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Write In Candidate Challenges Dan Cort

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Hollister For Mayor

Retired veterinarian Ted Hollister has thrown his hat into the ring as a write-in candidate for mayor of Pacific Grove.

“The tipping point” for him, said 77-year-old Hollister, was the council’s action to merge Pacific Grove’s fire department with Monterey’s, an issue he felt didn’t raise enough questions among the council members.

“I don’t fault their intentions,” he said. “I just disagree with the way they’re going.”

Or was the tipping point the flap over getting to move into Forest Hill Manor before the construction was complete?

Write In Candidate Challenges Dan Cort

Mayor Proposes Solar Investment In P.G.

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Tuesday night, the City Council and the Pacific Grove Unified School District board met in joint session to talk about sharing resources to save costs.

One of those shared resources, according to Mayor Dan Cort, could be rooftops.

Cort proposed in the joint session that the city and school district offer panel space on their buildings to an investor who would construct solar power-generating panels on them.

There are people that are stupid enough to invest in solar panels for Pacific Grove? We’d need another person crazy enough to climb up there and clean the bird poo off the panels.
Solar In PG Right

Mayor Proposes Solar Investment In P.G.

Mayor Cort Pitching Solar In P.G.

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On Aug. 20 Cort got the City Council’s nod to design a new city reservoir to store stormwater. Now he plans to ask the council to consider solar panels for all city buildings, and possibly P.G. schools.

The array could produce an estimated 550,000 kilowatt-hours per year– almost 90 percent of city buildings’ electricity needs, Perelman says. The electric bill savings could be used to help pay off the loan. In roughly 10 years the city would own the solar panels, which could last another 20-30 years.

That 550,000 kilowatt-hours per year – does it take into consideration things that naturally block the sun in Pacific Grove? Trees, fog and bird poop come to mind..

Mayor Cort Pitching Solar In P.G.

Election 2008 – Mayor Cort For The Win?

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Looks like Dan Cort is unopposed.

Politics

The major action is in the race for three City Council seats being vacated by incumbents Scott Miller, Dan Davis and Susan Nilmeier.

Six candidates have already qualified for the council race while another has taken out papers for a possible run.

The council candidates are Richard Ahart, Ken Cuneo, Carmelita Garcia, Bill Kampe, Deborah Lindsay and Susan Goldbeck, a former council member. Dan Miller has taken out papers.

Election 2008 – Mayor Cort For The Win?

Mayor Cort Wants To Transform Lighthouse Avenue Into A No Car Zone

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If the gas prices keeping tourists away don’t kill downtown this will. If I need to leave the car down or up the hill to go to the bank or hardware store, forget it. I’ll just keep driving all the way to Sand City.

Cort floated an idea that came out of the city’s Economic Advisory Committee. Pacific Grove could close several blocks of Lighthouse Avenue to cars, he said, creating the first “pedestrianized” downtown on the Peninsula.

Murmurs grew until the room was buzzing like a poked beehive. The noise drowned out the mayor’s subsequent comments on water storage and solar roofs.
But City Councilman Alan Cohen, who also sits on the committee and owns Lighthouse Business Center, is skeptical. He worries that commercial rents on Lighthouse – which are already at a premium – could be affected. And he doesn’t like the notion of customers walking several blocks to go shopping, then schlepping their packages back to their cars. “It would close off traffic on a street that brings a lot of people to town,” he says.

Rough estimate of the planned no car zones:

Ban Cars Downtown

Mayor Cort Wants To Transform Lighthouse Avenue Into A No Car Zone

Mayor’s Agenda – Redevelop Apartments Into Weekender Condos

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Every politician seems to have an agenda that is not revealed when campaigning. Better name is 7 Morons.
Tic Ommons Moron Manor

It’s called Oceans 7 and gives an impressive presentation from the sidewalk through its broad, open-ended, open-to-the-sky walkway separating the two parts of the two-story building (one side numbered 2-6, the other, 1-7) that are united by patterns made by the mid-century-modern stairway railings. Their clean lines criss-cross as they curve around the landings, recalling the optical rhythms of 1950s functional sculpture. A subdued little square of a garden atop a platform on the far side of the courtyard has a small, glazed spherical fountain with water lazily covering its whole shape.

Mayor’s Agenda – Redevelop Apartments Into Weekender Condos

American Tin Cannery Being Developed? With Housing?

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No April Foolin. I’ve thought this would be a much better hotel/convention site than the Holman’s Building.

ATC

Representatives for the owner,(. . .) Cannery Row Co. envision a model development that would incorporate “green” energy-saving building technology and turn the former factory building into a complex containing condominiums, moderately priced apartments, a hotel “that could compete with Pebble Beach and Carmel,” shops and service businesses.
Pacific Grove Mayor Dan Cort and City Manager Jim Colangelo agree that the property is underused.
Colangelo said city officials have had talks with Cannery Row Co. representatives during the past several years “trying to figure out a way the city and Cannery Row Co. can generate more revenue” from the site.

American Tin Cannery Being Developed? With Housing?

What Kind Of Green Is The Mayor Thinking?

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“The green and sustainable movement is ignored at our own peril,” Cort told chamber members who gathered for a lunch of fillet Mignon or vegetarian lasagna at the Inn at Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach. “It’s like taking yourself off the Internet. We’re not going to be left behind.”

Pacific Grove can’t compete with the big box stores of Sand City, the shopping centers of Monterey, or the high-end boutiques of Carmel, he said. So it has to offer its own unique appeal for shopping and tourism.

One proposal by the city’s economic advisory committee is for conversion of the portion of Lighthouse Avenue in the old part of downtown to a pedestrian-only area, making Pacific Grove “the first pedestrian-only city on the Peninsula” he said.

He talking out of two mouths. One says to be sustain, recycle, solar and the other says let’s worship those hydrocarbon emitting cars that are so despised by the likes of Joy Colon-Jello.

The March 5 agenda pitches a once a month gathering of cars, old ones – the most polluting of all:

The City Council will consider adding the “Pacific Grove Old Town Classic Car Show” sponsored by Rats to Riches, Inc. a non-profit to the City’s Special Events Calendar.
Reference: City Manager Colangelo
Recommended Action: Approve addition of “Rats to Riches” Car Show to the City’s Special Events Calendar

In the same agenda is a reconsideration of another auto-worship event taking over the city’s golf course:

The City Council will consider the creation of a Council Subcommittee of Council Members Miller and Nilmeier to negotiate with Concorso Italiano, Inc for an exotic car show at the Pacific Grove Golf Course.
Reference: Council Members Nilmeier and Miller
Recommended Action: Direct Staff to negotiate formal agreement for future Council consideration

What Kind Of Green Is The Mayor Thinking?

P.G. Mayor Takes The Side Of The Amorous Bugs

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Mib Alien

Pacific Grove Mayor Dan Cort supports the city of Monterey’s efforts to delay by 30 days spraying of pheromones to curb mating of the light brown apple moth, the city said today.

The planned aerial spraying is intended to prevent invasive light brown apple moths from breeding.

Maybe the Mayor is not all what he appears to be . .

Mib

P.G. Mayor Takes The Side Of The Amorous Bugs

Mayor Dan Cort Hands Out Polluting Pine Trees

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And not only do they pollute, they will block the sun from his solar panels.So here, have a free tree but don’t plant it near Cort’s house.

Pacific Grove Mayor Dan Cort is thinking globally, but acting locally. He and his wife, Beth, have donated 500 Monterey pine seedlings to be planted after the Good Old Days Celebration this month as a way to offset carbon dioxide generated during the event, which brings hundreds of vehicles and thou sands of visitors to town.

But Ronald Regan was right – trees cause pollution!

According to a study by the University of Helsinki, coniferous forests that is to say, those composed of trees such as pines release nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere that combine with other pollutants to form smog.

Several scientists and environmentalists contacted by the Associated Press for comment did not dispute the finding, though it contradicts the “conventional wisdom” that forests reduce pollution. Those who commented countered that forest emissions are part of the Earth’s natural balance, whereas man-made pollution is an addition and therefore an avoidable health hazard.

Mayor Dan Cort Hands Out Polluting Pine Trees