, according to Mark Brodeur, the city’s community and economic development director. But Brodeur said the owner had future plans to build out the second floor because in its current capacity it wasn’t a full two-story building.

301 Grand Avenue Gets Orders To Be Torn Down

Cannery Row Business Sued Over ADA

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Cannery Row Brewing

In a suit filed Dec. 28, 2017, Timothy Cleveland alleges that when he visited the Cannery Row Brewing Company on Dec. 30, 2015, and tried to use the downstairs restrooms, he was told the elevator was out of service. “He was informed the nearest accessible restrooms were in a parking structure that would have required him to navigate outside the restaurant and encounter steep slopes,”

Cannery Row Business Sued Over ADA