Comments by Barry Parr
March 18, 2009
I hate this.
Running an independent bookstore was a bad business idea before Amazon -- even before Barnes & Noble and Borders. Now, it's just nuts.
But it's not just any bookstore. Moon News was one of the best bookstores of its size in the Bay Area, or just about anywhere else for that matter. I don't know how they did it. I guess I should be grateful we had them as long as we did.
Thank you, Mark, for being crazy enough to try this in Half Moon Bay.
March 18, 2009
SAM is the Sewer Authority Midcoastside, and operates our sewer plant. They're located near Pilarcitos Creek at the end of Sewer Plant Road on this map: This area is shown as inundated on the map above. The finger reaching toward Hwy 92 in the map appears to follow the streambed, creating a sort of estuary on the map. Regarding the beaches, I don't see how they can survive much of an increase in sea level, even one far short of 1.4m. And I don't believe the report indicates a 1.4m change in our lifetimes.…
March 17, 2009
Say goodbye to our beautiful beaches.
We're going to be guarding our homes and highways with riprap, so the beach can't move inland in its historical fashion.
It's not the most important loss due to global warming, but it's going to leave an empty spot in all of us.
March 17, 2009
I'm not going to address the validity of either NOAA's or the Pacific Institute's forecast. I don't have the information or background to call that one.
However, I'm skeptical of a trend based on about 100 years of historical data. We're clearly off the map, with multiple non-linear relationships and positive feedback loops. Historical trends can contribute only so much to modeling the future under those circumstances.
March 15, 2009
BTW, Seton is one of the Coastside's gems. I've been there more than a couple of times with emergencies and have gotten fast, friendly quality care that I don't think I could have gotten at any other ER in the Bay Area.
March 14, 2009
It always seemed that the CFMC has been on the brink of implosion for years, but I hadn't heard much lately on the matter. It's easy to be complacent about their future when they always seem to be skirting disaster. These days, everybody who serves the underprivileged is facing more demand and lower revenue. It may be too late for CFMC, but it's not too late for the other institutions we care about and those that we know are the last line of defense for thousands of Coastsiders. If you feel bad about…
March 14, 2009
This is heartbreaking. It's a tremendous blow to the community, the center's employees, and to the folks who relied on the center for medical care.
I'd been there a few times and it always seemed from the waiting room that a large percentage of their patients were people who had no other way to get medical treatment.
March 12, 2009
We've had some terrific teachers at Cunha for our two kids that have gone there. Both had a great experience.
Cunha reminds me a lot of the public middle school I attended, in its limitations, the things it does well, and its social makeup.
March 10, 2009
Good advice. If only I'd known I couldn't pay it online, I wouldn't have gotten the ticket in the first place.
I agree the warning may not even be accurate any longer -- if it ever was. I also got it with IE 7, once I fired up Windows.
March 10, 2009
Not to mention the fact that only a nincompoop only designs for IE, or that Firefox is produced right here in the Bay Area.
February 11, 2009
Goebbels? Really? From the legendary Wikipedia: [Godwin's Law][1] (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies)[1] is an adage formulated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states: "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."[2][3] Godwin's Law is often cited in online discussions as a deterrent against the use of arguments in the reductio ad Hitlerum form. I'm glad I looked it up. I'd never heard the expression *reductio ad Hitlerum*…
February 09, 2009
That must be something like $200,000 in lost revenue to the city, depending on when the new Transient Occupancy Tax kicks in, and how much of the $2.3 million is for rooms vs other services.
Half Moon Bay budgeted [$4.2 million in Transient Occupancy Tax, and $2.2 million in sales tax revenue for 2008-09][1].
Applying this shortfall to other hotels and extrapolating it out to the end of 2009 leads to some scary numbers.
[1]: http://www.half-moon-bay.ca.us/Budget_in_Brief_2008-09.pdf
February 08, 2009
The entrance to the Pedro Point Headlands is here, across Hwy 1 from the entrance to the tunnel project. You have to park further to the west, and walk to the site. I don't think it's possible to enter on the Pacifica side without crossing private property.
Here's the Google Map. Use Streetview to get a good look at the entrance gate.
February 08, 2009
Deborah, if you get a chance, you would request details on what has been grown where and when. My perception is that the southern lot is used mostly to grow cover crops.
It would be good to know whether the leasing farmer or Big Wave paid for the filling and grading, and whether the revenue from the lease, or the crops, actually exceeded the cost of the work.
I don't know if the county is asking these questions, but someone should.
February 08, 2009
And this is just the portion that was reported as lobbying. This may not include the legal fees associated with the settlement and public relations surrounding AB1991.
February 08, 2009
The more I look at the crazy scope of this project, the more I suspect that the plan is to "split the difference" and wind up with a result that is still too big for this site.
February 08, 2009
Here are a couple photos from the filling and grading in June 2006. These should give you the scale of the operation that was apparently needed for the 2008 pumpkin crop. These are part of a large archives of photos that were taken at the time.
February 08, 2009
Darin's video of the Seal Cove bobcat is here:
February 05, 2009
Joel, you're either missing or ignoring my point:(1) the developers appear to not be operating in good faith, and (2) this opens them up to delays or cancellation of the project.
My point was that the county is not the last word here.
Why is it that when developers flout the law and their projects fail as a result, their supporters whine about the rule of law? We see it again and again. Meanwhile, developers who work within the law get stuff done.
February 05, 2009
I spoke to Code Enforcement at the time, and the county approved the filling and grading because it was permitted for *agriculture*. But, in the three years since all that filling and grading, as far as I can tell the only thing that has been grown there -- other than cover crops -- was a bunch of pumpkins last fall. Hardly an economically viable proposition. Joel may be right. Instead of calling the filling & grading "controversial", I should have called it "suspicious". The county should be looking…
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