Comments by Leonard Woren
April 07, 2006
I hope you guys have arranged with CalTrans to get video coverage of the blasting. From a safe distance, of course.
April 04, 2006
Here we go again... (Matt Berman wrote "... the complete silence—none of that unpleasant noise caused by construction equipment that might, you know, be fixing it.") While that's funny as written, I gotta say it's deja vu, as in definition 2 at http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/deja%20vu -- "something overly or unpleasantly familiar." In an interview shown on the 11pm news, someone from CalTrans said that "due to how wet it is, they didn't know when they would be able to start working on it." In…
March 23, 2006
I *can* back up my statements. I choose not to, beyond my "based on personal knowledge" statement. There are reasons why I am not disclosing the specifics that I know. Those of you who automatically take the other side will choose to attack me for that. So be it.
March 23, 2006
Based on some personal knowledge, I believe that Barry's "another reasonable interpretation" above is correct. It probably went like this: Bonano received certain news which necessitates his returning soon to his home area. He checked around for someone to take his place, tentatively found a replacement, wrote his memo, and then delayed his resignation announcement so that it didn't distract from the important discussion of his memo.
March 17, 2006
Another part of this that the powers-that-be in Half Moon Bay can't seem to understand is that *every* traffic signal they install on SR 1 north of SR 92 causes more lost business for HMB. The signal at Frenchman's Creek is a disaster; even a councilmember who strongly supported it admitted publicly that it's a disaster. Why? Because it was done without adding lanes. And I'm not supporting adding lanes, I'm opposing adding signals. We simply do not need any signals on SR 1 -- for all the problems…
March 17, 2006
Due to the Byzantine wiring of El Granada, there are some small areas in El Granada which suffer many more outages and much longer outages than the rest of El Granada. It can be pretty bad on those blocks (I happen to live on one), although apparently this winter it's worse in some part of Moss Beach. However, a few weeks ago I couldn't even count how many power flickers there were one night. Each one of them causes an "oh, no, the power's out AGAIN" groan. As I wrote on the Midcoast-L mailing list…
March 07, 2006
In the past, CUSD stated that they're "in the business of education, not transportation." I still want to know: how can kids be educated if they can't get to school? For some students in this district, it's much more serious than simply inconvenience for their parents. I can't even guess how some of the students are getting to school now. I agree that including a guarantee that transportation would be restored likely would have made it a slam dunk. Perhaps people should consider carefully the last…
March 07, 2006
DCMA is incontrovertible proof that we have the best government that money can buy, and MPAA has a lot of money and can buy a lot of government with it. (Of course, if you look at the fact that most or all county boards of supervisors are bought and paid for by the building trades industry, my comment applies equally well there. Whether this is now the case in HMB is left as an exercise to the reader.) Regarding Dianne being the author of DCMA... Democratic electeds once upon a time represented the…
March 07, 2006
Taking my previous thought a half step further, what if I *loan* a personal copy to the public library for checkout? As long as it's made clear that it's my personal copy and I want it back eventually (such that it's not a transfer of ownership), and as long as I'm not charging for that loan, and the library isn't charging for lending it, I'd like to see MCTV stop that. If I bought a rare book which happened to still be under copyright protection, couldn't I loan it to the library for public lending?…
March 06, 2006
I suspect the real reason is that MCTV charges a lot for making copies of their tapes and they don't want to lose the possible revenue if people can get the recording without paying MCTV a copying charge.
Can they stop someone from loaning their personal copy recorded from the normal playback? My guess is that they can't.
March 09, 2006
Can't everyone see that the bitter divisiveness is caused by the current majority at any given time taking revenge for being ignored when they were the minority, and steamrollering over the current minority? I think (and I hope) that after HMB voters see the damage that two years of the current regime can do to the city, that they'll wake up and flip things over again. The only problem is that it takes 10 years to undo that two years worth of damage. And some things can't be undone, like the disgusting…
February 22, 2006
While watching it on MCTV, somehow I missed the explanation of what happened to the previously-announced agreement regarding planning commission appointments? Fundamentally implicit in that agreement is that each council member would be able to appoint whomever they wanted. Bonnie reneged on that deal by voting against Jim Grady's nomination.
February 14, 2006
I have so many power flickers here in northwest El Granada that I just don't remember whether it flickered here or not that night. (It didn't go out.) I will be setting up an electronic version of a chart recorder to track the line voltage. Maybe I'll cook up some way to put it up on a web page. But the real reason for this comment is regarding a line in the linked-to article on cbs5.com: "The outage flooded local police and fire departments with calls from concerned residents". Why do people call…
February 14, 2006
I don't know how to do it, but somehow we need to get the major media who have created the problem in the first place to also report on how bad the congestion/parking is and the environmental damage caused by a huge excess of visitors. I.e., discourage people from attending in person. Personally, I looked out my window at how my street (east of SR 1 near Clipper Ridge) was all parked up, and decided that even though I could walk there from my house, I wasn't going to bother due to the crowds.
December 27, 2005
"Smart growth" is an oxymoron. Just out of curiosity, is there any location within the city limits of Half Moon Bay where a park could be located without some neighbors objecting? I'm not saying that the location near Cypress Cove is good or bad, but I'd really like to know where such a park should go in HMB. Of course, if there were more and sufficient parks, no one park location would be such an issue. How much park land did the City acquire during Naomi's previous 16 years on the Council? For…
December 25, 2005
As I pointed out at the last Council meeting, apparently to deaf ears, a razor-thin margin that changes the balance of power on the Council is NOT a "mandate" for a sea change. While some course adjustment may be justifiable, a U-turn is not. Those who continue to say "the people have spoken" are reading more into the election outcome than is appropriate. To the people in the Terrace and Kehoe subdivisions who tipped the election because they're blaming Mike for their problems, well, be careful what…
November 29, 2005
Barbara commented regarding the County's Sensitive Habitats Map. We did in fact update it in a manner close to what she suggests. But the County is apparently shelving the map update for some reason. I guess they didn't like the fact that a lot of sensitive habitats got added to the map, which as Barbara states, is pretty much "blank" now.
November 27, 2005
Lorraine's comment reminded me of something I forgot to include in my earlier comment: At one of the County Planning Commission hearings on the LCP update, one Commissioner, in arguing for a lower growth rate cap, said "The Coastside is headed for a train wreck and I don't see any reason to speed towards it." As to Lorraine's question of what can be done, one thing to do is that EVERYONE who is concerned about this needs to send email to or make phone calls to or make appointments with and speak…
November 26, 2005
When you read through and think about the draft recommendations, one thing becomes crystal clear: the main priority is maximizing the number of housing units. The next priority is facilitating other development. What I don't see in the actual proposed changes is anything that improves environmental protection, and the only thing that I see which would improve visitor access is 4-laning of SR 1, which would completely destroy the semi-rural ambience, and may not happen in our lifetimes due to lack…
November 20, 2005
"Remade"??? Huh? What does that mean? That concerns me. Remember the controversy over "pregnant chad". This could undermine my very high confidence factor in the accuracy and integrity of SMC Elections department.
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