Comments by Chuck Kozak
January 25, 2008
This received from SMCo alerts at 9:19, yet Channel 2 news says slide is still closed and may not be open until Saturday ... 511.org does not list it as being closed ... anyone know for sure? chuck From: "SMC Info" To: "SMC Alert" Subject: Hwy 1 status Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:19:59 -0800 Disclose-Recipients: Prohibited Hwy 1 is now open Sent by Brian Molver to Miramar, Princeton, San Gregorio, Moss Beach, Coastal Communities, El Granada, Pacifica, Pescadaro, Half Moon Bay, Montara (E-mail accounts,…
January 16, 2008
With apologies to the memory of Raoul Wallenberg (and many, more recently "vanished" individuals who have not received anything near that kind of attention), but wouldn't you want a more appropriate memorial to that aspect of Mr Lantos' work? And my impression of the definition for a mountain was any geological form that rose more than 1,000 ft from its surroundings, a rumored fact I could not find verified anywhere when I looked. Most of the world uses 600 meters (about 2000 ft), but we're not most…
January 14, 2008
I highly recommend checking this out - I saw Robert's earlier show, based on the same technoques, at the Presdio last year, and the results are stunning!
chuck
January 14, 2008
I suspect those suspicions are correct, in at least that Yee thought this wouldn't be a bad idea. And he has been publically mentioned as a possible candidate for the seat: http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&aid=2561&ptid=9 and http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=85869 with all this in consideration, it is unlikely he would withdraw the lantos tunnel resolution, even if he did consider its inappropriateness, for fear of looking bad. This is probably…
January 12, 2008
Paul - I don't see the logic in that argument. Funding was just one of many critical components in the project. If Measure T had never happened there would be a 200 foot wide swath of concrete over Montara Mountain by now, an effort that would have been made possible by funding secured by Mr. Lantos. One could make the same argument for Caltrans' sudden love affair with tunnels once Measure T passed as being what "really" enabled the project to come to fruition. Or that it was then-Supervisor Ted…
January 12, 2008
Well, and now a sheepish correction - I should double-check these things before I spout off. According to Barbara VanderWerf's book "Montara Mountain" ... "Originally Devil's Slide meant only the promontory and the inland ridge. In the 1880's, travellers in horse-drawn wagons on the Half Moon Bay-Colma Road, which ran along the top of the ocean bluffs, paused to note the chute-like ridge ending in the massive rock dome. They thought it looked fit for a Devil's Slide and named it so." Note - this…
January 12, 2008
I think its a travesty and an insult to the hundreds of people who worked much harder than Mr. Lantos did to preserve that area, many of whom have since contracted incurable diseases also, yet I don't see any opportunistic politicians rushing to name highway projects after them. As Carl points out, and as Mr. Lantos himself says in the quoted statement, it wasn't his idea - and he never supported it until Measure T happened. He just held on to emergency funds for a project at devils slide, whether…
January 08, 2008
and for what it's worth, Lou's sign on State Route/Highway 1 at the south end of Pacifca blew down in the recent storms.
such are the fortunes of monuments.
January 07, 2008
I'm not opposed to naming something after someone, if they were singularly instrumental in the whatever it is that makes the place what it is. And honorific names do come in handy for street naming, or we'd have Avenue 1, 2 & 3 instead of Portola, Balboa and Alhambra. The reasoning for the proposed airport naming and the tunnel naming is different in circumstance and origin: an honor to a young girl pilot vs the recognition of a politician's work. These things need to be balanced against the whole…
January 06, 2008
I'm as appreciative and grateful as anyone for Mr.Lantos' support of and work for the funding and realization of the tunnel project, but not to the extent of giving him naming honors - as a duly elected representative of the area, it was his (well-paid) job to represent and champion the needs of our communities, which in this case he did quite well. The case could be made for naming the structures after any number of people who were much more critically instrumental in the 20 year effort of stopping…
August 26, 2005
Interesting quote from a tourist on Channel 2 news: "I don't think it's sad, I think it's dirty. People come here for the environment which is so clean ..." Also complaints from business and lodge owners about the smell beng bad for business ... What do they think is going out there under the waves? Like there's bathrooms and graveyards for the whales? This could only create pressure for CCWD to extend the El Granada pipeline project offshore, Maybe the extra capacity of the SAM plant could be used…
July 15, 2005
in reponse to the mysterious mal.comX, who asked: ..."I would like to know why our elected leaders on the Midcoast Community Council (MCC) appear to doing absolutely nothing while this sort of thing goes on. ... you might think that our elected MCC members (who actually live here) would care enough to lodge an official complaint with the County Bozos and the California Coastal Commission. (Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.)" The MCC has lodged, oh maybe several hundred formal complaints…
September 03, 2004
i am certainly a big fan of local control, but certainly not in any manner that further mr.braun's curious agenda of revenge and spite. i don't even think the exclusion of the midcoast urban areas from voting is an issue - certainly, if they wanted to incorporate they wouldn't want hmb or the rural estate lands having anything to say about it. as one of the few montara residents within the area described (i think, anyway - hard to tell from that blurry map - it would be a favor if the proponents…
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