Letter: Why was Pillar Ridge moved from Moss Beach to El Granada in 2008 census?
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In crunching the Midcoast numbers from the 2000 census, whoever was in charge decided to move the mobile home park from Moss Beach to El Granada, moving it to a different mailing address, and water/sanitary district. It made for a sharp drop in population for Moss Beach from the previous census and an unusual increase for El Granada, essentially making the 10-year comparisons useless.
If statistics are supposed to help planning, it seems counter-productive to assign a significant neighborhood population to a census area in a different water/sanitary/postal district. One wonders what could have been the reason for this. Was there a confusion about the location of the Pillar Ridge community because it was called El Granada Mobile Home Park at the time?
Lisa Ketcham