Comments by Carl May
April 21, 2008
"And I’d be willing to give them a huge discount on my commission should they list their properties with me. You see, not all pro-grow people are evil and greedy."
Of course they are not. One would not want to think altruistic realtors in HMB would try to make an opportunistic buck selling off the city's property assets.
Maybe the discount real estate sales office in Montara could be consulted on how to structure a real savings on sales commissions?
Carl May
April 20, 2008
Always speculative to count a silent majority before it has been heard from. When the citizens of HMB recognize how they were prematurely sold out, how they might be taxed to pay for the sellout, and how the settlement attempts to abandon major categtories of environmental protections for the city and load on more effects of unmanageable overpopulation, many of them may well have feelings very different from the vocal, developer-friendly, environment-disdaining, "property rights" minority. The above…
April 20, 2008
Leonard: A bunch of messages above I wrote: "Essentially, all uses must have been stripped from a property for a true takings to have taken place. Yet the City of HMB eventually allowed for 19 dwellings on the property in question, conforming to the presence of the 'wetlands' as it did so." That was based on the same very well known Supreme Court decision that you refer to. Was this argued in HMB's appearance before Judge Walker? Amazing legal incompetence if it was not brought up. And amazing ignorance…
April 18, 2008
AB1991 was a huge mistake. Suddenly the settlement became the problem of all Californians, as the city got Mullin to carry foul water for it in the state legislature. People who previously did not give a damn about how HMB handled its problem suddenly did because their ox was now being gored. One can only guess at the reasons something so stupid is being tried. Ignorance of the many elsewhere in California who would be drawn in? Inherent disdain for coastal regulations in general? Arrogance, thinking…
April 17, 2008
Francis, Don't be disuaded by the self-interested spinners who refuse to take off the feedbag and admit how HMB has blundered in a manner that will have ramifications up and down the state. Do you live in Mendocino County? Doesn't matter, but if you do, there are those of us who realize some of what your supervisors inland in Ukiah have done to try to weaken the Coastal Act over the years. There is reason for concern no matter where private attacks on the public interest are launched. Unfortunately,…
April 15, 2008
Yup. AB 1991 would go into the developer's primer on how to get around Coastal Act regulations--where it would join past such circumventions. People like Wan on the Coastal Commission clearly understand this. One is left to wonder if this law firm has any experience at all with California coastal controversies or if they just used a boilerplate snow job in the message trying to justify the naive required legislation. Love the justification for Glencree: "Regarding the inclusion of the 12-acre Glencree…
April 14, 2008
Pacifica opening? Remember, some of us shop up there, and last year's location at Rockaway was convenient.
April 14, 2008
Common sense would suggest a settlement that did not demand exemptions from a number of applicable laws. Do the city council members of Half Moon Bay imagine they are somehow separate from the rest of the state? As Wan said, it is a terrible precedent. Previous legal erosion of this sort--a lessening of Coastal Act regulations on one property being used to justify the same kind of act-busting activities on other properties--is one of the reasons the Coastal Act has become so feeble. Comments displaying…
April 09, 2008
"Which of the folks who have lived here since before 1984 think that there were no wetlands on the Beachwood property until after the city constructed a drainage project for the Terrace development?" Dennis, This is exactly what has some of us giggling in the background--gotta keep it in the background because the potential consequences are real and serious for more recently arrived people who had no part in creating the problem. Bottom line: The property was DRAINED for development in those heady…
April 02, 2008
"I’m a long-time conservative Republican and I’m deeply dismayed by the contempt that the California Republican Party holds for environmental laws and the Coastal Commission in particular. They fail to recognize that others like me can find fiscally and socially conservatives Democrats to support, but nary an environmentally conservative Republican." Pete McCloskey said something similar recently when he helped a Democratic candidate for the House and then announced he was going to…
April 02, 2008
"Even though the Godmother. Dolores Mullins, died in the mid-nineties her sphere of influence is still with us. Why?
"Assemblyman Gene Mullin, sponsor of AB 1991, is her godson."
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John Lynch
And, John, do you recall who was selected by her gang to replace her on the HMB City Council?
Six degrees? We don't need no stinking six degrees to make connections.
Carl May
April 01, 2008
With Migden's personal problems already working against her and Yee stumbling on this environmental sell-out, it could get more interesting if Nation or a conservationist Republican in the mold of Mel Lane can spin it into a campaign issue.
April 01, 2008
"Yee and Mullin are the real bad guys here. The local polticos who agreed to this ripoff settlement are just clueless. Yee and Mullin know very well what they are doing." Got to disagree, Kevin. "Saving the city" and sliding all this in on greased skids is a big win for the pro-development HMB City Council. And you know better than I the chilling effect this will have on trying to uphold growth limitations, the HMB LCP, and the Coastal Act on other properties in the city. It's a classic Old Guard…
March 28, 2008
Yeah, right, so that is one reasson why I posted Mauz's appeal letter. It is obviously to the point and specific as to the violations alleged. So who would you have as this great arbiter of appeals that would conform to the wishes of developers? By the way, Greg, my academic training is as a biologist. Degree in that from a reputable university. Post-degree field research. Worked for one of the top few recognized population biologists dealing with human populations. Almost four decades of working…
March 28, 2008
Greg's lamented well project, PLN2005-00376: http://www.co.sanmateo.ca.us/tm_bin/tmw_cmd.pl?tmw_cmd=StatusViewCase&shl_caseno=PLN2005-00376 Mauz's letter of appeal: From: "Nature Watch" To:
[email protected] CC:
[email protected],
[email protected] Subject: My Letter re: PLN 2005-00376 (Zoning Hrg. Officer's Hrg.)/Barbara Mauz Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:07:00 +0000 June 7, 2007 - Via E-Mail - Zoning Hearing Officer San Mateo County Planning & Building County Government Center 455 County…
March 28, 2008
June, My argument is not against the Internet. But there is an audience beyond the Internet for television, a large audience that uses both the Internet and television, and there are kinds of material that do better on TV than through the Internet or in print. So it's not an either-or thing in my opinion. It may not appeal to you as an activity, but I'd love to see some of your coastside stories in a visual form as an ongoing series of short, well-produced documentaries. Whether or not you like his…
March 28, 2008
“This is a warning shot from the governor’s office to all of his appointees: Do what I say, no matter how stupid it is,†said Joel Reynolds, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Los Angeles. “And I know of no project more destructive to the California coast than this toll road project.†Mr. Reynolds must be speaking of the moment. Some would have the California Coastal Trail be, in essence, a one-lane paved road for almost its entire 1100+-mile…
March 28, 2008
"As for Lansing’s comment, and just for the sake of conversation, who put Barbara up to filing the appeal, and who was the Staffer that filed the pre-signed appeal, which I have a copy of. I have the answer to both of those questions, need I go further???" Greg gets the horse-laugh of the week! As if anyone ever needed to put Barbara Mauz up to anything. The "property rights" crowd likes to operate as if no one knows of the repeated defeats of their approaches to objecting to environmental…
March 28, 2008
Darin, I appreciate that you have a fire in your belly for this sort of thing. The punctuated history of dissatisfaction by some with various aspects of MCTV goes back many years before your arrival on the coastside. This is not to say your review of recent events is not illuminating and well worth reading. But from outside programming to coverage of local government to access to MCTV by content producers, some citizens have long had issues. And we have had issues with the provision of cable in general.…
March 27, 2008
The problem with the big Internet "sharing" sites is that they are egalitarian. That makes for impossible "programming" for the general public because one must slog endlessly through amateurish junk to discover a few good pieces. Some like the prospecting. Most of us are quickly turned off. So, other than a few unusual ones that catch on and are widely publicized, most video pieces posted on YouTube are too poorly done to be of interest or are intended for a circle of friends. The same can be said…
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