Comments by Carl May
May 17, 2006
Why is realism branded "surreal"? Just because planning is bad for our already overpopulated and overdeveloped local coastside communities, why accept the stupidity and projections that dictate even more problems and damage? If wider roads were the answer--and they never have been long-term in California because they haven't been accompanied by a halt in growth--southern California and the freewayed greater Bay Area would be heaven. Bigger roads in urbanizing areas simply mean bigger traffic jams…
May 16, 2006
Wow, all the blind religious faith that roads must be widened and growth/development must occur--presumably as part of the natural progression of the universe? No one will ever accuse you desperate souls of understanding that sooner or later indefinite growth in any finite location will exceed what can be sustained. Look around you. This has already happened on the midcoast. Oops, I forgot my opening sentence--you are not able to look around you! Well, keep praying, and if you get your way, hope…
May 10, 2006
Still don't want to turn off the artificially-contrived (for the benefit of a relative few) growth spigot, do you folks? Good to see you babbling on about road games that can only lead to more-laned congestion and greater crises due to more extensive destruction of already-overdrawn local resources. Why good? Because umpteen laws and contentious layers of approval and funding go with your innumerate insanity, and I'll be dead before I have to suffer from the kind of foolishness encompassed in the…
May 17, 2006
Someone mentioned that a red-legged frog had been planted on the bypass (maybe the proposed bypass right-of-way) in '95. I'd love to have the reference or any other citation. All the environmental workup for the bypass was done in the 1980's, and red-legged frogs are not mentioned as one of the species of concern. so I know it couldn't be that. What I'm guessing is that some environmental whacko was prescient and planted a redlegged frog somewhere a year before the species was even listed in June…
May 10, 2006
Anyone checked a respectable dictionary definition of "restoration" lately?
Carl May
May 05, 2006
Another disturbing migration:
http://tinyurl.com/h64zt [The Onion]
And routes to other facts:
http://www.fairus.org
http://www.npg.org
http://www.capsweb.org
Carl May
July 14, 2006
Julie, The basic geology of Devil's slide has not changed since the extensive analyses of the mid-80's and mid-90's. That Caltrans continues to try to get people to believe this is a landslide unlike any other is a testimony to the naivete of people around here. My neighbor in Montara who originally got me involved with the slide, Bill Bechtel, was a geological engineer who tried to explain the simple mechanics of Devil's Slide to the public repeatedly for several decades. I'm not a geologist, but…
July 13, 2006
When all is said and done, it's a gullible, easily spun public with no desire to examine the actual roadbed geologic issues and investigate how such matters are dealt with elsewhere that allows Caltrans to get away with "murder" every time Devil's Slide slips a bit. Yes, do look at the pictures; this road has been driveable with traffic control while repairs go on since early May. The favorable news that the project was half complete and on schedule that Caltrans got in the media yesterday was disgusting.…
June 27, 2006
How can Devil's Slide be anything but "old news"? Caltrans spin won out over a gullible public once again, and they'll spend their emergency repair money without the inconvenience of pesky cars on the highway. The roadbed has been driveable since early in May. That's all you need to know. Everything else is just a bureaucratic and political game. So what if letting automobiles use the road (what a concept--roads for vehicles) would have delayed completion of the repair scheme a few weeks? The overwhelming…
March 21, 2006
Timed lights? Obviously. But they, too, eventually get overloaded. School busing? Obviously. But the CUSD board has acted with cavalier disregard for years on matters of traffic in the communities it covers. Some saw the elimination of most school busing as punishment for not passing poorly conceived parcel tax measures. A bikepath/trail paralleling Highway 1 would provide a safe alternate means of transportation for some locals some of the time. And, hey, the Coastal "Trail" is, in fact, built and…
March 20, 2006
What will there be at the Harbor Village's view-blocking, multi-story wall of development that would attract those of us from Moss Beach and Montara to shop there? And with the guaranteed greater traffic congestion in the vicinity of Capistrano and Highway 1? Before the lights at Frenchman's Creek and Coronado it was already better for people in MMB to drive to Linda Mar for real-world shopping that they cannot do in their towns. With the more recent lights, the only change is that more folks realize…
March 21, 2006
It's obvious Big Wave, as it is being presented, is being used as an emotional Trojan Horse to get around yearly limitations on number of new units and to shoehorn in an office park. First, it is just stupid to exempt affordable housing of any kind from yearly permit figures or design limitations. The midcoast is already overpopulated. Most of its governmental (including infrastructure) and community problems are those of an urbanizing area and tied directly to shifts in size and character that come…
March 07, 2006
Like John Lynch, I want to be for this tax as a member of the school district community. The Wavecrest stupidity for the middle school was my biggest reason for not wishing to trust the CUSD board with more money in past parcel tax elections. Because parcel taxes are regressive, I'm philosophically opposed to them. I'm also unhappy with the need for parcel taxes for schools just because the state's school funding system is screwed up and because schooling for the children of people in the U.S. illegally…
March 07, 2006
SamTrans has never done a particularly good job of servicing the midcoast, why should they start now? Route 17 has been a joke since its inception, leaving out most of Moss Beach and all of Montara but going several miles south of Half Moon Bay proper to serve a smaller population.
Carl May
December 07, 2005
The debate over the LCP revision for the unincorporated San Mateo county coastside is not between no-growth and pro-growth. It is moderately fast growth (1 percent) and the steamroller of steady coastal environmental damage that is part and parcel of that kind of growth versus runaway, virtually unlimited growth (current draft of LCP revision with supes suggestions that poorly mask a sellout to developers) and its mindless, willy-nilly slaughter of coastal features and values. Those who want a sustainable,…
October 27, 2005
My comments were also deleted. I suggest voting for nobody, since all of the candidates want to consolidate the district away in a merger with the Half Moon Bay district and, thus, do not want the job for which they would be elected: governing the Point Montara FPD.
Carl May
October 07, 2005
Barry et al.,
Please note that the Chronicle article began with a mention of an atmospheric afternoon featuring the Michael O'Neill Quintet plus Kenny Washington. Michael lives in Moss Beach and can be heard with other top-notch Bay Area jazz musicians several evenings each week at Cetrella.
Carl May
October 07, 2005
This overriding of scientific findings and governmental service of narrow economic interests is going on throughout the federal government, and not just against endangered species. This domination of politics over reality is what American voters wanted when they nominated the candidates for both major parties in 2004 and cast their votes in November. The blunt stupidity being exercised by government is the fault of all who encourage the kinds of politicians who have become standard in this country…
September 26, 2005
Amusing. Downtown HMB is what the property owners and most businesses wanted it to be. It had the kinds of stores people could use for their shopping needs before it set its cap to become a row of gift shops and boutiques and upscale places to eat. City and Chamber of Commerce leaders almost laughed when anyone complained that businesses were going under because of the higher rents or being sucked away by the peripheral shopping centers. There were the current kinds of businesses to replace them.…
September 26, 2005
Controlling infrastructure works for controlling growth in Bolinas--and has for many years.
Carl May
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