The patch of trail at the bottom of Forest Avenue is completed. Nice fake rocks support the repaired section.
There’s a board at the bottom of the post & rail fence to keep small critters from sliding under. Also note the removal of the defined walking path. The decomposed granite is gone.
And that P.G./Monterey Fire department merger is on, BTW.
Monterey Fire Battalion Chief Stewart Roth said a construction worker was trapped near the intersection of Ocean View Boulevard and Seapalm Avenue along the bike path.
Gabriel Godinas, an employee with James Sumerville, Inc., was trapped up to his waist in the ground. Rescue workers were forced to shore up the seawall before they were able to remove Godinas from the ground.
The abandoned line — originally owned by Southern Pacific Railroad — has been zoned “O” for open space in the city’s general plan, senior city planner Lynn Burgess said. The general plan describes the line as 12.9acres extending “from the Monarch Pines Mobile Home Park on the east to Sinex Avenue on the south.”
“Due to the unquestioned, open and uninterrupted use of this property for public recreation and trail use,” (city planner Lynn)Burgess wrote, “there has been public acquisition of this public recreation use and trail right-of-way by prescription.”
Union Pacific Railroad is offering its former rail line in Pacific Grove’s Asilomar area for sale, with an asking price of $1.6 million.
The property includes a .69 acre lot at Crocker and Sinex avenues that may be suitable for building. A railroad station once stood on the corner, according to Union Pacific spokeswoman Zoe Richmond in Sacramento.
The total 9.12 acre property stretches from Sinex Avenue to the Pacific Grove Municipal Golf Course, but most of it is “very thin,” she said, “not something for development.”
Union Pacific put the property up for sale about eight years ago,
Why didn’t P.G. buy it back then when there was money in the bank?
But need your donations. It’s another chance to get your name on a brick!
While limited emergency repairs were approved by the California Coastal Commission in early 2004, the process for gaining approval for the entire project involved several federal, state and local agencies.
The city will be seeking donations — an additional $192,000 — to complete the projects.
About 9:40 p.m., several subjects confronted a couple walking near the trail toward San Carlos Beach, threatened them and demanded their property, Monterey police said. The female victim was able to persuade the would-be robbers to let them go, and the couple left the area, police said.
Immediately after this, the robbers confronted, struck and robbed a male riding a bicycle on the Recreation Trail. This victim fled and called 911, police said.
Officers responding to the area located three men striking another victim and robbing him of his wallet. A citizen and members of the Coast Guard assisted in identifying and detaining the men.
Officers arrested Harvey Dale Byrum, 19, of Monterey; Justin Allen Casey, 18, of Seaside; and Jamar Khary Johnson, 20 of Seaside.
The trail follows the old train tracks from Spanish Bay all the way to Seaside. These attacks and robberies mostly happen between Lovers Point and Lake El Estero. Don’t go there at night.
Rec Trail – a very dangerous place at night.
That’s the major conclusion of the city’s recent community survey that gauged how residents rate Monterey on services, neighborhoods, safety and business districts.
The survey showed many don’t feel safe at night along the Recreation Trail between El Estero and Seaside. And a higher percentage of residents said they don’t feel safe in parks at night.
While those findings may reflect more “how people feel rather than what is,” Meurer said more police attention to the Recreation Trail and beaches will be possible because officers have been hired to fill vacancies and the department is near full strength.
About 11:25 p.m., a 31-year-old man was walking on the trail near the Naval Postgraduate School when he encountered Robert Cepeda, 33, of Marina and the men began to argue, said Monterey Lt. Leslie Sonné.
When the fight escalated, Cepeda stabbed the 31-year-old, whose identity is not being released because of federal privacy laws, Sonné said.
About five minutes after they were called, officers found Cepeda on the trail at the edge of city limits near Roberts Lake. He was in possession of a knife that matched the description of the weapon used in the fight, Sonné said.
Dangerous place at night. Stay away.
“Now that we have our coastal permit, that is the door that opens us to get all of the plans finalized and get the project ready to go to bid and begin construction” said Steve Leiker, P.G.’s public works director.
Now that we have our coastal permit, do we have the funds?
Or taxpayer money well spent…
Nearly two years after installing a series of overhead lights along a section of the Recreation Trail, Sand City officials may have to tear them down.
That’s because, according to state Coastal Commission staff members, the current lights pose “adverse impacts to the sensitive dune(s) by altering nocturnal conditions in a manner that could affect species composition and behavior.”
According to Mayor David Pendergrass, Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel, brought up the lights issue to the Coastal Commission. Farr spokesman Alec Arago said the congressman had “expressed concern about the aesthetics of the lights.
“aesthetics of the lights”? This is not a wild remote nature preserve we have here, they are beside a frontage road that parallels a freeway. The recreation trail attracts people and promotes healthy alternative to cars. It needs to be safer.
