Comments by Leonard Woren
September 06, 2007
You weren't serious?
;-)
September 04, 2007
Under California Law, don't the real estate agents and the seller have to disclose that no hookups to the public water system are available and therefore if the well fails, the property may be declared uninhabitable? If this disclosure wasn't done, isn't there a legal case against the above parties? Some years back, while he was still on the Midcoast Community Council, David Spiselman pointed across the street from his house in Montara where a test well was being drilled and he said to me "That's…
August 16, 2007
I would like to echo all the positive comments above without restating them, other than to say... amazing and fantastic!
July 31, 2007
It's decades-old news that removing painted crosswalks at uncontrolled intersections improves pedestrian safety. It should be intuitively obvious why this is: without the painted crosswalk lines, pedestrians are more likely to realize that they have to take responsibility themselves for their safety when crossing, and not just jump into traffic expecting cars to come to a screeching stop simply because that's the law in California. (Actually, that's an oversimplification -- pedestrians are not allowed…
July 27, 2007
CalTrans' feeble attempt to explain "why can't a bridge be built?" falls flat, contrary to Darin's implication: Before this video was published on Coastsider there were all sorts of demands by frustrated coastsiders, wondering why a bridge could not be built, I submit that we have 100-150 feet of engineering that proves that a bridge could have been and still could be built. Just drive the road past the repair and note how short the repair is. Now notice how -- outside of the very short slide zone…
July 14, 2007
Last night's 11 pm KNTV channel 11 news had a 2 min 20 sec story on the shopping center, focusing on Raman and his shop. That's a lot of time for any story on the 11 pm news. The intro set the theme: "What happens when local businesses are replaced by chain stores?" Lots of sound bites from locals, and a half-second glimpse of Cheri Parr with her camera.
July 03, 2007
Carl, do you know that there's a Libertarian listed in the choices? Hint: When he re-registered as a Republican he got himself elected to Congress. Just because he's registered and listed as R doesn't mean that that's what he really is. Some local Libertarians are going all-out in support of Ron Paul's campaign. Check his voting record -- he isn't a Demopublican.
June 28, 2007
Mirada Surf is somewhere around 45 acres, give or take. (Over the years I've heard various numbers ranging from 42 to 47 acres, with 45 being the most recent number tossed around.) Roughly double the land of the HMB future park site, for double the money -- cost per acre nearly identical. Much of the Mirada Surf East parcel is sensitive habitat leaving very little land which could be used for traditional park uses. While considering what to do, HMB needs to bifurcate the acquisition cost from the…
June 22, 2007
I sure don't understand HMB. The one plan that I saw (watching a City Council meeting on TV) for the park development appeared to be an attempt to cram everything that the City needs in parks into this one park space. Of course that's expensive. Since that park space comes nowhere near close to meeting the recommendations for acres/1000 residents figures that I've seen, it seems to me that they should be developing this park at a much more modest level (and cost!) and looking to provide other park…
June 19, 2007
I've never really understood why anyone pays any attention to newspaper editors' and publishers' "opinion" pieces. Just because they buy ink by the barrel doesn't make them any more qualified to comment on things.
The Review is particularly noteworthy in that, from my perspective, their editorials virtually always support the wrong POV.
June 13, 2007
Having one of the few (if not the only) active poll on Coastsider, I'd say that it's virtually impossible to cheat the Coastsider polling software. Why? Simple -- you must be logged in with a vetted id and the software keeps track of who, by login id, has voted. No cookies needed, no IP tracking needed, no cheating allowed.
(I am still asking El Granada residents to go vote in my poll, regarding DSL vs Comcast in El Granada: https://coastsider.com/index.php/townhall/viewthread/26/ )
June 12, 2007
Some in HMB have said that people outside the city should stay out of the park debate, but Joel McKinnon raises an interesting point. Kids from the whole Coastside go to the middle school in HMB and the high school in HMB, and it's useful for there to be a park there that they can go to after school. So it appears there is at least one valid reason for people outside of the city to participate in the park debate. Getting back to the original story topic, would it really kill anyone in City Hall to…
June 06, 2007
Joel, please note the sentence I wrote following the one that you quoted. To save you the trouble of scrolling up, here it is: "And I’m not necessarily referring to the City Council." The City Council is certainly going to listen better to the citizens because they have to worry about getting re-elected. You have misquoted me via selective editing.
June 05, 2007
While I disagree with Mike on some issues, I find it very grating how some people feel it necessary to continue to blame Mike for everything from the war in Iraq to global warming and they miss no opportunity to bash him, even when they have to do it as a non sequitur. Give it a rest. He's been off the council for a year and half. Anyway, weren't there 5 council members at the time? Why is the venom focused on only one of them? It's amazing (as in appalling) how the faction currently in power in…
May 29, 2007
I've been saying for quite some time that HMBFPD is subsidizing PMFPD, and Vince has now provided some numbers to support that statement. I had been under the impression that the subsidy was $200,000 per year, basically the amount of the negotiated "adjustment" a couple of years ago. Vince seems to be implying that the subsidy is much higher than that. I'm very concerned that the merger of Half Moon Bay Fire Protection District and Point Montara Fire Protection District to form the Coastside Fire…
May 16, 2007
Given the viciousness of local politics here, I think that it's perfectly reasonable to accept anonymous appeals. (When I first read the article, I thought the opposite, but I've reconsidered. The fact that I started out agreeing with the premise of the article shows how artfully this situation has been spun.) If the basis of an appeal has merit, why does it matter that it's anonymous? If you call the police and say someone has been shot, do they refuse to investigate unless you identify yourself?…
May 02, 2007
And this in probably the most liberal publication in the country.
Did anyone claim that all ostriches are conservative?
April 24, 2007
Gotta love citing the Cato Institute. I'm a Libertarian and Cato's agenda often annoys me. They can try to hide behind a facade of science, but their agenda is clearly political. On the issue of if the earth is warming, why am I cold now?, I think that "climate change" is now preferred to "global warming." "Global warming" considers only world-wide averages over the long term. The nature of the complex ecosystems involved means that patterns will and maybe already are changing such that some areas…
April 18, 2007
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on upon him not understanding it."
-- Upton Sinclair
April 15, 2007
Barry wrote And, Pacifica has been a lab for a lot of bad development practices that we can take lessons from here on the Coastside. On the other hand, Pacifica isn't zoned for a 3 story wall of hotels between the highway and the ocean as El Granada is. The County could take a lesson from Pacifica on waterfront zoning. Notice that with a few exceptions, you get a pretty good or excellent view of the ocean from nearly the whole length of SR 1 through Pacifica. Yet the County's stupid (that's with…
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