Comments by Frank Long
February 21, 2010
I noticed from the helicopter feeds that the previous tide seemed to have left an obvious splash line about six feet or so at the base of the cliff face. Wouldn't that lead someone to suspect that it might happen again on the next high tide?
November 16, 2009
Rather than re-engineer the whole thing, has anyone thought of just pulling up breakwater in the westernmost and easternmost corners and putting in large tandem culverts at each end. The angling of the culverts could be parallel, or non-parallel, with the latter tending to deflect incoming and exiting water over a wider range. It would merely allow for water to enter and exit the harbor more efficiently, considering the damage that has already been created by the erection of the breakwater. I had…
November 07, 2009
I guess it's how we see the world, Joel. Some people look outside and see the sun shining, put up their flag, figure everything is copacetic and then sleep tight at night in their jammies, while other people seem to look at larger issues. Personally, I never could understand the thinking behind the Tsunami Evacuation Routes having cars potentially stacked up along Route 1, not unlike sitting in three miles of backed up traffic trying to get to HMB at 7:30 in the morning, while the Big One rolls over…
November 07, 2009
Well, like I said, sometimes people are so afraid of trying something new that they'll continue to abuse themselves by keeping with what they know. All the same, it would be interesting to understand why people are not showing up to vote. Have things gotten to the point where they've become so disenfranchised, even in a small city like HMB, that they figure their vote doesn't count, so why bother? As with the Bloomberg election in NYC, it seems that money does all the talking, irrespective of common…
November 06, 2009
Many years ago, my dad had a suggestion box in his dealership. He wasn't big on communications, anyway, but this was an attempt on his part. But things had gotten so far out of whack that all he was getting for suggestions were those for getting "more intimate" with himself. His answer to this problem was to rip the box off the wall. Rather than view the the answers he did get as a sign of how his strategy wasn't working, he chose only to see the outcome through some preconceived notion of what he…
November 06, 2009
Joel, making the statement that "voters expressed a clear repudiation of League for Coastside Protection policies", hardly reflects the politics or the peoples feelings about the Coastside. Look what just happened in New York City, and worse, why. Michael Bloomberg had to throw in close to $100,000,000 to defeat his opponent and only won by the slimmest margin, and that was only after he had "massaged" many non-profits with a significant number of "donations", one of them alone being as high as $600,000.…
November 04, 2009
Unfortunately, Lee, getting out of Afghanistan was yet one more weakly veiled promise, not part of a realistic agenda .... and I voted for Obama, hoping as everyone else had, that CHANGE now had some chance. It's interesting note that even the leftist alternative news sources, who supported Obama, have now turned against him for his failure to deliver, and that's interesting. He's now getting slammed from both the left AND the right, but not through the mainstream, corporate owned, spoon feeding,…
November 04, 2009
Well, it just goes to show you that the headache won't go away until one stops banging their head on the wall. I hope HMB is well stocked with band-aids.
August 24, 2009
Ellen, you're not the only one. Having just moved back to Rhode Island, the response I got from Ms. Schoenmann seemed to imply that they made a hard and fast rule with FedEx and, well, what's my problem? The problem was that I had no one to send the records to during FedEx daily hours of operation. Apparently I am expected to just sit and wait for two days for the driver to show up so I can give him my signature. So, at this point, I'm in the middle of a four part volley with Ms. Schoemann. She keeps…
July 31, 2009
Many good points here,but I still have to say that the vast majority of residents I have spoken with still say they would support downtown if it had a format that was more in keeping with what they had moved here to attain, and I truly wish that the efforts of the DBA (formerly DMA)and those of the Chamber were able to envision a picture larger than their microspopic one where a select number of these elitest social miscreants peer down from their ivory towers, wondering why the local peasants aren't…
June 04, 2009
Well. now we're getting to the crux of the matter. This is less about the economy and more about a group of business leaders with myopia. As I have stated many times in different pieces I have contributed, Downtown's worst enemy is its business leaders. In addition, it's footprint on the map doesn't give much for planners to expand upon with Santa Cruz having a broader area between the hills and ocean and Davenport hardly any. It really isn't anyone's fault that no one had the foresight to see how…
June 03, 2009
That HE is me, and my successes have been the many people I have been able to help out within a venue such as this. I have made many friends in the process. In case anyone hasn't been paying attention, we are still in a steep recession, if not on the verge of a depression. I stated my letter the way I did, not to oversell it's potential in this difficult time to some starry-eyed health food groupie, but to hopefully find some way to keep that facility being able to service the community while having…
December 19, 2007
I found this interesting site, which appears to have some seemingly contradictory information. More grist for the mill. http://ceres.ca.gov/planning/pzd/1998/subd_4_5.html
December 16, 2007
I kinda like the idea of a paintball gun, myself. I think the sound of a harmless "THUNK" on the underside sends a nice message, but beside the paint probably not sticking to the finished surfaces of the aircraft, they'd probably call in Homeland Security and 40 other doughnut chomping agencies and put the Coastside under a terrorist alert.
December 14, 2007
Is there any particular day or time that is worse, like Sunday afternoons, perhaps? I'd like to see this for myself. I did my flying in Korea and the East Coast and have never flown here in Half Moon Bay, but here's what I've got on the topic. Maybe someone more familiar can shed some light as to why pilots find it necessary to fly so low. Here's the county's website for the Half Moon Bay Airport. http://www.co.sanmateo.ca.us/smc/department/dpw/home/0,,5562541_5562589_10266848,00.html The available…
December 14, 2007
Well, two things come to my mind, anyway; either the County is just doing the typical administrative foot dragging ........ OR, as I thought after reading Babbara's piece, might there be some who are intentionally at work to keep the airport's operating plan from being brought up to date ........ like, for developmental reasons? In response to "living next to an airport and complaining about the noise", I doubt that those people who had moved into that area around the airport would have had any reason…
December 13, 2007
I believe it was Barb Mauz who, several months ago, had given us a great explanation about the County's reluctance to upgrade the airport operating plan in order to accommodate a higher level of build-out here on the coast before they got too many complaints and had to actually do something about it. That's what I recall anyway.
December 09, 2007
..... and as a follow up to Jackson Robertson's comment, you'd think at least SOMEONE would have been notified since the backwash of a plane that size could have easily disrupted the airspace of the many small aircraft that normally frequent the HMB airport. I mean how would it look if you were coming down the coast to do a touch-n-go at the HMB airport with your Cessna at 60 mph and from out of nowhere, this 747 creeps up behind you at no less than 200 mph? Planes that size, like large ships, should…
December 01, 2007
It's a mess, for sure, and one I'm still trying get a grasp of. What I don't understand is that after the first map expired in 1990 and the City issued its vesting tentative map, it's my understanding that the Coastal Commission was still in control of the permitting process, such that by 1993, a full three years before the city took over that responsibility, Yamagiwa should have had no realistic expectations that any development would take place, unless she was counting on greasing the project through…
November 30, 2007
I became involved in this issue back in New England, when day visitors would come onto a members-only beach. As a board director for one of those private facilities, such as the one mentioned in the Stinson Beach article, it was incredibly frustrating. Since security guards prohibited them from accessing our facility itself, for a number of reasons, including individual unit security, these day visitors would then defecate in the sand dunes, almost expecting us to provide them with their own rest…
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