Comments by Ken King
July 19, 2006
The city attorney merely confirmed what Mr. Ferreira and I have said all along, that there are a number of ways the Settlement agreement can be modified or not implemented at all. As far as getting the council to okay Adam Lundgren spending billable hours likely to run hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to satisfy Mr. Steinberg's curiosity, I'd say, "Good luck!" There is, for example, the council's laundry list of priorities that the staff, which includes Lundgren, is supposed to be working on.…
July 09, 2006
Jim Larimer discounts the fact that the Coastal Commission imposed a raft of conditions on CCWD's El Granada pipeline project for environmental reasons, and that the local and county agencies have to comply with these conditions. The Coastal Commission's official Staff Report said that CCWD had failed to prove the necessity for their large pipe, but approved it subject to a long laundry list of special conditions. This had nothing to do with no-growthers or environmentalists, btw, just CCWD's inability…
July 08, 2006
I'm glad to see that Mr. Larimer has discovered Coastsider's blog just at a time when there is a discussion of who constitutes moderates and who the extremists are. Note that Mr. Larimer's language gives no quarter to legal processes or the people who must follow them. It's all very simple for Mr. Larimer. Because Kevin Lansing insists on following the law when making decisions, he is accused of being part of a political cabal trying to "thwart projects" which Larimer says are so beneficial that…
July 11, 2006
My conclusion about the prospects for SR 92 are based on the twin facts that little seems to occur in the scale of our lifetimes here on the Coastside, and that dollar$ already budgeted for improvements are inadequate for their purpose, let alone the real demographic challenge facing us down the road. (Matt's figures are conservative, if anything, because the census was purposely designed to undercount the lowest economic class. But that's another story.) I live my life as an optimist and don't usually…
July 10, 2006
Matt, your instincts resonate with most of the points of my June 17 post above. Starting with your Stone Pine observation, I can tell you as someone who served on the citizens' park committee that the Stone Pine residents would stand up in mass to fight the creation of Foothill through and around their homes. The developers at Cypress Cove likely back CCF's idea, but they are seriously mistaken if they think they can get the homeowners to buy into a plan that would increase the ambient noise and…
July 09, 2006
Mary Bordi, Don Bacon may not be a Director of CCF, but it's clear to anyone who reads the original letter and all of his subsequent posts that he, and not Charlie Gardner, is the author of the correspondence to the Coastal Commission. Is it important that Mr. Gardner signed his name to it? Not particularly, but I think it says a lot about Don Bacon's standing in CCF, does it not? Don Bacon and Jim Larimer, you need to put your collective heads together with your engineering and accounting friends…
June 29, 2006
Mr. Steinberg’s pumping the ethical standards of the engineering profession is harmless fun considering all of the engineers in the employment of HMB: one. I wonder if Jerry is even aware of the role Paul Nagengast plays in the city's Coastal Development Permit process, or if he has ever talked with the Paul to learn about it? Had he, he might have looked for a more productive use of his time than pursuing this particular nit. MODERATOR'S NOTE: Ken wrote this on Thursday, but it just got released…
June 28, 2006
Mr. Steinberg’s pumping the ethical standards of the engineering profession is harmless fun considering all of the engineers in the employment of HMB, one in total. You have to credit Mr. Steinberg for creatively playing out his hand, even though it’s a dismal one. I wonder if he is even aware of the role Paul Nagengast plays in the process of the Coastal Development Permit, or if he has ever talked with Paul about it? There is reason to believe he hasn't.
ken king
June 27, 2006
Bolsa Chica is about the impact of a court decision in underscoring existing law--ESHAs are not fungible, which is not what Don Bacon keeps saying. Instead of pointless speculation about what's possible behind the high school, why not cool it until the EIR is out? Then we can analyze that to death.
ken king
June 26, 2006
Don Bacon's interpretation of the Bolsa Chica court decision is the opposite of what the decision says. Contrary to what Mr. Bacon claims, the court found "neither residential development in the wetlands nor destruction of the pond (for the widening of Warner Road) are permitted." The court disallowed the developer from removing or mitigating habitat for economic purposes. The only thing that Mr. Bacon is right about is that Bolsa Chica does apply to Foothill, but not in a way he would like. ken…
June 26, 2006
Mr. Steinberg continues to joust with windmills. His lecture on ethical standards for engineers is irrelevant regarding the Settlement agreement: it doesn't apply. To see why, reread my June 14 post about why his complaint about the "gag" rule is a red herring. Steinberg recounting the reaction of some engineers he told his biased version of the Settlement agreement to in order to confirm his conceptions is laughable as evidence. CCF proponents are consistently tailoring the truth throughout this…
June 22, 2006
HMB has been unable to produce the so-called preliminary biological study for the old draft EIR, but the Coastal Commission staff recommended against Foothill anyway. Speculation is a waste of time since there is a new draft EIR due next month, a portion of which covers Foothill. Interesting conspiracy theory that the city ordered the expensive EIR to close the door that "was ajar" regarding realigning Foothill to avoid wetlands. With such an expectation, it's clear that you won't appreciate ANY…
June 21, 2006
This discussion has degenerated into a version of Sartre's No Exit, in which the participants continually reiterate what's been said already. To wit, Foothill is not a road or a highway, but a residential street. It won't pass the Bolsa Chica test because it doesn't help solve any problem, just agrivates existinng ones. Period. There is no way around the wetlands behind the highschool, just not enough room between the massive hillside and the riparian habitat. Jack Liebster announced last night that…
June 20, 2006
Don Bacon chooses a wise debate tactic in his losing cause, ignore the overwhelming evidence presented and look for a nit to pick. It's called shifting ground in fallacy chapters of logic texts. The grounds are the untenable cost of Foothill Lite, the fact (omitted above) that the major property owner in the area doesn't want to play, and the ESHA that not even the Coastal Commission can permit to be violated (see Bolsa Chica decision against the Coastal Commission). Mr. Bacon fails to refute my…
June 19, 2006
Don Bacon’s argument (May 11) that the Settlement agreement is “unprincipled” in requiring the Coastal Commission staff and the city’s planning staff to recommend approval of the Terrace signal implies that it is (my words)locked-in. Mike Ferreira’s discussion above about the “gag rule” is apt commentary. I accept Mr. Bacon’s ammendment that he does see it as possible to reverse. Nullifying the Settlement agreement puts the prior agreement into play with 126 approved houses. 40 are…
June 18, 2006
Mary Bordi apparently goes by hearsay. This is excerpted from my reply to Mr Gardner's request: "Having looked at CCF's site, I find issue with every argument for Foothill, so I wonder how you see my piece fitting into the format, as I'd want to rebut those points while making some others. This goes a little beyond your invitation, doesn't it? My home phone is 726 **** if you'd like to talk about this or anything related." Does that sound like I was unwilling because of the time it would take? His…
June 17, 2006
Having ignored all of the important criticisms of CCF's Foothill plan, Don Bacon still hopes that a popular vote on Coastsider may help salvage a doomed idea. Mr. Bacon has given up trying to persuade us but now demands we simply vote our preference without the prejudice of facts or logic. But despite his urghing, let's review some of the facts anyway. * Foothill/Bayview is a HMB city street, not a county or federal road. * It would be paid for exclusively by the developer(s), or a combination of…
June 14, 2006
Interesting letter from CCF, almost lawyerly in its dissembling tactic of questions. I’ll skip the concerns raised under 1 through 3 about the conditions under which wetlands may be violated, being confident Mr. Kern will address these authoritatively. My comments regard the remaining batch of questions under numbers 4 through 9. Like most people, my eyes tend to glaze over when viewing legal documents, so I may be missing something, but all of the concerns posed by the questions appear bogus rather…
June 20, 2006
Actually inspired by Aesop's animal fables rather than Jesus'parables, and definitely less illuminating than the latter. Sorry, Mel, but the slot's already reserved for a Coastside original. Maybe next time. Great idea for a third moral, Mary, the more the Maryier!
ken king
June 19, 2006
Sundown Farms was a large, industrial chicken ranch. Almost everything was mechanized, except the egg laying itself—they needed chickens for that. And there were some roosters for helping propagate more chickens. This, in fact, was one of the plumb jobs in this concern. One rooster in particular really liked the way Sundown Farms was run. His name was Tercel. He liked the long, neat rows of metal cages, and seeing everything happen on a timely basis. Meals were served individually and nobody had…
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