Comments by Barry Parr
February 27, 2005
I just received this note from Lennie Roberts or the Committte for Green Foothills: This property, on Irish Ridge, had a long history of attempts to develop it. Michael Forde, the former owner, originally tried to subdivide the land into four parcels back in 1975, but was unsuccessful. Some 65 acres of redwoods and Douglas fir were logged in 1979. In 1992, Mr. Forde was granted a Coastal Development Permit to subdivide the property into two parcels, but never completed the subdivision. Acquisition…
February 24, 2005
Jan Gray, who can be seen selling a million-dollar house on the front page of this week's Review, and Judy Taylor.
February 16, 2005
MROSD expansion is a side-show in Half Moon Bay politics, compared to Wavecrest, freeway-widening, or CCWD's ballooning infrastructure. Most of HMB's population is pretty heavily suburbanized already.
February 10, 2005
I was told this by Holly Costa of the Corps of Engineers:
To answer Mr. LaGuardia's question: Yes, the Corps does consider community comments. All letters should be sent to:
Attn: Regulatory Branch
US Army Corps of Engineers
333 Market Street, 8th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
and please reference file number 29405S
February 08, 2005
I don't think we have enough information to say one way or the other.
February 08, 2005
The breeding ponds will be within the delineated wetlands on the Wavecrest site.
I have been waiting for the answer, and I just got it from the Corps. I've updated the story to reflect it.
February 14, 2005
I decided to focus on the people who are now on the board. With all due respect to Jonathan Lundell, folks who are neither on the board nor candidates any longer are of marginal interest.
I did look at Lundell's forms while I was in the county office and I don't remember seeing any contributions that seemed newsworthy.
January 25, 2005
A Pattern Language is one of the best books ever written about anything.
I never understood how houses and communities worked until I read that book. It literally changed the way I saw the world around me.
January 24, 2005
Another reader has suggested "Politics and the English Language", an essay in which George Orwell worked out a lot of his ideas about language, propanganda, and thought control that would later appear in 1984.
I've added an Orwell collection to the Review's wish list. No journalist can go wrong with a little Orwell, after all. But you can also get this essay from lots of places on the Web, such as this one:
http://eserver.org/langs/politics-english-language.txt
January 21, 2005
I've added it to the wish list, but, to be fair, the Review's problems have less to do with grammar than with style.
January 09, 2005
Everything you said supports the statement that we have a huge stake in the county government. And nothing refutes the statement that we have next to no influence.
I didn't say that we're not getting our share of county tax revenues. We may not be, but I didn't say it here. I've generally agreed with Will Rogers: I'm glad we don't get all the government we pay for.
January 08, 2005
I agree that the book could have benefitted from more attention to detail in copying the photos and that many are noticeably skewed because they were photographed at an angle. I think part of the problem stemmed from the fact the author was limited in his access to the photos at the historical society and by his lack of experience in graphic arts. I also wish it had an index. I was willing to overlook that because there is a lot of good stuff in the book that isn't available anywhere else. It's also…
September 26, 2005
It looks like the link has changed. The County Times moves their stories into a paid archive after they've been online for two weeks.
If you do a search on the site, there will be a form at the bottom of the page to search the paid archives. One article is $2.95
November 25, 2004
Of course, on the Coastside, Comcast doesn't even have to compete with broadcast.
November 10, 2004
Your point about the the relative coastside population of the two wards is a good one. Of course, by splitting off the southern part of the coast, they've isolated the troublemakers.
But 30% is a pretty big chunk if coastsiders could be expected to take more interest in MROSD than the rest of the ward.
August 27, 2005
I haven't seen any evidence that the Review collaborated in this. However, they did manage to delay exposing the plot until after the election.
August 27, 2005
The Review did reveal their identities. I suspect this question is a setup because one of them is up for reelection this year. You can see it here: http://hmbreview.com/articles/2004/11/10/news/local_news/story05.txt From the Review: The ad was purchased by CCWD Director Chris Mickelsen. He said last week that fellow water board director Jim Larimer and another man, whose name he couldn't remember, were responsible for the ad. "Cabrillo board President Jolanda Schreurs said the third man is Kirk…
October 20, 2004
Oops. I could have sworn I checked that link. It's now working.
October 15, 2004
The Midcoast mailing list is indispensible if you want to understand what's happening on the coast. To subscribe, send a message to
[email protected]
October 11, 2004
Both at the candidates forum at the high school and on the midcoast mailing list you said that a second middle school in El Granada would increase the traffic on Hwy 1.
I don't see how that is possible.
Can you point to an analysis that demonstrates a second school in EG would generate more traffic on Hwy 1 than "one middle school to rule them all" located in HMB?
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