Comments by Carl May
August 06, 2009
All that is needed for a wetland is the presence of enough water to saturate the land for at least a portion of the year. Wetlands do not require depressions in the surface--they can occur on hillsides with an adequate water source. Memories are short. The drainage project for Beachwood, which disrupted Highway 1 for a number of days, was originally undertaken by the city to aid development of the property. Never should have been done with taxpayer dollars, but that has never stopped the government…
August 05, 2009
I'm still waiting for Muteff to answer Boyd's rather straightforward questions on the actual content of the article. Boyd even makes the effort to bring the focus back to the fundamentals after Muteff wanders off into his individual guesses and musings on personalities and abilities a couple of times, but to no avail. Probably a lost cause at this stage of what has become a non-discussion because some won't address the topic(s).
July 28, 2009
The state parks budget issue is getting far more attention than its relative importance in the budget cuts, which makes me believe it is simply part of a game top siphon off attention from larger money issues. This may also be part of the long-time right-wing push to monetize the parks with more user fees and even by selling off some park land or extracting resources (logging, mining, etc.) from some of the parks. The question of how the annual use figures are generated is...hmm...interesting. I…
July 03, 2009
I don't believe the hangup for most people is the need for a clinic. Given the pain the closure of the last one is causing many people who depended on it, it is pretty obvious something like that is of great value. And Sequoia has a good reputation, though I would wonder about their Catholic affiliation and the availability of a full array of reproductive services in light of that. The problem comes with the parcel tax solution to paying for a big chunk of it. Surely that is not the only possible…
July 02, 2009
"Under the proposal, which is still very tentative, two-thirds of voters from Montara to the Santa Cruz County line would have to approve both the annexation and a new parcel tax to fund the clinic or other projects the community would choose."
The presence of the Elephant Flight Training Center at the airport is no indication pigs will also be flying around here.
July 01, 2009
Very similar order of preferences as in past parks and rec surveys on the midcoast.
June 30, 2009
What about competitive proposals/bidding for projects--Real Goods, Sunpower, etc.? I have a problem with Chevron, with its corporate record, waltzing in alone.
June 23, 2009
Well, good luck with this round. We have been through this community participation thing on the subject of walking routes and trails in and between our communities a numkber of times before, including parts of two different county-led studies of local community desires on parks and recreation; several presentations by midcoast locals to the county trails committee to get coastside trails, especially for the midcoast, in the county trails plan; and a multi-year effort at the MCC's Parks and Rec Committee,…
June 23, 2009
Darin, You seem to know little about the older properties in our communities. There are pipes all over the place. In the lot of my former home on Acacia Street in Montara, I had a pipe (presumably wastewater, but who knew) coming up in the middle of the back yard that I never did bother to run down in the nine and a half years I lived there. Heck, in some parts of Montara there are old sidewalks under a foot or two of dirt from the days the subdivided property was being sold by the original land…
June 22, 2009
"Had he asked my opinion prior to his post,..."
And the reason to do this was...?
As Kevin Lansing points out, the assertions of politicians and their lawyers are all suspect in circumstances like this. That goes for the current ones on financial solvency, as well. The bankruptcy talk may or may not be back within a few years.
We in Montara and Moss Beach are so blessed to not be part of Half Moon Bay, even considering the county's continuing incompetence in governing our area.
June 22, 2009
Sorry to say, the evidence for a water and/or sewer connection to Moss Beach Park has not been available for years. What has been going on for years is the reasonable request for evidence of a prior hookup before a district with no additional water to give to new development makes a judicious exception. In fact, it was the recent above-mentioned televising of the sewer main that brought the first bit of any sort of prior physical connection into evidence. Nope, no paper records (the previous private…
June 22, 2009
So, Mr. Farbstein, the MWSD came up with evidence of the connection. Or did you miss that recent development? That shifts the thinking on the suitability of providing a water connection when we have no new connections available in the district under a moratorium and water shortage that has us playing catchup with past overdevelopment mistakes in the district. As for running the park by themselves, you may be interested to know that I was invited to be on the board of the little nonprofit shortly…
June 20, 2009
So, doing nothing but whining and kicking their feet and trying to use the bathroom issue as a "do it for the kiddies" political ploy to unseat MWSD directors, the overdevelopment, water-unconscious side of the local political divide was unable to bully a bathroom into being. Other people got the county to reverse its past neglect of the park in order to come up with funds and MWSD sought and found evidence of a past connection for the property. Seems pretty obvious who "got 'er done" to me.
June 11, 2009
With the county and Caltrans not liking much coastside input in past years and studies on the location and character of local alternative transportation paths and recreational trails, we now get outside consultants (not cheap) to see if they can come up with something more to Caltrans's and the county's liking than what locals on bicycle and foot know are obvious and feasible solutions. When I see government money spent on grants like this and on the oversized, usually paved, urban-style projects…
June 03, 2009
Given the massaging of information and the stock description phrases used by the real estate sales industry, it might be that some are not prepared for a straightforward, unembellished description of a business for sale. If someone has an independent streak and is between jobs or looking to change tracks in the discouraging times we are going through, they would have nothing to lose in checking out the numbers, location, and goodwill for this one.
May 30, 2009
Almost all of the hangups the county ran into were due to its failure to do serious carrying capacity assessments at the outset of the LCP revision process. It isn't like they were not urged to compile those figures. What they, especially Supes Gordon and Hill, did was to cobble together a revision that amounted to nothing better than political piecemealing to favor their pet development interests. The public hearings were a grabbag of topics set up to go where the county wanted to go rather than…
May 30, 2009
"I think the Governor is trying to punish the voters for hating his stupid ballot propositions." Of course. This is not the first time the Governator has threatened state parks in recent spending-conscious years. It is an attention-getting subject, but a very small one in the overall budget picture. Never forget who this guy and the major players behind him are and how they came into office. Arnold, himself, knows very little of California, the geographic place, and of the diverse people who populate…
May 18, 2009
Yee, our state senator for the whole midcoastside, is not a new legislator. Why he bothers with Half Moon Bay's mess after all the bad-mouthing he has received from people down there is beyond me. "The legislature without the public prompting should stop all this "'…wiggle room [that] is created with loose language in legislation, semantic manipulations, backroom horse trading, and convenient butt-covering 'forgetfulness.'" Yeah, like that is ever going to happen with the money interests and electorate…
May 18, 2009
You folks are underestimating the "flexibility" with which money in various programs and accounts is spent by the legislative and administrative branches of our state government. A lot of wiggle room is created with loose language in legislation, semantic manipulations, backroom horsetrading, and convenient butt-covering "forgetfulness." To get a good inkling of the kinds of things that go on, read as much as you can stand of the measures on tomorrow's ballot and the arguments. When objections crop…
May 13, 2009
Mr. Hyman, You seem to be losing it--contradicting yourself, asking empty questions over and over as if they are your mantra, referring to problems for the MWSD that may or may not exist, speculating on the cost and progress of a lawsuit without information on what is going on or even why the suit exists, demonstrating ignorance of the MWSD facilities at the airport while feigning knowledge of what the FAA's stance will be on those facilities, couching your comments in a real-estate perspective as…
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