Comments by Ken King
October 27, 2006
Brian Ginna reads like a witch-hunting redbaiter: Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the LCP? Who hired him for the thought police? Counting Barry's words and suggesting that Mrs. Fisher owes payment in kind, while failing to note Barry's wordcount is surpassed by the critical commentary from Ginna and Bev France makes Ginna's suggestion ludicrous. The sports supporters in the district won't vote for Pam Fisher, that appears to be a given. To say that her past work of more than 30 years…
October 19, 2006
Darin and Barry, by breaking the council meeting into viewable segments, you've created an invaluable resource for the community. This is a Landmark Event--Bravo! I almost never miss a meeting, but now I can eliminate "almost" from that phrase. And often I've wished I could review some discussion again, and now that is possible. This will prove useful in the future for many reasons. Thank you both very much.
October 14, 2006
Thanks for giving the link to Mr. Bacon's screed, Barry, although that seems to belie your plan to censor the voices of your critics. I'd recommend to Bacon and friends an immersion in postmodernism's conjecture (and evidence) that objectivity is impossible to achieve--it remains, at best, an archetype, a flickering shadow on the wall. Humility is a desirable virtue in the face of this problem, but that's exactly what is lacking in the tactics and approach of those wanting to reengineer Coastsider's…
October 07, 2006
Mr. Gossett, Orwellian futurespeak is the ability to re-engineer words and the truth to serve an opposing purpose. You've ignored the winks and nods by the city staff and council to mask activities that should be carried out through legal permits if they could have been obtained. Here the practice has devolved to doing the activity first and then saying someone (I can't say who!) okayed it while being backed up by the council that this is a sound policy. I don't know about you, but this strikes me…
October 05, 2006
Terry Gossett wrote yesterday (10/04), "IF someone has a local issue, why not start with a local solution? or a local authority? As you say it’s the job of the county or city to enforce the codes.I am all for law enforcement (for individuals as Well as the government), but in local issues I believe that before enforcement is called in locals can work out many property issues through discussions and cooperation...What happened to that step?" Reasonable people would likely agree with this view, but…
September 29, 2006
Buzz buzz -- two Farbstein posts and two red herrings. This is like following Alice through Wonderland.
September 27, 2006
Just back from camping near Shasta where I had to get used to the flies and gnats in order to enjoy the scene, not unlike being here as it turns out. Mr. Farbstein is like one of those pesky gnats, irritating, but not too troublesome. Why irritating? Because he likes to shoot from the hip. Why not troublesome? Because he gets things wrong. This time he at least shows how he arrived at his conclusion that he says "corrects" me about McClung running as an environmentalist. He went to her website.(He…
September 22, 2006
Aside from Brian Ginna's surly tone, I'd not dispute a lot of his points because we at LCP asked ourselves similar questions recently. Which is to say that changes are coming because we see the need to improve. By losing the election we necessarily reverted to defense and having to respond to opposition moves. Ginna's point about voters' perceptions of environmentalism when voting has some merit: McClung ran as a stated environmentalist (a guffaw here), and most people had no idea about Patridge's…
September 21, 2006
Ray Olson presents the fallacy of false dichotomy in claiming just two options exist. Other options are apparent if one simply reads above. Incrementalism and pragmatism also come to mind, but that's too pokey for CCF (Don Bacon is an officer of that group) which is trying to rev things up here.
This whole discussion about what we "need" reminds me of the farmer, who while holding an ax behind his back, tells the turkey he's got a plan to relieve him of fear of an accidental death.
September 21, 2006
I hadn't thought of the the Coastal Act and Local Coastal Plans as being the same thing as the Sierra Club's Smart Growth program, but in effect and intention they are, so thanks for helping us connect those concepts, Kevin. The Sierra Club's Smart Growth and CCF's purloining of the term to foster development in our largely rural setting are at odds to be sure. I mention the word "intention" above because the Coastal Act is a preservationist act to conserve coastal resources, and Smart Growth is…
September 18, 2006
There should be no misunderstanding that Don Bacon and CCF present a development scheme to people who are not desirous of having one. His moral of the story, "there will be intense pressure on our community" refers to CCF and Don Bacon's pressure to buy into their vision for transforming the Coastside into a Glendale by the sea. Many of us are refugees from SoCal and have a different memory about the narrative of development down there. The developers were in a feeding frenzy by the mid 1960s, so…
September 17, 2006
I must clap for Don Bacon and CCF's pirouette away from their losing Foothill fiasco onto a winning cause like the Sierra Club's Smart Growth concept. It is almost believable, except . . . HMB's amended Local Coastal Plan, which the new council majority has ignored since assuming office, allows for increased urban infill and is in sync with Measure D, which Mr. Bacon opposes. Mr. Bacon's co-option of the "Smart Growth" term for CCF's development agenda ignores the actual conditions where it is supposed…
September 16, 2006
Thank you, Sofia Freer, for your calm assessment of the latest Planning Commission flap. Not satisfied with having stacked the Commission with five of the seven commissioners, the Council majority and its cronies are determined not just to dominate the development agenda, but to negatively bias public perception against anyone raising legitimate conerns regarding the law. Their way or the highway, black and white, cut and dried. Your letter at least helps the public get a whiff of what's going on…
September 05, 2006
To answer your question, yes, Charlie. I believe an agreement was in place and it wasn't any of my group's fault that the deal ran afoul of the feds. The rest transpired according to the rules of men and, perhaps for those who believe in him, the deity. You don't have to like it, but you should learn to live with it. As a law abiding citizen, Charlie, and not to beg my question a second time, why do you think it is okay to use the guise of farming to defy state and federal agencies? (As to my alliterative…
September 03, 2006
Charlie, environmentalists strongly backed Measure S and some of us worked many hours to try to pass it. Your slam about environmentalists opposing schools and other infrastructure improvements is ill informed at best, and mean in addition. So while we are generalizing, why do you think it is okay to use the guise of "farming" to defy state and federal agencies when the purpose is to evade existing regulations in order to encourage future development? The real "ruse" is that this is about farming,…
September 01, 2006
The irony is obviously lost on Brian Ginna when he advises Mr. Lancing that he should not be dispensing advice to others, although Kevin's advice is proffered without malice or petulance--he cautions about breaking the law. Too bad Mr. Ginna's "advice" doesn't adhere to a similar standard of civility.
August 02, 2006
I puzzled over Joel Farbstein's Tuesday evening post being unable to make some of his connections. (It did have a nice kissy-kiss to the Review though.) First he implies that Ken Johnson belongs to LCP, which is not and has not ever been the case. I think Farbstein refers to this as "shooting from the hip". Swinging from that dubious premise, Farbstein assails Steve Skinner, who does belong to LCP and who supported Measure S, making him an inadvertent ally of Farbstein's. Farbstein's pique is directed…
July 29, 2006
The point of Barry's editorial is that the two precincts that utterly defeated Measure S--Highland Park/Terrace and Casa Del Mar--are the same two precincts that overwhelmingly voted against LCP candidates, so we are not talking about "a small group of individuals," which is an absurd notion really, but sizeable neighborhoods within HMB's city limits that have gone negative for more than a single reason: i.e. the Terrace stoplight, CUSD's power play with the athletic fields, few children living in…
July 21, 2006
As someone following the PAM case by listening at the city council meetings, last Tuesday night's hearing convinces me that it is DOA (dead on arrival), that is, it's not going to go anywhere because there are too many tricky issues for the city to navigate. All of the council members paid proper obeisance to the wishes of the aeromodelers, but as the old saying goes, "If wishes were horses, than beggars would enjoy cheesebergers." The first time the violation was reviewed by the council, the majority…
July 12, 2006
The obvious note struck Tuesday night was one of moderation. Several of the applicants used terms like compromise, openness, balance, teamwork, and problem solving as things they'd like to bring to the council. Three said Half Moon Bay's structural deficit needed to be addressed, and also spoke of the need to finance the new park and the library soon. Because the applicants broached a lot of important issues, I was sorry that the council didn't spend a little time discussing the candidates' qualities…
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