Comments by Leonard Woren
January 15, 2008
I lived in Southern California for 39 years, drove through the McClure Tunnel many hundreds of times, and never knew that that was the McClure Tunnel, although I had heard the name. That goes to the core of my argument that public facilities should be named after the location. I bet that only a tiny fraction of a percent of the people driving through the McClure Tunnel know its official name. Another reason for not naming public facilities after people is that more often than not it's controversial,…
January 07, 2008
No, they're both covered by my objection to naming any public facilities after people.
As to that stretch of SR 1, they didn't ask my opinion.
January 06, 2008
Here we go again. The concept of naming public facilities after people has been argued before:
https://coastsider.com/index.php/site/news/should_we_rename_hmb_airport_after_jessica_dubroff/
I am very much against naming public facilities after anyone for any reason. See the arguments pro and con in the above thread.
January 04, 2008
Yet people will continue to whine that it costs too much to underground the utilities. I think that amortized over a couple of decades, we'd all save money by undergrounding the utilities.
January 03, 2008
Government agencies are supposed to have ".gov" addresses, not ".org" and especially not ".com". GSD is now compliant.
December 27, 2007
Larimer does (unintentionally) provide amusement. Barry's editorial covers it pretty well so I won't rehash it. From a purely technical point of view, the only thing that makes sense for the Coastside would be a single city and no special districts. All the municipal services (sewer, water, fire protection, etc) should be city departments. However, the idea of a single city is a complete non-starter once you factor in the politics of it. For one thing, there are way too many people in the unincorporated…
December 18, 2007
There's so much in George Muteff's revisionist history that's incorrect that it would take a long time and a lot of space to counter, so I'll just mention some examples. 1. "And, of course, they hired the Meyers Nave legal firm to support them in their nefarious adventures." Nice try, but Meyers Nave was the City Attorney for a number of years before the environmentally-oriented City Council members were elected. They switched counsel by getting a different attorney from Meyers Nave. They didn't…
December 14, 2007
Frank, the comments regarding the County's foot-dragging on updating the HMB Airport Master Plan are here: https://coastsider.com/index.php/site/news/noise_abatement_violations_over_montara/ See comments dated 10/02 from Barbara and from me. I suspect that the County is waiting for the LCP Update to be approved by the Coastal Commission, because if they update the Airport Plan first they would be required to incorporate the latest FAA safety standards and then they would have to adjust (almost certainly…
December 07, 2007
Dana, I believe that swearing at it is the proper procedure for dealing with finicky equipment.
On the other hand, swearing at the web site while it was broken only made it worse.
November 27, 2007
Putting on my libertarian hat, I'd say that the surliness of both of those companies stems directly from the fact that they're government-created government-sanctioned government-enforced monopolies with only a charade of government oversight. There are only two possible ways to fix them: 1. Allow competition (my preference) 2. If you absolutely oppose #1, then the only other solution is that they have to be government agencies with a directly-elected board, so that if you're unhappy you can vote…
November 19, 2007
"Small jumbo jet"?
November 12, 2007
The most interesting part of this is that Doug won with the firefighter's support, only 4 years after they did everything they could to sully his reputation to get him off the Board. Go figure... Ken, I'm glad that you put "wise" in quotes. Sabotaging voting for the majority in order to facilitate voting for a very tiny minority doesn't make sense to me either. The old system that San Mateo County used was just fine for most of us. I'm sure that someone could have come up with a way to meet ADA for…
November 10, 2007
Regarding GSD's flat rate for residential, Nick deBeer asked "Did the voters vote for the flat rate charge?" I doubt it, but that's simply speculation because it's been that way for longer than I've lived here, and I haven't read all of the old board meeting minutes. GSD does charge non-residential customers based on water usage. (GSD uses a strength factor for non-residential customers, as Mr. Perkovic described above.) Personally, I'd like to revisit the residential flat rate, but in the 10 years…
November 10, 2007
Granada Sanitary District's Sewer Service Charge (SSC) for single family residential is currently $314/year -- flat rate, not based on usage. ($314/year = $26.17/month.) GSD's rate is lower than the average residential rate of the other 2 members of the Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside for a couple of reasons, the most notable of which is, as our General Manager said "GSD has a dream topology". It's [mostly] a bowl-shaped territory, and we all know what flows downhill. I've been told that one reason…
November 08, 2007
Terry, I've been out of town and only now saw your comment. I have nothing to add to Ken's response, unless you want me to say that you're trolling, and you wouldn't really want me to say that, now would you? Therefore I have to assume that you just accidentally overlooked my intro paragraph.
October 24, 2007
Dana asked "did San Francisco sign an ordinance outlawing styrofoam?" To quote Jonathan Lundell, "Google is your friend". I did a Google search on "San Francisco" styrofoam and got good results. Apparently the ban took effect on July 1, 2007. I didn't know that. It seems that S.F. isn't the first city to consider or do this -- in the results summary I see mention of Berkeley and Santa Monica. No surprises there... Maybe the HMB City Council could pretend for a day to care about the environment and…
October 03, 2007
I used to live near LAX, and the maintenance facilities weren't far from my condo. They were prohibited from doing engine "run ups" during certain hours. We were instructed to call the tower for noise complaints occurring off-hours. I once called at 1:30 am when they were doing a "run up" -- which is very loud -- and while it was happening the tower insisted there was nothing going on! (He could probably hear it though the phone from my end!) My recollection is that they were annoyed at being called…
October 03, 2007
I didn't know him anywhere near as well as many others here, but from my relatively few interactions with Cordell I have to say he was a really great guy, and this is sad news. (I wasn't close enough to know that he had health problems.)
October 02, 2007
I believe that the FAA comes out with new safety standards every 3 years (or maybe it's every 5 years?) Regardless, the County is not doing the HMB Airport Master Plan Update, which is now around 10 years overdue. Why? Because updating the Plan requires the County to incorporate the latest FAA safety standards, which will almost certainly result in an expansion of the "Airport Overlay" zone in Princeton. The AO restricts development and the County wants to allow as much development as possible before…
September 07, 2007
Think "lemonade". At least the more destructive inland bypass won't be built. And I don't treat cheering the tunnel as approval of the damage they're doing while building the oversized twin tunnels, but rather it's a cheer for the fact that they're actually starting!
What was the original completion date for the tunnel? 2004?
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