Darin Boville
Last fall, I interviewed Bruce Russell, who initiated and represented Wavecrest’s owners in the sale of the property to the Peninsula Open Space Trust. That deal closed yesterday for $13.5 million. There are many remarkable things about this sale, but most remarkable is Russell’s recognition of the opportunity to end the bitterness that has divided the community for more than a decade. Thanks to Darin Boville of Montara Fog for filming and editing the interview.
The Half Moon Bay City Council denied an appeal of a concrete crushing plant next door to the Hilltop mobile home park at its meeting on January 15. You can watch the entire proceedings below.
If you’re pressed for time, I recommend watching the eloquent testimony of the appellant [ Quicktime | Flash ] and the response of the city council [ Quicktime | Flash ].
Not having followed this case closely, I don’t have an opinion about whether this use should have been approved. But I was startled at how little interest the council showed in the amount of noise this use would create for mobile home park residents. CCWD commissioner Jim Larimer showed up with an SPL meter to testify that the city’s limit of 65 dB was about what he encountered in his Passat, which he seemed to think was appropriate. There was also some discussion of the noise from Highways 92 and 1.
It got me thinking about whether there should be more discussion and understanding of the issue of noise pollution on the Coastside.
Barry Parr
Half Moon Bay finance director Jud Norrell explains the assets that are available to the city to meet a legal judgement as part of his explanation of the city's annual finances. Don't be fooled by that $50 million bottom line. It's actually a lot less. [4 min]
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At its December 4 meeting, the Half Moon Bay City Council heard from the public on the Yamagiwa decision crisis. In unscheduled matters, council member Jim Grady announced that Jack McCarthy is resigning from planning commission because his is moving out of the city. And the council voted to withdraw the proposed transient occupancy (hotel) tax from the January ballot because of the financial uncertainty resulting from Yamagiwa. The discussion of the tax was early in the meeting and the final vote is at the end of the financial report.
- Oral Communications (Same as third video on Yamagiwa decision) [51 min] | Flash |
- City council reports [7 min] | Flash |
- Staff reports [1 min] | Flash |
- Consent calendar [1 min] | Flash |
- Lot merger and rezoning four nine lots at Magnolia and Second [17 min] | Flash | Docs |
- Annual financial report [31 min] | Flash | Docs |
Darin Boville
Thursday, Nov 29: Oral communications before the closed city council one day after the City Council receives the decision from the court. Because no other room is available, the meeting takes place in a small room in Adcock Center. Jim Grady is out of town, so the council plans no substantive discussion or action.
Darin Boville
Monday, Dec 3: Oral communications before the closed city council session four days after the City Council receives the decision from the court. Because no other room is available, the meeting again takes place in a small room in Adcock Center. Jim Grady has returned. At the end of the oral communications, the crowd coaxes some responses from the city council members.
Darin Boville
Tuesday, Dec 4: Oral communications at the regular council meeting five days after the city receives the decision from the court. The main Adcock meeting room is packed, but not quite standing room only.
Just as the biggest news since Devil’s Slide hit the Coastside, we faced the biggest technology crisis in the history of Coastsider.
The good news is that Coastsider’s back in business and working better than ever—and I’ve had a chance to spend some quality time with the Beachwood decision and attend two of the city’s three public meetings on the subject. We’re going to begin Coastsider’s coverage with videos of the public comment portion of the three meetings held by Half Moon Bay City Council in the wake of Beachwood. We don’t have a lot of video of the city council discussing the decision, because they’re still trying to choose among a wide range of unpalatable choices.
I plan to offer some observations about the public comment we’ve seen so far, but I’ll put that on hold for the moment. Right now, here are the videos, recorded and encoded by Darin Boville, for those of you who haven’t already seen them on Montara Fog.
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Rob Carey
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Rob Carey at Coastside Video has produced a video of Friday's Night of Lights. Click on the image to see the video.
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Darin Boville
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Wavecrest conversation: POST and HMB [8 min] Click to view the video in a new window | Quicktime | Flash |
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Shortly after the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) announced they were buying Wavecrest, we started taping a series of conversations with people involved with the site. We told everyone we weren’t interested in the past disputes and acrimony that were associated with the sites, and asked them to discuss the future of Wavecrest and what it meant to have this wonderful piece of wild landscape in the middle of the the city.
In this first installment, I talked to Audrey Rust and Walter Moore, President and Executive Vice President of POST; and Naomi Patridge and Marina Fraser, Mayor and member of the Half Moon Bay City Council. Darin Boville taped and edited the conversation.
- Proclamations, Presentations, Announcements [2 min] | Quicktime | Flash |
- Oral Communications [4 min] | Quicktime | Flash |
- City Council Reports [6 min] | Quicktime | Flash |
- Staff Reports [3 min] | Quicktime | Flash |
- Consent Calendar [2 min] | Quicktime | Flash |
- Application for Coastal Development Permit, Rzoning, Lot Merger of 9 lots into 4 at Magnolia St and Second [29 min] | Quicktime | Flash | Docs |
- Set Feb 5, 2008, as the date for a vote in increasing Transient Occupancy Tax from 10% to 12% [62 min] | Quicktime | Flash | Docs |
- Disposal of land donated to the city by Labuda Family Foundation [12 min] | Quicktime | Flash | Docs |
- Staff update on administrative order on 450 Wavecrest Road continued to a date to be set, but not before Jan 10, 2008. | Docs |
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Due to technical difficulties, the first 90 minutes of the meeting weren't taped, but the last 2 hours were. Click below for the agenda. [120 min] | Quicktime | Flash |
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