Comments by John Lynch
June 26, 2006
Petition Update Since Friday, June 23, in but three days, we've collected an additional 1050 signatures to bring our total to 2300. Great work everybody. Let's keep it rolling. We've averaged over 200 signatures per day. However, I have to beg. The most productive method of gathering signatures is by TABLING. We need people to sign up for two hour shifts at Albertson's, Rite Aid, HMB Coffee Co, Starbuck's, Round Table Pizza in the evening and Tres Amigo's. When we table we've been averaging a signature…
June 24, 2006
Stephanie
Please reread my post above
John Lynch
June 23, 2006
Petition Update...Letter to Trader Joe's Friday, June 23, 2006 Trader Joe’s P.O.Box 5049 Monrovia, CA 91017 Attention: Customer Relations There are many people in Half Moon Bay and the San Mateo County Coastside who earnestly want you to consider opening a new store in the soon to be closed Albertson’s market located at 150 San Mateo Road, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019. To that end a dedicated group of citizens is circulating petitions. In just seven days we have gathered more than 1250 signatures.…
June 17, 2006
According to the recent posts, Trader Joe's is growth inducing and the beginning of the ruination of our beloved coastside
Please explain to me why replacing a 30 plus years old Albertson's with the equivalent size, or smaller, Trader Joe's is going to ruin the coastside. There will be no net growth in grocery floor space.
How is Trader Joe's going to change our environment? What is the logic behind this thinking?
John L.
June 16, 2006
Linda Friday PM. I stopped by the store and in but one day they had twenty seven signatures from the PDF they down loaded from Coastsider. I gave her a clipboard and two more clipboards that she will drop off at the San Gregorio Country store and Duartes. Tomorrow and Sunday we'll be manning a table outside of Albertson's collecting signatures. Also, I dropped off eight clipboards at local HMB businesses today with many more to come. If anyone needs a clip board please e-mail me at
[email protected]…
June 15, 2006
Kevin In response to your post about Albertson's, my tabulation of the 58 comments posted on coastsider, some with more than one choice shows the majority are for a Trader Joe's over a movie house. 30 for Trader Joe's 9 for a movie theater. Based on this tabulation that is the reason I decided to go with a petition for Trader Joe's. Also the empty music rental place near Burger King does not have enough floor space for a Trader Joe's. John Lynch P.S. I'm waiting for people to sign up.
June 14, 2006
Brian
Thank you for signing on so quickly. However, We will need petitioners to sign on for shifts at stores and post offices if we are to the 5000 signed petitioners to have Trader Joe's take us seriously.
Hopefully people will contact me so we can set up a coordinated strategy and campaign. We can set up a meeting for discussion and to bring everyone on board.
We are looking for all coastside zip codes to be on board including San Gregorio and Pescadero.
John Lynch
July 21, 2006
Ray Olson
Please reread my post of July 11 as regards Hwy, 92
John Lynch
July 11, 2006
Matt wrote "If 92 is such a big problem why not just fix 92? make it 4 lanes or 6 or whatever and not slow down hwy1 even more?" "Does anyone know how to expand 92 and (sic) to approach San Mateo on this or even the state, as many people have said this is a State road." There is only one thing the BOS of the county has the option of doing---by a county wide initiative that they could propose to ALL of the voters of San Mateo County to expand Hwy. 92. Why? Measure A in 1986, a county wide citizens…
June 07, 2006
My take on why the parcel tax was defeated yesterday is different from most of the posters on this issue. I attended the first school board meeting when they first discussed the parcel tax and school busing within the same initiative. I affirmed my support but with a caveat. I suggested that they split the school needs and busing into two separate parcel tax initiatives. Why? For two reasons: • There will always be a percentage of the voters that will vote against even $1.00 increase in taxes.…
June 30, 2006
I am the organizer. As of today, we are at 3000 signatures. Please go to the article on "Sign the petition" here at Coastsider to find how how you can help.
John Lynch
June 13, 2006
I've been trying to start a petition. I have the petition form ready to go. I'm trying to sign up petition gatherers to petition at Albertsons, the drugs stores, leaving petitions at various stores but not have gotten the necessary support.
I bet, if we geared up, we could get 5000 signatures within three weeks,
Contact me at 650-726-9280 or
[email protected]
John Lynch
June 06, 2006
Hopefully we can replace Albertson's with a Trader Joe's.
ohn Lynch
May 09, 2006
Mike.
You are being most polite. At the end of your first paragraph, you state "Could it be politics." Of course they are playing politics. They know that they have less than "a snowballs chance in hell" for their vision being implemented.
John Lynch
May 05, 2006
I don't think it does us much good as adults to be focusing the blame on the wrong agencies. The State highways are the primary responsibility of the State government, as in State Highway Route #1 and State Highway Route #92. When we read in the headlines that the State's budgetary problems require "reprogramming" of billions of dollars of highway money that means there's a local effect. We shouldn't be forgetting that the Schwarzenegger administration pulled its share of the funding for Bay Area…
May 31, 2006
I well remember the 1983 slide as well as the 1995 slide. Information was adequate in 1983. However, Eric Rice, Half Moon Bay Review, did a good job of keeping us informed in 1995. Now, thank goodness, we have the Coastsider.com leading the way with new improved reporting techniques. The reporting by Barry Parr, comprehensive slide shows and streaming video by Darin Boville with voice over is in but one word--awesome. He tells it like it is while keeping coastsiders well informed and from getting…
March 26, 2006
A correction is in order. David Meir served on the Half Moon Bay Planning Commission for 19 years but never was a member of the Half Moon Bay City Council.
John Lynch
March 23, 2006
With all this brouhaha regarding the Planning Commission it was never my concern whether the number of commissioners be one, three, five, seven, nine, fifteen or any other that they might desire. My one and only concern was that the commissioners term need be, and must be, staggered from the council member who appointed the commissioner. We would be the only city out of 20 cities in San Mateo County to have concurrent terms and there are but two cities out of 60 in the California Coastal zone. There…
March 17, 2006
The 3-lane light at Rousseau Francais is not the optimum Caltrans design; a 5-lane light would be. We all knew that when we got fed up with fatalities a few years ago and demanded action from Caltrans. For financial and permitting reasons, however, it became clear that the only way to get quick action from Caltrans was to accept a 3-lane light. Fatalities are a bigger issue than convenience so we took the 3-lane light. Half Moon Bay has a 5-lane light in their funding submission to the County Transit…
March 16, 2006
I remember Eric Rice writing a long front page article in the early ninties quoting a Mr. Saint James, I believe from New England.
The gist of the story is that when a downtown starts selling glitzy stuff, becomes overrun with botiques and high end art studies that spells the beginning downfall of any downtown.
Eric even posted a scorecard as how to rate the future of any downtown. My score was 85% negative. It seems that it is coming true.
John Lynch
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