Comments by Carl May
May 03, 2007
What do the terms "liberal" and "conservative"--and, especially, political claims to and spin on those terms--have to do with understanding physical phenomena and adjusting activities based on that understanding?
Carl May
April 24, 2007
Lots of people confuse "climate" with "weather," which can lead to ridiculous comments like "There was a record low temperature today--so much for the global warming whackos."
Carl May
April 22, 2007
"Why is it that developers all seem to come from the same gene pool?"
Don't know, but because there are few exceptions, it becomes easier to and more legitimate to paint them all with the same brush in one's comments. The only caveat is to keep one's mind open for those exceptions.
Carl May
April 19, 2007
No question, matters of future climate change are probabilistic and based on (ever-more-refined) models. Also no question that Earth's surface, as a whole, is warming (though warming much more quickly in some regions than others) and that carbon dioxide and other significant greenhouse gas molecules partially contributed by artificial human activity are increasing in concentration in the atmosphere. When it comes to assessing risk, Americans are particularly dingbatty among the "educated" First World…
April 12, 2007
The fact that those who wish to make the midcoast worse through more overdevelopment and population growth are here to stay does not create a need to help them with infrastructure expansion. That only facilitates and accelerates their life-wrecking activities.
Carl May
April 06, 2007
Of course, reducing the number of cars and trucks during the commute crunch accomplishes an improvement in traffic flow without having to spend on destructive and grossly expensive road expansions that will eventually lead to more and worse traffic. Population growth in California has been and is stimulated by infrastructure expansion (inevitably with the promotion of growth by developers, the self-serving engagement in the growthg game by politicians and bureaucrats, and a mouth-breathing adherence…
April 03, 2007
Not the worst I have ever heard; but, as with all journalistic reports on the Devil's Slide/Twin Tunnels situation, there are between a half dozen and a dozen errors in fact, shading, and omission that affect the substance of the report. The reporter is almost certainly repeating these from the spin of people she interviewed and any background reading she did rather than generating the errors herself.
Carl May
March 30, 2007
Why does development, the increased development Gordon so obviously favors, need to go forward? Development in an already overdeveloped place is either corrupt, ignorant, or just plain stupid. Into which of those descriptions does Gordon fall?
Carl May
March 28, 2007
Note how the breakdown of "needs" doesn't begin to conform to the priorities and findings of previous surveys of the unincorporated communities and hundreds of hours of discussions and worked-out proposals from previous parks and recreation groups.
Like so many initiatives by the county for the midcoast, clearly a stacked effort to produce a predetermined result.
Carl May
March 28, 2007
A limited amount of modest commercial development to serve residents might take place in the current commercial areas of the several unincorporated communities. In most locations, this can be accomplished without extending the built footprint or resource footprint--through conversion of existing residences in commercial areas, for example. In a few instances, a commercial interest might buy and remove a residence or two elsewhere in the community to free up the resources for a new establishment in…
March 28, 2007
I don't expect the cornucopians to understand it, but because the midcoast is already grossly overpopulated and unsustainable in terms of now-diminished resources and non-degrading infrastructure, no new residential building, anywhere in the area, should be allowed without at least the removal of existing residential buildings to compensate. Smart shrinkage down to a comfortable, sustainable human population would suggest that even greater existing residential development should be removed to allow…
March 17, 2007
Saw this one in an earlier incarnation--just more evidence that bad ideas never die.
Carl May
March 15, 2007
To those coastsiders who consider downtown HMB important, stop worrying about Harbor Village. Like downtown HMB, but moreso, that mess aims to make money off of tourons and the Ocean Colony/Miramar crowd. Local dollars spent on necessities won't be going there. And stop worrying about Carmel. Downtown HMB has no chance to become anything similar. It does not have, nor has it ever had, the physical setting, architectural setting, and human history necessary to replicate that unique town. Finally,…
March 14, 2007
Not all, but most of the businesses catering to locals and to midcoasters to the north left downtown HMB a decade ago. The 80+ percent of locals who are not above the wealth gap, anyway. The downtown businesses moaning loudest now are the ones that displaced the businesses selling the stuff and services residents need for their daily lives. The changing of direction in downtown HMB, with all of the idiotic references to Carmel, has been a conscious and permitted process, approved and guided by the…
March 02, 2007
Again, the place where the current little slides are occurring will, in no way, be affected or bypassed by the twin tunnels. And the roadbed will last just fine through the light material coming down. This is probably a poor hillside for slides partially because of the eucalyptus forest, which does not hold the surface together as well as native vegetation. The fix is to stabilize the cut into the hillside that was made to create the roadbed, perhaps with a structure like a retaining wall. But that…
March 02, 2007
Sea Bowl is the bowling alley. Exactly right that the location of this small slide (in an area where small slides have occurred numerous times before and where there was traffic control again this day--3/2) south and a little bit uphill from Linda Mar is nowhere close to the major landslide on Devil's Slide and would not be affected by the underground freeway of the twin tunnels. It is, however, in an area where there will be ongoing pressure and fear-mongering by the bureaucrat-developer cabal to…
March 01, 2007
Raj Bechar, Raman's son (and a CUSD teacher) did make comments on the potential loss of the laundromat during his appearance before the HMB City Council on the matter of the coffee shop. I'm guessing the video is still available on Coastsider for anyone who wants to hear them.
Carl May
February 15, 2007
Of course the posturing politicians on the HMB City Council are not going to do anything in this instance or any other in which the inevitable outcomes of the city's growth, development, and zoning policies and regulations play out. Still the outpouring of love and support for Raman's shop at the council meeting was well worth the effort for those involved, a gift of appreciation Raman and Raj will never forget. So some growth-addled property company looked at Half Moon Bay, somehow did a mind-warp…
February 13, 2007
Yeah, outstanding to capture an in-focus "two-fer" like this.
Carl May
February 11, 2007
This is another of those truly stupid wastes of taxpayer money on a study of a question that has already been resloved multiple times--just not the way certain political and development interests wanted to see it resolved. Any mouth-breathing fool knows the commute-hour backups (and they are strictly limited to commute hours) in that stretch of road, one I drive several times almost every day, are not due to the number of lanes but, rather, to the intersections with traffic lights. This is conclusively…
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