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Do you like to go to the beach? Do you appreciate having a beach to go to? Are you happier when that beach has clean ocean water, thriving ocean life and isn't covered by rocks, seawalls or houses intruding on the public sand?If the answer to any/all of those questions is, “Yes!,” that means you're a fan of the California Coastal Act, a law passed in 1976 following a 1972 public uprising to defend the coast from development threats. The Coastal Act, as it's commonly known, protects two key rights: public beach access and coastal preservation – but now those rights are under attack as the Trump administration and California's own Governor Gavin Newsom seek to weaken or eliminate the agency charged with upholding them, the California Coastal Commission. Guest Jennifer Savage of Surfrider Foundation joins the show to discuss the movement to protect the Coastal Commission from attacks from the left and right.Want to help? Surfrider Foundation has the resources for you here. Support the show

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In today's newscast, the California Coastal Commission met in Santa Cruz this week and heard from supporters of its efforts to block an offshore drilling company from restarting a ruptured pipeline. And the Santa Cruz City Council will move forward with a housing development for local educators on Swift Street. Plus, Coffee Zombie Collective visits KAZU's Studio B.

In this episode of Welcome to Cloudlandia, Dan and I explore technology and communication sparked by an unexpected conversation about cold snaps in Florida. We examine the evolution of communication technologies, from text to video, focusing on AI's emerging role. Our discussion highlights how innovations like television and the internet have paved the way for current technological developments, using the progression of airliners as a metaphorical framework for understanding technological advancement. Our conversation shifts to exploring human interaction and technological tools. We question whether platforms like Zoom have reached their full potential, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness and collaboration. We then journey back to 1967, reflecting on historical and cultural movements that continue to shape our current societal landscape. This retrospective provides insights into how past experiences inform our present understanding of technology and social dynamics. Personal anecdotes and political observations help connect these historical threads to contemporary discussions. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS In the episode, we discuss how an unexpected cold snap in Florida sparked a broader conversation about life's unpredictable nature and the evolution of communication technology. We delve into the role of AI in research and communication, specifically highlighting the contributions of Charlotte, our AI research assistant, as we explore historical and current communication mediums. The conversation includes an analysis of technological progress, using airliner technology as a metaphor to discuss potential saturation points and future trajectories for AI. We reflect on the balance between technology and human connection, considering whether tools like Zoom have reached their full potential or if there is still room for improvement. Our discussion covers the importance of self-awareness in collaboration, utilizing personality assessments to enhance interpersonal interactions. We share a personal narrative about the logistical challenges of expanding workshop spaces in Chicago, providing real-world insights into business growth. The episode takes a reflective journey back to 1967, examining cultural movements and their ongoing impact on modern societal issues, complemented by political commentary and personal anecdotes. Links: WelcomeToCloudlandia.com StrategicCoach.com DeanJackson.com ListingAgentLifestyle.com TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Dean: Mr Sullivan, that would be me. Oh my goodness. Dan: I am not Do you have a cold? Dean: Do you have a cold? Dan: I do yeah. Dean: And is it freezing in Florida? Dan: It's very cold, it's unseasonably. Dean: Comparatively comparatively yes. Dan: It's unseasonably cold. Dean: Yeah. Yeah, well, we're getting our blast tomorrow, but it's colder than yeah. It's about 15 today with a 10 mile an hour wind which makes it 5, and tomorrow it's going down. It's going down even further. This is the joy of Canada in January. Dan: I don't know about the joy. Dean: But yeah, I like your voice I like your voice. Dan: I'm going to try and uh and make it all the way through, dad, but the uh just before you, I'm. Dean: You can put charlotte on. Dan: Yeah, exactly, yeah yeah, I'll tell you, I'm really realizing how, how incredible these conversations like. I really start to think and see how charlotte's um capabilities as a researcher. Dean: And uh, dean dean, I can't hear you. Dan: I'm trying to switch to my other uh headphones. But as long as you can hear me, can you hear me now? Dean: yeah, yeah, it's very good, okay good. Dan: Good, good good. Dean: I like this voice, though you know. Dan: It's got. Oh, really Okay, yeah, yeah, the baritone. Dean: Yeah, I mean you might create another version of yourself, you know which? Oh yeah, I should quick get on 11 Labs. I don't know if this would be your main course, but it would certainly be a nice seasoning. As a matter of fact, you could have on 11 Lab, you could go with them and you could have your normal voice as one of the partners and you could have this voice as the other partner. There you go, you could talk to each other. See, that makes a lot of sense right there. Yeah, it's so good. The reason the reason I'm saying this is I just had a whole chapter it is being done, I'll probably have it on tuesday, this being sunday of of one of the chapters of the book Casting Not Hiring, in two British voices, man and a woman, and it's charming, it's very charming. Dan: Really Wow. Dean: I really like it and they're more articulate. You know, brits, they invented the language, so I guess they're better at it. Yeah, that's what I really like about Charlotte's voice is the reassuring right, yeah, yeah, you get a sense that she's had proper upbringing. Dan: Mm-hmm, exactly, worldly wisdom. Well, certainly she's got command of the language yeah, the uh I was mentioning before I cut off there that uh, I was. I'm really coming to the realization how valuable charlotte is as a research partner. You, you know, a conversational, like exploration, like getting to the bottom of things, like I was. I've just fascinated how I told you last week that I, you know, reached the limit of our talk, you know capacity for a day and, but we had, we'd had over an hour conversation just going back and talking about, you know, the evolution of text, of words, um, and, and then we got up to the same. We got about halfway through uh, audio and uh, and then we got cut off. But I really like this framework of having her go back. I'm going to do the all four. I'm going to do audio and our text and audio and pictures and movies. You know, moving pictures, video, because there's there that's the order that we sort of evolved them and I think I think we don't know whether I guess we have pictures. First I think it was words, and then pictures, and then sound and then and then moving pictures. But you look at, I really I think I was on to something. Dean: You're talking about the ability to record and pass on From a communication standpoint. Dan: Yeah, and I'm kind of tracing. The first step is the capability to do it like the technology that allowed it, like the printing press. Okay, now we've had a capability, or once we had an alphabet and we had a unified way of doing it. That opened up for, uh, you know, I was going looking at the capability and then what was the kind of distribution of that? What was? How did that end up? You know, moving forward, how did we use that to advance? And then what were the? What were the business, you know, the capitalization of it going forward, who were the people who capitalized on? this it's a very interesting thing. That's why I think that where we are right now with AI, that we're probably at the stage of, you know, television 1950 and internet 1996, kind of thing, you know, and by over the next 25 years I think we're it's just going to be there. I mean, it's just it's going to be soaking in it. Dean: It's hard to know. I mean, there's some technologies that more or less come to an end, and I'll give you airliners. For example, the speed at which the fastest airliner can go today was already available in the 1960s the 707, the Boeing 707. Dan: Well, we've actually gone backwards because we had the Concorde in the 70s, you know. Dean: Yeah, but not widespread. That was just a novelty you know a novelty airline, but I mean in terms of general daily use, you know, I think we're probably a little lower. We're below the sound barrier. I suspect that some of the first airliners were breaking windows and everything like that and then they put in the law that you overlay and you cannot travel. I think it's around 550, maybe 550. I think sound barrier is somewhere early 600 miles an hour. I'm not quite sure what the exact number is, but we've not advanced. I mean they've advanced certainly in terms of the comfort and the safety. They've certainly advanced. I mean it's been. I think in the United States it goes back 16 years since they've had a crash. A crash, yeah, and you know what. Dan: I heard that the actual thing, the leading cause of death in airline travel, is missiles. That's it is. That's the thing. Over the last 10 years there have been more airliners shot down. Dean: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't want to be on a plane where you don't want to be in missile territory. You don't want to be on a plane where you don't want to be in missile territory. Dan: You don't want to be flying over missile territory. Dean: That's not good. No, do not get on that flight. Yeah, yeah Anyway, but I was just thinking about that. We were in Chicago for the week, came home on Friday night and you know I was on a 747, one of the last years that they were using 747s Wow, they're almost all cargo planes now. I think the only airline that I've noticed that's using still has A747 is Lufthansa. Oh, okay. Because we're at Toronto. They're all. They have the 380s. You know the huge. Dan: Yeah, they fly those to Australia, the A380. Dean: Well, yeah, this one is Emirates. Emirates their airline is a 380. But the only airline. You know that I noticed when we're departing from the terminal here in Toronto. The only one that I've seen is but they have in Chicago. There's a whole freight area. You know from freight area, Some days there's seven, seven 747s there, yeah, and they're a beautiful plane. I think, as beautifulness, beauty of planes goes to. 747 is my favorite. I think it's the most beautiful plane in any way. But they didn't go any faster, they didn't go any further. And you know our cars, you know the gas cars could do. They have the capability of doing 70, miles per gallon now, but they don't have to, they don't have to they have to, they have to, you know. So if they don't have to, they don't do it. You know all technology if they, if they don't have to do it. So it's an interesting idea. I mean, we're so used to technology being constantly open. But the big question is is there a customer for it? I mean like virtual reality, you know, was all the thing about five years ago. You had Mark Zuckerberg doing very, very. I think he will look back and say that that was a very embarrassing video. That I did the metaverse and everything else. It's just dropped like a stone. Dan: People just haven't bought into it even though the technology is. Dean: Don't like it. Dan: So my friend Ed Dale was here and he had the Apple, um, you know, the, the vision pro, uh, goggles or whatever. And so I got to, you know, try that and experience it. And it really is like uncanny how it feels, like you're completely immersed, you know and I and. I think that, for what it is, it is going to be amazing, but it's pretty clear that we're not nobody's like flocking to put on these big headgear, you know. Dean: You know why? Our favorite experiences with other people and it cuts you off from other people. It's a dehumanizing activity. Dan: Did you ever see the Lex Friedman podcast with Mark Zuckerberg in the metaverse? Dean: No, I didn't. Dan: It was a demo of the thing they were. It was kind of like uh, do you remember charlie rose? You remember the charlie rose? Sure, that's not the black curtain in the background, okay. Well, it was kind of set up like that, but mark and lex friedman were in completely different areas a a completely different you know, lex was in Austin or whatever and Mark was in California and they met in this you know metaverse environment with just a black background like that, and you could visibly see that Lex Friedman was a little bit like shaken by how real it seemed like, how it felt like he was really there and could reach out and touch him. You know, and you could really tell it was authentically awestruck by, by this technology you know, so I don't. Dean: I don't doubt that, but the yeah, but I don't want that feeling, I mean. Zoom has taken it as far as I really want to go with it. Dan: That's true, I agree 100%. Dean: I have no complaints with what Zoom isn't doing? Dan: Yeah, complaints with what Zoom? Dean: isn't doing yeah, yeah, it's. You know, it's very clear, you know they add little features like you can even heighten the portrait quality of yourself. That's fine, that's fine, but it's you know. You know I was thinking. The other day I was on a Zoom. I've been on a lot of Zoom calls in the last two weeks for different reasons and I just, you know, I said this is good. You know, I don't need anything particularly more than I'm getting. Dan: Right. Dean: So I wonder, if we get a point of technological saturation and you say I don't want any more technology, I just yeah, I want to squirrel it with a nut right? Dan: yeah, I think once I get more, the more I talk with Charlotte, the more it feels like a real collaboration. Dean: You know, like it feels, like you don't need a second. Dan: I don't need to see her or to, but you don't need a second. I don't need to see her or to, uh, I don't need. No, you don't, but you don't need a second person. Dean: You got, you got the one that'll get smarter absolutely yeah, exactly yeah, and so it's. Dan: I mean it's pretty, it's pretty amazing this whole uh, you know I was saying thinking back, like you know, the last 25 years we're 25 years into this, this hundred years, you know this millennia, and you know, looking because that's a real, you know, 2000 was not that long ago. When you look backwards at it, you know, and looking forward, it's pretty. Uh, I, that's, I'm trying to align myself to look more forward than uh than back right now and realize what it is like. I think. I think that through line, I think that the big four are going to be the thing. Words like text and pictures and sound and video, those are at the core. But all of those require on, they're just a conveyance for ideas, you know. Dean: Yeah. Yeah, it's very interesting because we have other senses, we have touch, we have taste, we have smell, but I don't see any movement at all. Dan: In the physical world, right exactly. Dean: Yeah, yeah, I don't see it that. I think we want to keep. You know, we want to keep mainland, we want to keep those things mainland. Dan: Yeah. Dean: And I think that. Dan: That's really. You know, if you think about the spirit of what we started, Welcome to Cloudlandia, for was really exploring that migration and thehabitation of the mainland and Cloudlandia. Dean: Yeah. Dan: Because so much of these things? Dean: But I think, and I'm just wondering, Harry and I'm not, making a statement. I'm just wondering whether each human has a unique nervous system and we have different preferences on how our nervous system interacts with different kinds of experiences. I think it's a very idiosyncratic world in the sense that everybody's up to something different. Dan: Mm-hmm. Dean: Yeah. Dan: And I think you're right. But that's where these self-awareness things, like knowing you're Colby and you're a working genius and you're Myers-Briggs and all these self-awareness things, are very valuable, and even more valuable when pairing for collaboration, realizing in a who-not-how world that there's so many we're connected to everybody, you know. Dean: Yeah, and we've got our purposes for interacting. You know I mean we have. You know I'm pretty extroverted when it comes to business, but I'm very, very introverted when it comes to personal life. Dan: I think I'd be the same thing. Dean: Yeah, yeah, and in other words, I really enjoy. We had, we were in Chicago and we had nine workshops in five days there and they were big workshops. They were you know each. We have a big, we have a big, huge room. Now we can technically we can put a hundred in. Now we can put a hundred person workshop. Oh, in Chicago, yeah. Dan: In Chicago yeah. Dean: We've taken over large amounts of the floor. I think there's just one small area of that floor that we don't have. It's a. It's a weird thing. It looks like some sort of deep state government building. We've never seen anyone in it and we've never seen anyone in it. But it's lit up and it's got an American flag and it's got some strange name that I don't know, and that's the only thing that's on the forest. It's not been known that a human actually came to the office there, anyway, but we've taken over 6,000 square feet, six more thousand. Oh wow, yeah, which is quite nice. Dan: That's pretty crazy. How's the studio project? Dean: coming Jim's starting, we had great, great difference of opinion on what the insurance is for it. Oh, that's a problem Insurance companies are not in the business of paying out claims. That's not their business model, Anyway. So our team, two of our team members, Mitch and Alex great, great people. They got the evidence of the original designer of the studio. They got the evidence of the original owner of the studio and how much he paid. They got the specifications. They brought in a third person, Third person. They got all this. These people all had records and we brought it to the insurance company. You know and you know what it, what it was valued at, and I think it's 2000, I think it was in 2000 that it was created. It was rated the number one post-production studio in Canada in the year 2000. Dan: Wow. Dean: Yeah, you know and everything. So they you know. And then, strangely enough, the insurance company said well, you got to get a public adjuster. We got a public adjuster and he had been in coach for 20 years. He favors us. Uh-huh, well, that's great, he favors us. Dan: He favors us? Dean: Yeah, Exactly yeah, but the first check is they give the checks out in the free. You know, there's a first check, there's a middle check and there's a final check. So, but I think we'll have complete studios by october, october, november that's which will be great yeah, yeah, we should be great. Yeah, you know, uh, the interesting thing. Here's a thought for you, and I'm not sure it's the topic for today. Um, uh, it has to do with how technology doesn't develop wisdom, doesn't develop. The use of technology doesn't develop wisdom. It develops power, it develops control, it develops ambition, but it doesn't develop wisdom. And I think the reason is because wisdom is only developed over time. Dan: Yes, and that wisdom is yeah, I think from real experience. Dean: And wisdom is about what's always going to be true, and technology isn't about what's always going to be true. It's about what's next. It's not about what's always the same they're actually opposed. Technology and wisdom are Well, they're not opposed. They operate in different worlds. Dan: Yeah, it feels like wisdom is based on experience, right? Dean: Yeah, which happens over time. Dan: Mm-hmm. Yeah, which happens over time. Yeah, yeah, because it's not theoretical at that. I think it's got to be experiential. Dean: Yeah. Yeah, it's very interesting. I heard a great quote. I don't know who it was. It might be a philosopher by the name of William James and his definition of reality, you know what his definition of reality is no, I don't, it's a great definition. Reality is that which, if you don't believe in it, still exists. Dan: Oh yeah, that's exactly right, and that's the kind of things that just because you don't know it, you know that's exactly right and that's what you know. Dean: That's the kind of things that, just because you don't know it, you know that doesn't mean it doesn't mean it can't bite you, but when, when you get hit by it, then that then, you've big day, you know, and yeah, and you know, with Trump. He said he's got 100 executive orders For day one. Yeah, and the only question is you know, inauguration, does day one start the moment he's sworn in, is it? Does it start the moment he's? Dan: sworn in. Is it? Does it start the day he's sworn in? Dean: Yeah. Dan: Yeah, okay, so let's see yeah. Dean: The moment the Chief Justice. You know he finishes the oath. He finishes the oath, he's the president and Joe's officially on the beach. Dan: Right yeah, shady acres. Dean: Right, exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what's happened this past week, since we actually we haven't talked for two weeks but the fires in Los Angeles. I think this in political affairs and I think it is because it's the first time that the newest 10,000 homeless people in Los Angeles are rich. Dan: Oh man, yeah, I've heard Adam Carolla was talking about that. There's going to be a red wave that comes over California now because all these, the Democratic elite, which would be all of those people who live on those oceanfront homes and all that they were so rallying. No, they were so rallying to be on the side of regulation so that people couldn't build around them, and they made it so. You know, now that they've got theirs, they made it very, very difficult for other people to eclipse them or to do the things, eclipse them or to do the things, and they're gonna run straight into the wall of All these regulations when they start to rebuild what they had. Dean: You know it's gonna be years and years of going through regulation and Coastal Commission and you know all that to get approvals yeah, and they're going to be frustrated with that whole thing, but I've been hearing that there was some arson involved. Somebody's been. Well, yeah, you know, have you ever seen or heard of Michael Schellenberger? He's really, he's great. He's a scientist who's gone public. You know, he's sort of a public intellectual now, but he was, and he was very much on the left and very much with the global warming people, much with the global warming people. Then he began to realize so much of the global warming movement is really an attempt. Exactly what you said about the California rich. These are rich people who don't want the rest of the world to get rich. The way you keep them from not getting rich is you don't give them access to energy. And you've got your energy and you can pay for more, but they don't have energy. So you prevent them. And so he became a big fan of nuclear power. He said, you know, the best thing we can do so that people can catch up quickly is we should get nuclear in, because they may be a place where there really isn't easy access to oil, gas and coal, africa being, you know, africa being a place and, uh, he just has gradually just gone deeper and deeper into actual reality and now he's completely you know, he's completely against the you know, against the people who want to get rid of fossil fuels. Dan: But, anyway. Dean: he said what nobody wants to touch with a 10 foot pole in California is that in addition to rich people, there were homeless people in the Pacific Palisades and he said, and a lot of them are meth addicts. And he said meth addicts' favorite activity is to set fires. He says different drugs have different. In other words, you take heroin and you want to do this, you take cocaine. You want to do this With methamphetamines. What you want to do is you want to set fires. So he said and nobody wants to talk about the homeless meth addicts who are starting fires that burn down 10,000 homes. You know, because they're actually welcome in Los Angeles. They actually get government benefits. Yeah, there's a lot of what they stand for that collides with reality. Dan: A lot of what they stand for that collides with reality. Yeah, it is going to be crazy. I think. Dean: Gavin should forget it. I think Gavin should forget about the presidency. Dan: Oh man, yeah, they're going to have him. He's going to have some explaining to do. Dean: Yeah, you do. Yeah, you know. Yeah, you know. It was very interesting. When I got out of the Army, which was 1967, may of 1967, I was in Korea and they put us on a big plane, they flew us to Seattle and they discharged us in Seattle. So, and but you had money to get home. You know, they gave you, you know, your discharge money. So I had a brother who was teaching at the University of San Francisco and and, and so I went down and I visited with him. He was a philosophy teacher, dead now, and so it was 1967. And he said there's this neat part of the city I want to take you to, and it was Haight-Ashbury. And it was right in the beginning of that movement, the hippie movement, and I had just been in the army for two years, so there was a collision of daily discipline there and anyway. But we were walking down the street and I said what's that smell? Weird smell. He says, oh yeah, you want to try some marijuana. Well, what you saw with was what you saw last week with the fires is the philosophy of hippieism moved into government control over a period of 60 years. It ends up with fires where there's no water in the reservoirs yeah, that's. Dan: Yeah, I mean so many uh cascading, so many cascading problems. Right, that came yeah when you think about all the um, all the other things, it's crazy. Yeah, yeah, all the factors that had to go into it, yeah, it's so. This is what the Internet, you know, this, this whole thing now is so many, like all the conspiracy theories now about all of these. Every time, anything you know, there's always the that they were artificially. You know there's some scientists talking about how the barometric pressure has been artificially low for yeah period. Dean: Yeah well, yeah, it's very, it's very interesting how energy you know, just energy plays into every other discussion. You know, just to have the power to do what you want to do. That day is a central human issue and and who you do it with and what you have. You know what, what it is that you can do, and you know and I was having a conversation I was in Chicago for the week and there was a lot of lunch times where other clients not. I had just the one workshop, but there were eight other workshops. So people would come into the cafe for lunch and they'd say, if you had to name three things that Trump's going to emphasize over the next four years, what do you think they would be? And I said energy, energy, energy. Dan: Yeah. Dean: Three things just energy. Drill drill drill, Drill, drill, drill. Yeah, and Greenland, Canada and Panama. Dan: Take them over. Dean: Yeah exactly hey Canada we're out of wood Get out. Yeah, things are strange up here. Dan: Yeah, what's the what's the Well, he's gone. Dean: But he's still around for two months but he resigned. He's resigned as prime minister, he's resigning as party leader and I think it was on Wednesday he said he's not running in the election, so he's out as a. And then he'll go to Harvard because that's where all the liberal failures go. They become professors at Harvard I suspect, I suspect, yeah, or he may just go back to Whistler and he'll be a snowboard instructor, wouldn't that? Dan: be cool. Dean: Or he may just go back to. Dan: Whistler, and he'll be a snowboard instructor. Dean: That'd be kind of cool, wouldn't that be cool? Get the former prime minister as your snowboard instructor. Dan: Yeah, really Exactly yeah, is there. I don't even know, is he rich? Is their family? Dean: rich. Well, I think it's a trust fund. I mean, his dad didn't work. His dad was in politics Not as you and I would recognize work, but it was gas station. Trudeau had a lot of gas station, which is ironic. Dan: It is kind of ironic, isn't it yeah? Dean: Yeah, but I don't think he has that much. You know, I saw some figures. Maybe he's got a couple of million, which which you know, probably what was available, that you know those trust funds, they don't perpetuate themselves, right, yeah, but he's. Yeah, there's just two people are running. That's the woman who knifed him. You know Christia Freeland. She's just two people running. That's the woman who knifed him. You know, chrystia Freeland, she's running. And then the former governor of the Bank of Canada and the former governor Bank of England. He was both governor and he's really very much of a wackadoodle intellectual, really believes that people have too much freedom. We have to restrict freedom and we have to redesign. Davos is sort of a Davos world economic firm. We've got ours, you don't get ours. We've got ours, you don't get ours. We've got ours, you don't get yours. Strange man, very strange man. She's a strange woman. Dan: Is it pretty much green lights for Polyev right now? Dean: Yeah, he's not doing anything to ruin his chances either. He's actually. He had a great interview with jordan peterson about two weeks ago. He was very, very impressive. Dan: I'm very impressed about it yeah, yeah oh, that's great, yeah, oh did you go to? This Christmas party, by the way. Dean: No, I didn't. They didn't follow through, Uh-oh. So you know, I'm just going to sit in this chair and wait, you know. Dan: Yeah, exactly. Dean: I mean, he'll be told, you know that you've missed a huge opportunity here. You know Mm-hmm. Dan: Yes, exactly, yeah, oh man, yeah, that's funny, dan, I'm. You know, after four years of being no further, I didn't go north of I-4, I'm in this crazy little vortex of travel right now coming up. I was just in Longboat Key. I was speaking at JJ Virgin's Mindshare Summit, so I was there Wednesday till yesterday and then I'm home. I got hit with this cold. I think it was like a. You know, whenever you're in a group of people in a big thing, it's always it becomes a super spreader kind of event. You know, there's a lot of people with this kind of event, there's a lot of people with this kind of lung gunk thing going around. So I ended up getting it. But I've got now until Tuesday to get better. Then I'm going to speak at Paris Lampropolis here in Orlando and then I go to Miami for Giovanni Marseco's event the following week, and then I've got my Breakthrough Blueprint in Orlando the week after that and then Scottsdale for FreeZone the week after that. Every week, the number of nights in my own bed is we're going to Scottsdale or not Scottsdale, but week after next. Dean: I'll be here next Sunday, Then I go on Tuesday. We go to Phoenix and we'll be at Carefree. Dan: What's Carefree? Oh, that's where. Dean: No, no, carefree is north and east of Scottsdale in Phoenix yeah. And so we're at Richard Rossi's. Dan: Da. Dean: Vinci 50. Then we take off for there, we drive to Tucson for Canyon Ranch, we drive back and we have the summit, we have the Free Zone Summit Then, then we have 100K, and then we have 100K. So that's it. So are you coming to the summit too? I am of course, and what I'm doing this time is I have three speakers in the morning and three speakers in the afternoon, and I have Stephen Poulter, Leslie Fall and Sonny Kalia, and then in the afternoon I have Charlie Epstein, Chris Johnson and Steve Crine. I have Charlie. Epstein, chris Johnson and Steve Crang. And what I did is I did a triple play on the three in the morning, three in the afternoon. I did a triple play and then I'm talking to each of them, the names of the three speakers, three columns, and then you write down what you got from these three columns, right? And then you get your three insights and then you talk in the morning in groups and then you do the same thing in the afternoon. I think that would be neat, nice. Dan: Very nice. It's always a good time, always a great event. Yeah, two parties. Dean: Yep, we have sort of a party every night with Richard. It's about three parties Two parties with me and then probably two parties with Joe so seven parties, seven parties, seven parties, yeah, yeah Well. I hope your editor. Can, you know, modulate your voice delivery? Dan: I'm so sorry, yeah, exactly. Dean: Yeah, you got it. What a couple days you've been with it. Dan: Yeah, yesterday was like peak I can already feel that you know surrounded by doctors at JJ's thing. So I got some. Dean: Where's? Dan: Lawn. Dean: Boat Tea. Dan: Sarasota. Dean: Oh, okay. Dan: Yeah, it's just an island right off of Sarasota and so, you know, surrounded by doctors, and so I got some glutathione and vitamin C. I got some glutathione and vitamin C and some. Then I got home and JJ's team had sent some bone broth and some you know, some echinacea tea and all the little care package for nipping it in the bud and a Z-Pak for I've got a great pancake power pancake recipe that I created. Dean: I actually created this. You're talking to an originator. Dan: It's a world premiere here. Dean: Yeah, so you take about six ounces of egg white Egg white, okay and you put it in a blender, and then you take about a handful of walnuts. You put it in a blender and then you take about a handful of walnuts, you put it in and you take a full scoop of bone broth and put it in. Then you just take a little bit of oatmeal, just give it a little bit of starch, then a little bit of salt, then you veggie mix it, veggie mix it, you know. Then you put it in a pie pan, okay. And then you put frozen raspberries oh yeah, raspberries, bacon bits and onions. Raspberries and bacon bits Yep, yep, okay, yep, yep, bacon bits makes everything taste better. Yep, okay yeah, bacon bits makes everything taste better. Dan: It really does. I don't think about that with the raspberries, but that's great. Dean: Yeah, I told people in the coach, you know the triple play. I said triple play is my bacon tool. I said whatever other, whatever other tool you did, you do the triple play and it's like adding bacon to it. Adding bacon, that's the best. Yeah, it makes it good. And then you just put it in the microwave for five and a half minutes and it comes out as a really nice pancake. Oh, that's great. Yeah, and it's protein. I call it my protein pie, protein pie. Dan: That's great. Dan Sullivan's triple play protein pie. Yeah, yeah, the recipe recipe cards handed out. Will they show up in the breakfast buffet? Dean: No, no, it's, you know, I think it's. I think it takes a developed taste, you know, to get it, you know, but it's got a lot of protein. It's got, you know, egg white in the protein. The bone broth has a ton of protein in it, yeah, so it's good. Yeah, I'm down. Good, yeah, I'm at, probably since I was 20, maybe in the Army my present weight. I'm probably down there and I got about another 10 to go, and then it's my linebacker weight when I was in high school. Dan: Oh, that's great. Dean: Going back to linebacker Mm-hmm. Dan: Well, you'll have those new young teenage knees that you'll be able to suit up One of them. Dean: One of them anyway. Dan: If your Cleveland Browns need you. Yeah, if your. Dean: Cleveland Browns need you. Yeah, well, if you want to play professional football, play for the Browns, because you always get January off. That's funny. Yeah, kansas City yesterday, you know it was about zero. You know I mean boy, oh boy. You know you got to you know, I mean. Did Kansas City win yesterday? Yeah, they won, you know, 23, 23-14, something like that, you know. And you know they're just smarter. You know, it's not even that they're better athletes. I think their coach is just smarter and everything like that. Jim, I watch. I'm more interested in college football than I am. Ohio State and Notre Dame, Two historically classical. Dan: I've really gotten into Colorado football because just watching what Deion Sanders has done in two seasons basically went from the last worst team in college football. Yeah To a good one to a good yeah To nine and three and a bowl game, and you know, and Travis Hunter won the Heisman and they could potentially have the number one and two draft picks in the NFL this year. Dean: You know that's, that's something. Did he get both? Dan: of them draft picks in the NFL. This year that's something. Dean: Did he get both of them? I know he got his son because his son came with him. Was he a transfer Hunter? I don't know if he was a transfer. Dan: He brought him from Jackson State because before, before dion went to uh colorado, he spent three years in yeah at jackson state and turned that whole program around yeah and then came uh and now she was talking to the cowboys this this week I. I don't know whether he is or that's. Uh, I mean, they're everybody's speculating that. That's true. I don't know whether he is or that's. I mean everybody's speculating that that's true, I don't know how I feel about that Like I think it would be interesting. You know I'm rooting that he stays at Colorado and builds an empire, you know, yeah. Dean: Of course you know it used to screw the athletes because the coach, would you know, drop them. They would come to the university and then they would leave. Dan: That's what I mean, that's what? Dean: I think that he would no, but now they have the transfer portal, so you know if the university, yeah, but still I think it would leave a lot of. Dan: I think it would leave a really bad taste in people's mouths if he, if he left now. Dean: Yeah. Dan: Yeah, Like. Dean: I think, that would. Dan: I would. I wouldn't feel good about what about that either, cause I think about all the people that he's brought there with promises. You know, like everybody's joint he's, he's building momentum. All these top recruits are coming there because of him, yeah, and now you know, if he leaves, that's just. You know that. That's too. I don't know. I don't feel good about that, I don't feel good. Dean: Yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, I've got, I got a jump, I've got. Jeff. We're deep into the writing of the book we have to chat for about 10 minutes. Dan: I'm happy. Dean: I hope your cold goes away. I'll be here in Toronto next week and I'll call and we'll see each other. We'll see each other within the next couple of weeks. Dan: That's exactly right Okay. Dean: Okay, bye, talk to you soon. Bye.

Three hearings held during the February 24th City Council meeting focused on ways to ease the path for new housing in Fort Bragg, regulate outdoor dining, and approve concessions for an affordable senior housing development on Hazelwood.  The first hearing focused on changes to ordinances that were previously approved and sent to the California Coastal Commission for review.  They codified standards for tiny home communities and set regulations for tiny homes, RV parks, and mobile homes.  The third ordinance established a 10 pm curfew for restaurants with outdoor dining.  The three ordinances will now go back to the Coastal Commission for final certification.  The second hearing focused on regulations for alternative dwelling units.  The City's previous ordinance which was approved in 2023, did not meet the changes made by the state in 2024. The new ordinance was modified to meet state law.  Some of the most notable changes were; ·         Changes to the maximum square footage of a second unit, which is now 50% of the primary. ·         The ability to convert storage rooms, garages, attics, barns, sheds, and basements to ADUs as long as they meet state building standards for dwellings. ·         The requirement for a separate bathroom for a Junior ADU has been removed.  ·         ADUs cannot be restricted to the backyard.  ·         Multifamily properties can add up to eight ADUs depending on the number of existing units.  The third hearing was for a 49-unit senior apartment complex to be located at 860 Hazelwood.  The project developers intend to make the entire complex affordable making units available for households that make between 30 and 60% of the area's median income.  Council was asked to provide concessions from the developer including making it a three-story building and allowing for a height variance to accommodate an elevator shaft.  This is the second three-story multi-family complex that is working its way through the city.  The preliminary approval was for the concessions only.  The project will go before the planning commission and will need Coastal Commission approval to proceed.  The Council also increased the signature authority for City Manager Isaac Whippy from $25,000 to $60,000, confirmed the results of the annual police services salary survey, which resulted in pay raises for three classifications, and approved a contract to continue services from Palni Inc. for the Municipal Broadband Utility Project.  Whippy provided an update on negotiations regarding the acquisition of the Mendocino Coast Network or MCN which is on offer for $500,000 and efforts to access additional funding for the broadband network.  He expects to wrap up these efforts by the end of June this year.  Two studies were approved by the council to review rates and fees.  One will focus on water services. The second study is on fees at the CV Starr Center. The council also noted that plans to open the CV Starr Center on Sunday are in the works and informed the community of efforts being made by the Mendocino Coast Regional Park District to appropriate monies from a sales tax initiative that was intended for CV Starr for other projects.  The council asked residents to attend MCRPD public meetings in March.  Mayor Godeke will be at CV Starr on Thursday the 27th, to talk to CV Starr regulars about the center and its programs.  Several upcoming events were mentioned by the council, including a Pomo event on the headlands scheduled for April, 26th, and a blues festival scheduled for May 2nd through 4th.   Councilmember Tess Albin Smith was appointed as chair for the Mendocino Transit Authority and plans to focus on expanding services on Sunday and to look into providing transportation to local hospitals.  

In this episode of the California Underground Podcast, host Phil and co-host Camille welcome Grant Cardone, a prominent figure in real estate and business. They discuss the current state of California, the challenges it faces, and the opportunities for change. Grant shares his journey from starting businesses with no money to building a significant real estate portfolio. He emphasizes the importance of political engagement and community involvement to address California's issues, including high taxes, homelessness, and regulations. The conversation highlights the need for a shift in mindset towards abundance and the potential for grassroots movements to effect change in the state.Are you a Californian who feels isolated and alone in your political views in a deep blue state? Feel like you can't talk about insane taxes, an overbearing government, and radical social experiments without getting a side eye? Then join us on the California Underground Podcast to hear from people just like you. Original air date 2.7.25Chapters00:00 Introduction to Grant Cardone and His Journey03:37 The State of California: Challenges and Opportunities06:15 The Importance of Political Engagement in California09:12 The Role of Regulations and Government in California's Issues12:25 The Need for a Shift in California's Mentality15:07 The Call for Action: Rebuilding California18:14 The Complexity of Government Regulations21:19 The Coastal Commission's Impact on Development24:07 The Future of California: A Vision for Abundance31:23 Political Landscape in California33:52 Local Elections Matter36:34 The Role of Outsiders in Change40:03 Hypothetical Governance: Grant Cardone's Vision52:10 Education and Government Dependency56:23 California's Future: A Call to Action*The California Underground Podcast is dedicated to discussing California politics from a place of sanity and rationality.*Check out our full site for more information about the show atwww.californiaunderground.liveFollow California Underground on Social Media  Instagram:www.instagram.com/californiaunderground X:https://twitter.com/CAUndergoundTik Tok:https://www.tiktok.com/@californiaunderground?_t=8o6HWHcJ1CM&_r=1YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj8SabIcF4AKqEVFsLmo1jA Read about our Privacy Policy:https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/privacy-policy/ 

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In a recent interview, Fort Bragg resident and property owner Peter McNamee voiced strong opposition to Mendocino Railway's plans to reopen Tunnel One with the aid of a federal loan granted in January. McNamee cited a Coastal Commission document that details the environmental harm the the tunnel project will cause.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves publicly extends invite to Space X, Tesla & X CEO Elon Musk to relocate Space X here after California's Coastal Commission uses lawfare to prevent launches based 100% of Elon's political endorsement of Donald Trump.

Adam wraps up the week by updating his theory of octagons versus safe spaces, they discuss Portland reeling their woke policies back, and the state of the Trudeau experiment. Plus the Coastal Commission ousting Elon Musk, Adam explains the Jake Tapper strategy, and they dish out some Rich Man Poor Man. Leave us a voicemail: SpeakPipe.com/AdamandDrDrew OR Click the microphone at top of the homepage, AdamandDrDrew.com

Early voting starting in some states. Most Americans not getting their information from mainstream media. Woke Wednesday. Kamala Harris gives an interview to Charlamange tha God. Chad's 13 scariest movie countdown #12. Texas Senate debate. Coastal Commission rejects SpaceX plans for more Southern California rocket launches. 

PROTECTING THE 2024 VOTE, & A WEBINAR ON NEW NUKES > > We start GREEP Zoom #193 with the great ANDREA MILLER, who lays out her powerful push for getting out the vote in key swing states, including Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. > > STEPHEN SPITZ explains his very mixed experience with young election workers at the University of Michigan. > > RAY MCCLENDON follows by describing the mixed impacts of manipulated polls and the stripping of voter registration rolls in Georgia and elsewhere. > > A major election outcome prediction made by Alan Lichtman, who has been right many times before, is analyzed by TATANKA BRICCA. > > > We then shift gears to our Nuclear Webinar, starting with Michigan-based reporter ROGER RAPOPORT, who gives us the low-down on the insane attempt to re-fire the Palisades atomic reactor. > > World-renowned health researcher JOE MANGANO confirms the death toll from TMI, Fermi, Palisades and other nukes linked to radiation emissions from these “perfectly safe” loser reactors. > KEVIN KAMPS of Beyond Nuclear adds Fermi I and other destroyed or decrepit nukes to the murderous list. We pay homage to the great Philadelphia Inquirer op ed against TMI from the great Jane Fonda.  LINDA SEELEY from the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace updates us on the latest developments from Diablo Canyon, and reminds us that badly embrittled pressure vessel at Unit One is identical to the RPV at Palisades.. SHERI MCWHIRTER asks about the rule-making petition being circulated by Roger Rapoport. MYLA RESON reminds us of the steam generator disaster at San Onofre that forced that plant's permanent closure. Cleveland's CONNIE KLINE reports on the continuing energy disaster in Ohio. Santa Monica's PAUL NEWMAN asks about Betty Yee, a candidate for California governor who stabbed the renewables industry while she was on the Coastal Commission. LYNN FEINERMAN wonders if the fossil/nuke industry is using the “anti-woke” reaction to obstruct the rise of renewable energy worldwide. STEVE CARUSO wonders about the “crazy-whack” attack against renewables despite their plummeting price tag. Next week we will meet on Indigenous People's Day, hopefully to celebrate the release of LEONARD PELTIER.

September 26, 2024 — Mendocino County is considered a climate haven. While figures about incoming and outgoing populations are mixed depending on which study or part of the county you are talking about, preparation is key. At a meeting hosted by the Grass Roots Institute on September 9th, Tim Robustelli from the Washington DC-based think tank, New America, and local planners from the Cities of Fort Bragg, Point Arena, and Mendocino County, Supervisors Dan Gjerde and Ted Williams, the Mendocino Council of Governments and the Coastal Commission met to discuss the impact climate refugees could have on the county.

This week Paul is out of town on business but he still made the time to host an interview with Monterey County 4th District Supervisor Wendy Root Askew. That interview can be heard at the 30 minute mark of this week's program. Preceding that, Dan and Mark discuss the Coastal Commission approval of a busway adjacent to Highway One in order to benefit MST and we dive into an appellate court ruling that says a local government agency wrongly collected a tax from local residents. A taxpayer advocacy group brought a lawsuit against the tax and are victorious.

September 16, 2024 — On September 9th, the Fort Bragg City Council held a hearing on a local coastal program amendment and coastal development permit for the area commonly referred to as the millsite. The changes alter the zoning on several parcels. If approved by the Coastal Commission, the change will allow the Noyo Center to build on its portion of the site, place the Noyo Headlands trail systems under parks and recreation zoning, and change the zoning on two parcels owned by the Sherwood Valley Tribe to medium-density residential.

Just last week, the legislative session for the year ended in Sacramento meaning a batch of legislation was passed that, if signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, would change the way the state conducts its transportation business. In this episode of SGV Connect, co-host Damien Newton goes it alone, interviewing Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry. As an aside, both Newton and Curry will be at the Streetsblog San Francisco/Streetsblog California anniversary party next week at Manny's in the Mission on Thursday, September 12, at 6:00 p.m. along with a bevy of transportation reform superstars including mayors, transit board chairs and Senator Scott Wiener. If you happen to be in the area, drop by and join us. Reserve your ticket, here. But for now, buckle in and enjoy today's podcast. A full transcript can be found beneath the audio player below. Damien   Before we get into the podcast, let me remind everyone that SGV Connect is supported by Foothill Transit, offering car-free travel throughout the San Gabriel Valley with connections to the new Gold Line Stations across the Foothills and Commuter Express lines traveling into the heart of downtown L.A. To plan your trip, visit Foothill Transit. “Foothill Transit. Going Good Places.”   Hello, welcome to SGV Connect episode 127. My name's Damien Newton. We have a bit of a throwback episode here in that I am doing it on my own - or well, I'm not on my own, I have a guest: Melanie Curry, the editor of Streetsblog California, who's going to give us an update on legislation that has been passed and is awaiting the signature of the governor…hopefully.   We timed this episode to coincide with our Streetsblog San Francisco/California anniversary dinner next Thursday. If you'd like to join us on September 12, click here for more details.   And a link with all the information is in the email, excuse me, in the text of the story that accompanies this podcast. Boy, I'm struggling today, Melanie. I hope you're on your A game.    …and she gave a thumbs up. You guys can't see that because we're not recording the video.   All right. So it just so happens that the first couple pieces of legislation we want to talk about were authored and introduced by Senator Scott Wiener, who happens to be one of our guests of honor next week.   Isn't that an amazing coincidence? So why don't you start off by telling us a little bit about these two pieces of legislation? And again, these are passed by the legislature, but awaiting signature or possibly something worse from the governor.   Melanie Oh, we don't want it to be worse.    This is one of the reasons that we are giving a Streetsie to Senator Scott Wiener - because he got SB 960, a complete streets bill, passed… again. He's tried three times with this bill and last time it was vetoed by the governor. So we're crossing our fingers that that doesn't happen again.   It's a little bit different this time around. Caltrans pushed just as hard against it as it had in the past. They keep saying, “we're already making complete streets a priority.”   Damien …um…are they already making complete streets a priority?   Melanie It's hard to say. At the headquarters level, their talk is good, but how it comes out on the ground is a different story. CalBike is working on a report about that very issue, which they're not quite ready to release, but we'll find out soon what they have to say.    At any rate, Caltrans says they have a complete streets policy. But they're not really doing it. So what happened with SB 960 is Caltrans pushed back. They got language that they are more comfortable with, which is kind of similar to what they already have: they'll make complete streets when they are working on maintenance projects where feasible, which still gives them kind of a lot of outs.    However, the bill is a lot stronger than last time around. It specifically includes a requirement to create a transit priority policy at Caltrans - which is a huge difference. It requires better transparency, so Caltrans has to report on their complete streets and how much money they're putting into it.    It also requires them to come up with a shorter encroachment permit process - which sounds really wonky and kind of is - but it makes it easier for cities to make their own changes on their streets if they want to build a bike lane or something like that without having to go through  the onerous process that Caltrans makes them do..    Anyway, it's been passed. We've got our fingers crossed. It's not the solution, but it's a really good step in the right direction for making Caltrans make complete streets on all of their facilities when they are repairing them..Not freeways, but all the other ones.   Damien If this is a stronger piece of legislation than last time, doesn't it seem less likely that Governor Newsom will sign it?   Melanie Well, it's interesting. It's stronger in ways that are outside of the when and where. It's stronger because it has transit priority, which it didn't before. It's stronger because it calls for better transparency and a shorter permit process. But in terms of requiring when and where complete streets are to be incorporated into Caltrans projects, it's really similar to what the current Caltrans policy is.    It's kind of an interesting argument. [Newsom] said “give Caltrans a chance” when he vetoed a similar bill in the past. But at that time, there was a new Caltrans director. So they got a chance. That was four years ago. They had their chance. We haven't seen any results. So we're back with this bill.   I think it will take something to get the governor to sign it, but it might not be as onerous as it would have been four years ago. I mean, weigh in, call the governor! I don't know. It definitely needed support to get passed by the legislature, but I think it has a better chance than the last one did.   Damien But that's not the only thing that Senator Wiener's done that has him on our list of “legislation to talk about today.” He's also done something with passive speed enforcement. You might need to explain this one a little bit.   I know you just did a story on it, and I read the story. I could totally talk about this if I had to, but, you know, people would rather hear you talk about it than me.   Melanie Are you sure?   Damien I assume.   Melanie I don't know. My voice can get a little whiny. No, it's not enforcement. It's assist. So it's in-car technology that tells people, hey, you've gone over the speed limit. And it does that with, like, a beep.    So this one was going to be a great bill. We were excited about it when Wiener first [introduced it] because he was looking for something more active - which is also a, technology that exists where … it prevents you from going over the speed limit. But that was just too crazy. So - not too crazy, it's a known and used technology. European cars have it. But there was too much pushback. So he said, “OK, passive speed limit assist technology in all new cars starting in 2030.”   And that passed. And you know it's better than nothing. A lot of new cars already have this technology…   Damien …almost every rental car too   Melanie It would be very surprising if it didn't get passed. It's a help. There's actually surveys that show that drivers like it.   And what's really strange to me is that about six or seven Republican legislators in California wrote this strongly worded letter to Governor Newsom telling him to veto it because enforcement is a better way to [handle this issue]. And they said it puts an “undue burden on the majority of responsible drivers,” which, uh, wait a minute.   Damien Wait, but they're speeding, right?   Melanie Yeah. Yet it's an “undue burden.” Like it's going to beep at you. Like one beep. It's only a one-time notification. So I don't know where they get any of that, “Undue burden on responsible drivers?”    If you're going over the speed limit, wouldn't you want [your car] to tell you? I don't know. I really don't know where this comes from. I imagine all of them just want to speed like crazy for as long as they want to.   Damien These are the people that obviously rent rental cars and then speed in them.   Melanie And they don't like that one beep.   Damien They don't like that beep…Not that I know from my recent road trip what that sounds like.   Melanie Does it continue or is it just one [sound]?   Damien I think it depends. The car that we had, it beeped every time you went 10 miles over the speed limit. So, we obviously heard it once and then adjusted our driving for the rest of the drive across the country because, yeah.   Melanie Yeah. Right. Which is what people want. You know, like what if you're in a place that you don't know? What if you're driving in Oregon and there might be a cop that's going to pull you over?   Damien Or what if the speed limit drops and you miss the sign?   Melanie Exactly.   Damien If we drove through a county and you know at the speed limit dropped 10 miles an hour, and then all of a sudden we went from driving roughly the speed limit to driving 10 miles over the speed limit…that's where we were.   Melanie And that's where you're likely to get a ticket, too. So it's really helpful to be told by your car.   Damien Was it the ticket lobby that was against this?   Melanie You know, I don't know who those people are. I don't know if they're a lobby. They're just Republicans. I could find the letter and read you their names if you want, but they're Republican legislators who just hated it.   Damien I'm just flashing back, as I always do, to the efforts to set the speed limit…legislation that we fought for for so long and finally got passed by Laura Friedman a couple of years ago, and the dumb arguments we would hear about it.   Melanie Yeah, it's weird to me…. I'm looking at some of the names of the people that signed it, and I have to say some of them say some really dumb things in the hearings.   So I don't want to say they're dumb, but they're not very well informed.   Damien We can say that if you want to.   Melanie And this letter proves that…And they have an agenda that doesn't make a lot of sense.    Just the idea there, they are law-and-order Republicans and for some reason they really love the idea of giving people tickets to enforce this [issue]. I don't understand their thinking. I have the feeling that's not going to have much sway with Governor Newsom. Who knows?   Damien I mean, you never know these days. And he's been… he's been more conservative in the past year than I would have thought.   Melanie Yeah.  I'm not a politician for a reason. I don't understand the way you think about things when you're a politician. It's not always logical.   Damien Speaking of not always logical, let's talk about a bill that had to do with when you can and can't paint sharrows that was passed, but without the support of its initial sponsor, Streets for All…So what happened there?   Melanie Gosh, who knows. So, this is SB 1216 from Catherine Blakespear.   This was also a[similar]  provision in another bill from Laura Friedman, AB 2290, but that one was just held back. It didn't go anywhere.    So what this was trying to do was limit the use of Class III bike routes, which are, you know, they are signs and sharrows painted in the street, at most. They might just be signs, but they were really trying to get away from calling those even bike routes. People like Caltrans will put them down and say, “look, we made you a bike route.” But they don't really have any kind of good standards for when they use them, so the legislature tried to limit their use..    Plus, [the sponsors] wanted to eliminate funding for those projects. And actually, they sort of succeeded. When it was in the Assembly [Transportation} Committee, the bill was amended to restrict sharrows to roads that are 30 miles an hour or slower.    Imagine riding your bike at, what, 10 miles an hour on a 30 mile an hour road, and there's a sharrow there telling you to go ahead and use it. So whoever decided that 30 miles an hour or slower made sense is not a bike rider. And [the committee] would not remove any limitation on using bike route signs, so they can mark a bike route wherever they want, which doesn't also doesn't make sense.    Thinking of fast streets in the San Fernando Valley, for example, they could just call those bike routes. So when you look on Google Maps, it's going to tell you to go that way…and you get out there and you're like, “ah, I don't want to ride this road.”    It was so bad that the sponsor, Streets for All, just gave up. But! One good thing about that bill is it does have a provision that says that … Active Transportation Program projects can no longer use [ATP funds] for Class III bike routes, after January 2026.    I have a feeling that it doesn't really do that much anymore because the people who run the program are pretty aware of what makes a good bike route or a good bike project, and Class III doesn't really count. However, Caltrans is still going to use class III bike routes and claim credit for creating bike facilities. We have to keep our eye on that.   Damien One piece of legislation that we covered in our Santa Monica publication is Malibu would now be able to put speed cameras on the PCH as part of the pilot program.   There's a lot of reasons this is interesting.    A) that so many communities want to get in on a pilot program. There were three cities in Senator Ben Allen's district, but only Malibu made it on this piece of legislation.  B) is the need for this extremely complicated pilot program that a year after the legislation was passed, no cities actually have speed cameras up. Yet they're allowing other cities - and yet we [already] know from the entire rest of the world that speed cameras work - to join this complicated pilot program.   Do you want to talk at all about this legislation, what it actually does, and if maybe I took all of the thunder away on the interesting things, tell me to be a better interviewer. But if I did not, then fill in some other interesting things about this.   Melanie SB 1297 from Senator Ben Allen adds the city of Malibu to the speed camera pilot program that was created by AB 645 last year. That was from assemblymember Laura Friedman that allowed Glendale, LA, Long Beach, San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco to do pilot programs with a limited number of cameras under all these really tight restrictions about where they could be, how they could be deployed, how they collected information from them, how they gave tickets, and they had to keep the the tickets out of the court system, and the fines had to be low and all kinds of really really tight restrictions.   None of those cities, as far as I can tell, have put up any cameras yet.   San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose have chosen locations for them, but they're not going to install them until next year. I can't find out about the other cities. At any rate, the city of Malibu will be able to add five cameras along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu [under this bill].   So what do we do about all the other cities like Santa Monica that might also want to put up speed cameras? They're all gonna have to wait. There's so much pushback from privacy groups and law enforcement, all these people who object to these programs. For law enforcement, this will make their life easier, but okay, whatever.   Damien The whole thing baffles me. Allen introduced this after there was a high profile crash that killed a bunch of Pepperdine students standing on the side of the road late last year. The PCH in Malibu has always been a safety disaster for bicyclists, for pedestrians, for car drivers, for everyone. Allen tried to address this - there are several different project programs that are going on, educational programs, enforcement programs…this effort was sort of added on to those.   But as soon as he announced it, all the other cities in his district were like, “ooh, us too, us too.”   Because cities want these. It just feels weird to me that the state is making it so hard, with a cumbersome pilot program and only certain cities.   This feels like an effort to keep them out, not an effort to promote them.   Melanie Yeah. What's fascinating to me about it is one of the arguments - which is a valid argument - against this was that street design is a more [effective] way to slow people down.   Yes, it's true. So one of the provisions in the original bill is that other street design changes had to be made. And especially if they put up a camera and it didn't slow speeds, then they had to make those street design changes.    Well, PCH really needs some design changes. And the ones – the responses that they have [had] to that crash are just pathetic. I'm sorry, they put up speed feedback signs and they put up signs. Education, enforcement, those are fine, but those are not the kinds of things that make people slow down or actually change the street so that people have to drive slow.   We just have so much resistance to creating calm streets. And because the PCH is such a heavily used thruway, people want to zoom on it. It doesn't make sense for people to be zooming on it. But it's just part of our speed culture that we just can't change [yet]. It's a bummer.   Damien I say romantic, I don't necessarily mean romance; but how many pop culture references over the years feature the hero or heroine in their convertible speeding up the PCH?   Melanie Absolutely. It's glamorized for sure.   I say people who want to go fast and feel the wind in their hair should roll their windows down and stick their heads out the window while they drive and feel the wind that way because it feels like you're going fast even if you're going like 20 miles an hour.   Damien Is it a little weird to hear the argument that it's road design that really slows streets down so we can't…we shouldn't do speed cameras 10 minutes after we were just discussing how Caltrans doesn't want to be mandated to do safe road design.   Melanie Yeah, we're in a very strange tangle trying to make sense out of all of this.   I mean, we can see it, advocates can see it. But the arguments can be complicated. I maintain hope that we will prevail sooner or later. And it's partly because we have super smart people working on these issues. But man, it's not easy. It's not easy.   Damien There was one more piece of major legislation we wanted to talk about before we might run down some of the other pieces, and that was what's been going on with e-bikes. It doesn't appear like there's much of an effort to make statewide e-bike policy. Instead, it's an effort to define what different communities can and can't do.   Melanie Yeah, and I wouldn't even call these major legislation.   Both of the authors of these two e-bike bills, [Assemblymembers] Tasha Boerner and Damon Connolly, had started off with bills that were going to require a license to ride e-bikes, at least class 2 or class 3 e-bikes. I'll go over the classifications in a minute. They're all about speed and throttle and stuff like that. But it became pretty clear those bills were not going anywhere. So both of them changed them.    In Boerners case San Diego and in Donnelly's case Marin County - they allow local jurisdictions to create e-bike restrictions.    Borners would allow San Diego to pass an ordinance banning children under 12 and from riding class 1 or 2 e-bikes. You have to be 18 to ride a class three e-bike [already]. What is a class 3 e-bike? Let's see, [it's] a little complicated: You have to use the pedals. You can't use just the motor, but it can go up to like 28 miles per hour using pedals.   You have to be 18 to ride that kind of bike. So Boerner wants it to change it so no one under 12 can ride a class 1 e-bike, which has a little bit of pedal assist up to 20 miles an hour at the most, or class 2, which has a throttle assist up to 20 miles per hour. And then after that, you would have to use your pedals, but [a class 2] could go 28 miles per hour.   Connelly has a similar bill, but he doesn't want anyone under 16 [to ride]. So [his bill would] allow Marin to pass an ordinance to require people to be at least 16 to ride a class 2 e-bike. And they could, if they wanted to, [also] pass an ordinance requiring any e-bike rider to wear a helmet. Even adults.    So it's a problem because they're inconsistent. They're local ordinances. Local helmet ordinances from the get-go are a bad idea. There's a lot of people from Berkeley who ride into Marin. So like, what are they going to do suddenly? There's a different law for them over there?   Damien I remember down here when one city was talking about banning scooters and others weren't, and it was like, well, what's gonna happen to someone riding on a scooter when they cross a border…Is it just gonna, like, stop?   Melanie Yeah. Well, yeah, actually they can. They do put speed limiters on scooters! Not cars…not cars where they could really do some good.    Those [bills] are like mostly annoying. They both passed, though. They're on the governor's desk. He may well sign them. Whether San Diego and Marin County passed those ordinances is a different question.   Another e-bike bill was from Senator Dave Min, which is kind of [an] interesting [one]. First it says that any e-bike sold in California has to have an e-bike battery that is certified to be safe, either the UL or the EU certification [or the like]. People are worried about battery fires and that would prevent that.   It's not without its controversy because when they were talking battery standards for the e-bike incentive program, there were a lot of bike sellers who were mad about that. They were selling bikes that didn't have that certification. And they were like, “they're fine!    But anyway, that passed. So if he signs it, they'd have to be certified.   And then the other thing that [the bill] did was clarify the definition of e-bikes. The reason that was an issue was because there is at least one manufacturer that makes these bikes that they sell as class 2 ebikes.    So class 2 has a throttle assist and you can go with the throttle up to 20. With pedaling you can go up to 28 miles an hour. So they were selling these as class 2 e-bikes, but they had a switch on them that would allow them to go “off-road.” [That would allow them to] go way faster with just the throttle, which means they're basically mopeds. Min's bill made those illegal. If  you sell something that's switchable, it's not an e-bike.   Wait, it's not illegal. It's a moped, which means, you know, age restriction and helmet restriction, etc. Because if you can go over 28 with a throttle, it…Yeah, that's not an e-bike.   And the thing is, like, how do you enforce that?   Can a cop tell from looking at it whether a bike is an actual class 2 e-bike or is it something else?   Damien So let's try and run down the rest of the legislation we had that we were going to at least touch on today.   Melanie Just a few things…One thing that passed that I think is really important because it makes me nervous is Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry worked really hard to get a bill passed that said you could not have any autonomous vehicle big rigs being tested on California roads unless there was a human operator present.   It was amazing how hard she had to argue for this.   Newsom had vetoed a similar bill last year, so he may veto this again. But meanwhile, the DMV is already … starting to put out draft regulations… for autonomous big rigs.   Isn't that fun to think about: driving on a road like Highway 5 and knowing the truck next to you has nobody in it?   If he signs this, there will have to at least be a person in the vehicle.   Damien Yeah, he's not, he's not signing that, I bet.   Melanie Maybe I can just like curl up in a ball and stay home for the rest of my life. Or they hurry up with that train so I don't ever have to get on a highway again.   Damien You saw the video? I mean, it looks like it's just about finished.   Melanie Uh no… but okay it's happening.   I would say one more more [bill] that's kind of cool is AB 2503 which gives a CEQA exemption for zero emission trains. There's a problem with that, of course, as it's another way that they're poking holes in CEQA instead of just reforming CEQA, and also it specifically says zero emission trains and people are still calling hydrogen trains zero-emission trains, and they don't understand why I refuse to do that. So, okay…a CEQA exemption for clean energy trains.   We need that, but still it's not great.   Senator Blakespear had got passed SB 689 so that you would not need to conduct a study to convert a vehicle lane into a bike or a transit lane in coastal areas. That was specifically to overcome problems with the Coastal Commission process.    And then there's another one, AB 3177. Streets for All sponsored it, and it's a little wonky. It says that you cannot require a new housing project to pay a mitigation fee to be used towiden a road. So that's big. And then there's one more, AB 2086, which calls for more transparency from Caltrans -  they have to create a dashboard that shows their funding which is very complicated   None of these have been signed, however.   Damien Right. None of these have been signed. Based on previous years, some of them might not be slam dunks, but if people have heard anything today that they want to weigh in on - again, you can contact your governor. Sorry. It's a little play of words off the, you know, contact your representative today. Contact your governor. It's the same governor I have. I think he's in state right now. So it's a good time to get him   So again, if you want to talk to us about this in person, we will be in San Francisco next week at Manny's in the Mission at 6 PM on Thursday. Feel free to stop by. Feel free to buy a ticket. Feel free to say hello. More information on that event is on Streetsblog California and Streetsblog  San Francisco, and of course, links to all of that are included with the text that accompanies this podcast.    Thank you for your time today, Melanie, and we will talk to you again probably at the end of the year. We'll talk about which of these bills have been signed and not signed and what we're looking forward to in 2025, which is getting closer.

As Vandenberg Space Force base launches fill the skies of the central coast, residents have been both amazed and concerned. As the base aims to increase these launches, the California Coastal commission has its own concerns about the space effort. The Coastal Commission held a meeting today, August 8th, to discuss their regulations on Vandenberg. Tensions were high.

This week Paul Mark and Dan discuss: Tin Cannery impact on tax revenue The Wild Fish owner's back taxes Wave street Studio gets liquor license County Sheriff PG council's inquiry rule detailing interaction between council members and city employees. The selection process for a new city manager is discussed, with emphasis on finding a candidate who can work effectively with citizens and employees. There were over 30 applications for the Lovers Point grill concessionaire role.

We take a look at reform efforts for the California Coastal Commission. Also, we hear about one woman's tragic story highlighting a mental health care system still in need of fixing.

For more than 50 years, the California Coastal Commission has been tasked with protecting the state's coastline from unchecked development, but critics say the commission has gotten too powerful and is working against the state's housing and climate goals. In other news, a running club by and for women of color has taken off in south San Diego. Plus, the Clippers minor league is coming to San Diego.

Kicking off 2024, I've got a great Customer Spotlight guest mix from West Coast vinyl veteran, John Kimble / Thicc Glasses. Originally from LA, John grew up in the underground warehouse party scene in Seattle in the early 90's. A drummer and an avid fan of all things musical, with early influences by the rhythm sections of classic rock, hip hop, ska, industrial, avant garde, and the west coast dance music sounds of Jeno, Garth and the Wicked crew. Drawing inspiration from the early Uk tech house pioneers and a member of LA's The Coastal Commission and ex-vinyl-peddler from Beat Non Stop, John Kimble started playing and collecting records in 1994 and remains faithful to the craft of long seamless mixes to create a unique sound and a hypnotic listening experience. John's put together a flawless blend of minimal tunes... all vinyl, of course! Full t/l here: https://undergroundvinylsource.com/blogs/news/uvs-podcast-ep041-feat-john-kimble Follow John: @user-502404892 Insta: https://www.instagram.com/johnkimble_udm

Magnus sits down (as a follow-up to the recent episode with Marcus Foster) with David Smiley, a Big Sur local with many years of experience serving on the LUAC (the Big Sur land use advisory committee). Brief cameo appearance from David's bunk buddy Mary Ann Vasconcellos! >>>>>Episode 80 with Marcus FosterKeep Big Sur WildBig Sur Multi Agency CouncilBig Sur Land Use Plan Update (draft)Big Sur Land Use Advisory Committee (LUAC)It is with gratitude and sadness we remember Mary Trotter who passed on September 7.  In this issue of the Carmel Pine Cone you can read about Mary............SUPPORT THE LIBRARY AND PODCAST AT MONTEREY COUNTY GIVES!.............Our discussion takes a deeper look at the enforcement of the Big Sur land use plan. The roles of the Monterey County, the Coastal Commission, and local groups in these preservation efforts. We touch upon the significance of political engagement, the noticeable absence of a dedicated defender for the plan, and the rise of the group Keep Big Sur Wild.We conclude our episode with a brief chat about memorable experiences and cultural events in Big Sur. From the BiGSuRCuS event to the Poetry in Motion event.It's not just about the land; it's about the spirit of Big Sur which is celebrated through events like these. Join us as we celebrate the unique beauty of Big Sur, the community's efforts to protect it, and our hopes for its future preservation. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in land use, preservation, and the extraordinary character of Big Sur. Support the show_________________________________________________This podcast is a production of the Henry Miller Memorial LibraryBig Sur, CAFaceBookInstagramLet us know what you think!SEND US AN EMAIL!

In this episode, The Indy host, Rebecca Fairweather, sits down with Assemblymember Gregg Hart to discuss concerns over the environment and the ongoing housing crisis.The Assemblymember has recently restarted ‘Sidewalk Office Hours' that is available in twelve communities across the central coast including; Orcutt, Guadalupe, Goleta, Santa Barbara, Vandenberg Village, Lompoc, Solvang, Montecito, Summerland, Nipomo, Santa Maria, and Buellton.During his ongoing tenure, Assemblyman Hart has authored numerous bills addressing concerns ranging from the environment to affordable housing. Recently two bills addressing environmental concerns, authored by the Assemblyman, have been approved by California Governor, Gavin Newsom. Assembly Bill 584 allows state and local agencies the ability to aid in the protection of life and property alongside restoration and cleanup as a result of natural disasters. The bill allows the Coastal Commission more flexibility to issue emergency waivers. Assemblyman Hart also introduced AB 631 which increases penalties and enforcement options, empowering state and local enforcement to shut down oil companies with chronic compliance issues.To contact the Assemblyman, visit https://a37.asmdc.org/contact.Hosted by Rebecca Fairweather.Image Caption: Assemblymember Gregg Hart being sworn into the California State Assembly on December 5, 2022. (Courtesy image)The Indy: A Podcast was co-created by Molly McAnany and the Santa Barbara Independent.The theme music was written by Molly McAnany.Follow ‘The Indy' on social media @theindypod to support and contact podcast@independent.com for advertisements.

In May, we provided you with an overview of Local Coastal Plans and the over 3 million in Coastal Commission grants awarded to Point Arena, Fort Bragg and the County to study the impacts of Sea Level Rise in the coastal zone.  Point Arena received their grant funding of 100,000 dollars in August of 2022 to study the Arena Cove.  Last week at a Grass Roots Institute meeting, Louis White, an engineer hired by the city presented the findings of their vulnerability assessment.White explained the goals of the draft study detailed sea level rise expectations from Ocean Pacific Council and State of California and showed where flooding and other damage is expected to occur.Mendocino County received over 2 million in grants in April of 2023.  They are still in the planning process but have issued requests for proposals for visual and archeological impacts, Highway 1 traffic impacts and groundwater impacts.  The deadline for the proposals is late October.  The City of Fort Bragg which received $900,000 in grants released a communication engagement plan with the Noyo Harbor District which can be accessed at www.NoyoOceanCollective.org.  The Grass Roots Institute is also seeking volunteers to adopt a portion of the coast to monitor and document changes.  For more information contact Peter McNamee through their website.

For all who joined the 100% Free Financing Webinar, thank you! And for those interested in the Empowered Mentoring program, reach out to us today! Next webinar is coming soon! Today Jason has a fascinating conversation with Tobias Peter, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Housing Center. Jason discovers that the housing shortage could be worse. Plus, Tobias talks about the one solution to the country's shortage problem- the federal government's non-participation in the housing sector. Because all throughout history of the government's involvement, it has done so towards unintended negative consequences. Key Takeaways: Jason's editorial 0:45 Welcome Tobias Peter 1:22 “How to lie with statistics” – US existing home sales 4:13 Sales volume: US existing home sales 4:51 Same chart, different starting point 5:39 One million starting point 7:46 100% Zero down financing webinar replay is coming soon and join our Empowered Mentoring program Tobias Peter interview 8:40 AEI Housing Market Indicators (HMI) and Purchase activity outlook given headwinds 9:36 YOY Home Price Appreciation (HPA) 11:40 YOY Home Price Appreciation (HPA) by Metro (60 largest) 13:58 Geography is less meaningful than it's ever been in human history 16:15 HPA: December 2023 and 2024 projections 17:56 The problem with the Case-Schiller Index 20:01 Housing inventory and month's supply- we are far from a housing crash 22:43 A positive sign- from California 25:30 The infamous Coastal Commission in California 27:48 A quarter century of mortgage risk 28:31  FHA loans- setting minorities up for failure 30:41 We have a better alternative Find Tobias at https://www.aei.org/centers/housing-center/   Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Twitter.com/JasonHartmanROI Instagram.com/jasonhartman1/ Linkedin.com/in/jasonhartmaninvestor/ Call our Investment Counselors at: 1-800-HARTMAN (US) or visit: https://www.jasonhartman.com/ Free Class:  Easily get up to $250,000 in funding for real estate, business or anything else: http://JasonHartman.com/Fund CYA Protect Your Assets, Save Taxes & Estate Planning: http://JasonHartman.com/Protect Get wholesale real estate deals for investment or build a great business – Free Course: https://www.jasonhartman.com/deals Special Offer from Ron LeGrand: https://JasonHartman.com/Ron Free Mini-Book on Pandemic Investing: https://www.PandemicInvesting.com  

For all who joined the 100% Free Financing Webinar, thank you! And for those interested in the Empowered Mentoring program, reach out to us today! Next webinar is coming soon! Today Jason has a fascinating conversation with Tobias Peter, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Housing Center. Jason discovers that the housing shortage could be worse. Plus, Tobias talks about the one solution to the country's shortage problem- the federal government's non-participation in the housing sector. Because all throughout history of the government's involvement, it has done so towards unintended negative consequences.  Key Takeaways: Jason's editorial 1:23 Welcome Tobias Peter 2:04 "How to lie with statistics" - US existing home sales 4:55 Sales volume: US existing home sales 5:33 Same chart, different starting point 6:21 One million starting point 8:28 100% Zero down financing webinar replay is coming soon and join our Empowered Mentoring program Tobias Peter interview Part 1 9:22 AEI Housing Market Indicators (HMI) and Purchase activity outlook given headwinds  10:19 YOY Home Price Appreciation (HPA) 12:22 YOY Home Price Appreciation (HPA) by Metro (60 largest) 14:40 Geography is less meaningful than it's ever been in human history 16:58 HPA: December 2023 and 2024 projections 18:39 The problem with the Case-Schiller Index 20:44 Housing inventory and month's supply- we are far from a housing crash 23:25 A positive sign- from California  26:13 The infamous Coastal Commission in California 28:30 A quarter century of mortgage risk 29:13  FHA loans- setting minorities up for failure 31:23 We have a better alternative   Find Tobias at https://www.aei.org/centers/housing-center/   Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Twitter.com/JasonHartmanROI Instagram.com/jasonhartman1/ Linkedin.com/in/jasonhartmaninvestor/ Call our Investment Counselors at: 1-800-HARTMAN (US) or visit: https://www.jasonhartman.com/ Free Class:  Easily get up to $250,000 in funding for real estate, business or anything else: http://JasonHartman.com/Fund CYA Protect Your Assets, Save Taxes & Estate Planning: http://JasonHartman.com/Protect Get wholesale real estate deals for investment or build a great business – Free Course: https://www.jasonhartman.com/deals Special Offer from Ron LeGrand: https://JasonHartman.com/Ron Free Mini-Book on Pandemic Investing: https://www.PandemicInvesting.com

Two weeks ago the California Coastal Commission approved the much debated desalination plant proposed by California American Water. Despite the approval, it could be years before construction begins.

This week Paul and Mark discuss the results of the November election for mayor and council in Monterey, PG & Salinas. They also discuss the Coastal Commission's 8-2 vote approving the Cal Am desal project for Marina

"California approves large, controversial desalination plant for Monterey Peninsula A desalination plant proposed for the drought-fatigued Monterey Peninsula was approved Thursday night by the California Coastal Commission. The vote by the powerful regulatory agency comes amid increasing controvers" "--START AD- #TheMummichogblogOfMalta Amazon Top and Flash Deals(Affiliate Link - You will support our translations if you purchase through the following link) - https://amzn.to/3CqsdJH Compare all the top travel sites in just one search to find the best hotel deals at HotelsCombined - awarded world's best hotel price comparison site. (Affiliate Link - You will support our translations if you purchase through the following link) - https://www.hotelscombined.com/?a_aid=20558 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."""" #Jesus #Catholic. Smooth Radio Malta is Malta's number one digital radio station, playing Your Relaxing Favourites - Smooth provides a ‘clutter free' mix, appealing to a core 35-59 audience offering soft adult contemporary classics. We operate a playlist of popular tracks which is updated on a regular basis. https://smooth.com.mt/listen/ Follow on Telegram: https://t.me/themummichogblogdotcom END AD---" "y over the role that desalination should play in addressing water shortages not only on the Central Coast, but across the state. The project, which would draw seawater off the coast of the city of Marina (Monterey County), put a spotlight both on the marvel of creating freshwater from the boundless ocean as well as the many problems associated with the technology, which include environmental impacts, energy consumption and, most fundamentally, cost. In the end, the Coastal Commission's governing board decided that the benefit of a new water supply outweighed the proposal's downsides. Concerns about environmental justice loomed large over the often passionate, 13-hour hearing in Salinas on Thursday, namely that the desalination plant would drive up water rates for people who can't afford it, and that the seawater would be pumped from Marina, one of the region's less-affluent communities and not a benefactor of the project. “It's clear: I think we've heard it over and over again (that) a drought-resistant water supply is necessary,” said commissioner Meagan Harmon, who was on the winning side of the board's 8-2 vote. Only a dozen desalination facilities currently operate along the California coast, and the majority are very small. The $300 million-plus project proposed by the privately owned California American Water would be bigger than most, providing up to 40% of the supply for the city of Monterey, the seaside communities of Carmel-by-the-Sea and Pebble Beach and a handful of other cities and towns. The main sticking point with the proposal was the expense. While Cal Am declined to provide The Chronicle clarity on the plant's price tag, the company said the investment would require raising customer bills about 50%, from an average $102 per household monthly to about $150. The increase worried many in the region's poorer communities, despite pledges by Cal Am to limit the rate hike for low-income residents. The Coastal Commission's staff, in their review of the project, called the higher bills, alongside the project's location in Marina, the biggest environmental justice concerns the agency had faced since implementing an environmental justice policy in 2019. Many in Marina made clear that their community did not want an industrial facility that wouldn't serve them on their coast. Several civic leaders in the region even argued that the plant, and its water, wasn't necessary for the Monterey Peninsula. “Cal Am doesn't seem to care that they're impacting a disadvantaged community of color,” said Marina Mayor Pro Tempore Kathy Biala. “A decision here today has the power to harm our cities for decades.” The project, however, was wide

"Wyndham to reopen as Pierside Santa Monica Hotel in 2023 The Wyndham Hotel on the Esplanade near the Santa Monica Pier closed up shop earlier this year and the structure has spent the past several months in a cocoon of scaffolding, but it will soon emerge as the upscale Pierside Santa Monica, a bou" "--START AD- #TheMummichogblogOfMalta Amazon Top and Flash Deals(Affiliate Link - You will support our translations if you purchase through the following link) - https://amzn.to/3CqsdJH Compare all the top travel sites in just one search to find the best hotel deals at HotelsCombined - awarded world's best hotel price comparison site. (Affiliate Link - You will support our translations if you purchase through the following link) - https://www.hotelscombined.com/?a_aid=20558 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."" #Jesus #Catholic. END AD---" "tique hotel. The 60-year-old hotel, which occupies a prime spot steps from the foot of the Pier, is undergoing an extensive renovation in preparation for an opening expected in early 2023. Part of that renovation includes converting an existing 1,202-square-foot restaurant into an extended lobby area, plus the construction of an 829-square-foot uncovered wooden deck in the adjacent public right-of-way. The application for the renovations was submitted by Felcor Santa Monica Owner, LLC, evidently part of FelCor/RLJ Lodging Trust, a multi-billion dollar real estate investment trust that runs dozens of high-end and luxury hotels around the country. On Friday, Nov. 18, the California Coastal Commission was set to receive a report on a Coastal Development Permit waiver detailing the renovations, which are taking place within the Coastal Zone and therefore governed by the Coastal Act. “The project includes interior remodel of the ground floor to re-configure existing retail, restaurant, and lobby uses within the existing area, in addition to construction of a new deck with exterior restaurant service floor area,” according to a brief description provided in staff reports for the upcoming Coastal Commission hearing, which will take place in Salinas, Calif., and be live streamed. “The proposed deck will encroach 16.5-ft. into the existing 32.5-ft. wide public right-of-way, but the City has provided a letter of support for the proposed deck. The City wishes to alleviate sidewalk congestion on the other side of Ocean Avenue by drawing visitors to the proposed new restaurant area. The project will maintain a 16-ft. wide public right-of-way which exceeds ADA requirements. The reconfiguration of existing uses will not significantly increase the need for parking and the hotel is located within 0.5 mile of public transit.” LA County parcel maps state the existing 132-room hotel was constructed in 1966, prior to the passage of the Coastal Act. The hotel's 96 parking spaces would not be affected by the changes. According to California Coastal Commission Executive Director Jack Ainsworth and Coastal Program Analyst Chloe Seifert, the proposed changes are in line with the City's Land Use Plan as well as previous Coastal Commission actions in the area. Although the Pierside was still under active construction as of mid-November, its website is live and shows images of sun-drenched Santa Monica Beach alongside mock-ups of future guest rooms and suites. The swimming pool area, which abuts the McClure Tunnel, appeared to have received a makeover, with the website touting an “outdoor saltwater pool” on top of other amenities like name-brand toiletries and bathrobes, plus complimentary reusable water bottles. Online reservations appeared to be open beginning in mid-January 2023, with hotel rooms ranging in price from $449 to $779 per night depending on room type and date. According to santamonica.com, luxury Santa Monica hotels feature average daily rates over $300, placing the Pierside squarely into the “luxury” range. emil

July 15, 2022--Victor Palomino, Sarah Reith and Alicia Bales of the KZYX Local News Team attend the California Coastal Commission Meeting in Fort Bragg and file this special report.

July 15, 2022--Alicia Bales reports from Fort Bragg on the Coastal Commission hearings and their upcoming tour of the GP Mill Site. She talks with KZYX News's Sarah Reith about uncovering the culture of violence at the Ukiah Police Department. And she gives an update on the ongoing contract negotiations between Mendocino County and SEIU 1021 with organizer Patrick Hickey, featuring voices of workers who showed up en masse at the Supervisors meeting this week to speak up for a fair COLA.

Dr. Ewing's podcast, Shorewords! is featured on the American Shoreline Podcast Network. Article - "Stanford researchers reveal add-on benefits of natural defenses against sea-level rise"

Dealing with sea level rise along the California coast is not going to be easy. One of the options that cities are encouraged to consider is something called “managed retreat.” In a nutshell, that's when homes are moved away from the coast as it crumbles toward the sea. With so many expensive California homes perched on oceanside cliffs, the idea has become very controversial. There's even debate over the use of the term “managed retreat.” (1)Hi, I'm Kathy Fettke and this is Real Estate News for Investors. If you like our podcast, please subscribe and leave us a review. Managed retreat is a concept that's been around for a while. It's been used after natural disasters that have flooded whole communities. As reported by the SF Chronicle, The town of Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin, began relocating about 600 homes in 1979, after the Kickapoo River had flooded 25 times. It cost more than $27 million in federal, state, and local funds to buy new land and move 70 buildings, including 24 homes.“Managed Retreat” to Fight Rising Sea LevelsNow, with increased concern about rising sea levels because of climate change, there's been more discussion about how to deal with it, and “managed retreat” is one of the options. But it's not being embraced by everyone. Managed retreat is something that goes against the desirability and value of oceanside real estate.As the Chronicle reports, it “represents a radical departure from decades of coastal development philosophy and runs counter to our proclivity to build houses and cities up against the ocean.” And now cities along the shore have a tremendous challenge to deal with. As UC Santa Cruz professor, Gary Griggs, puts it: “Dealing with sea level rise and (cliff) retreat… is the biggest challenge that human civilization may ever have to face.”The Cost of California Sea Level RiseIn a 2019 study that was published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers estimated that sea level rise along California's 1,271 mile-long coast could negatively impact $150 billion in property and 600,000 people. Two thirds of the impact is expected to hit the San Francisco Bay Area. But the same study predicts substantial erosion in Southern California over the next 80 years, and the disappearance of 67% of its beaches.California has already tried to fight erosion with other less aggressive measures such as seawalls, the reinforcing of cliffs, and the building of levees and jetties. Professor Griggs says the state has used these methods to protect about 10% of the coastline, but they are expensive and they don't last forever. They need maintenance and updating in the race to keep ahead of climate change.In some places, sand has been added to help keep the ocean at bay. The city of Santa Cruz has been doing this for decades. The Chronicle reports that Santa Cruz has dumped additional sand onto beaches 58 times since 1965. The price tag? Almost $18 million.Pacifica's Crumbling Cliff and Lost HomesOne well-known example of the need for the relocation of homes has made headlines in San Mateo County. Winter storms in 2010 and 2015 caused so much damage to the cliff along Esplanade Drive in Pacific, the city was forced to condemn, purchase, and demolish several homes and apartment complexes. But even in a situation like this, it is not easy to tell people they must relocate because homes are at risk of falling into the sea. In 2015, the Coastal Commission asked cities to study how they would deal with sea level rise. Pacifica considered the use of managed retreat but after feedback from the community, rejected it. The city council said that it did not align with the city's goals or the desires of the residents.SF State economist Philip King told the Chronicle: “When you ask people to leave their homes, even if you could fully compensate them 100% economically, you still would be pulling them away from their community.” He says: “It's an issue we're going to have to face in California.”The Term “Managed Retreat” Conveys “Defeat”The term “managed retreat” also sounds too much like “defeat” for some people. An article in Slate suggests changing the term to something more obscure like “managed realignment” or “planned relocation.” Or maybe something like “aggressive resilience” or “strategic advance” which sound more proactive. (2)One city that's embracing the idea of managed retreat is the city of Marina in Monterey County. Officials there have created a plan that allows for some amount of property relocation. That includes support from the owner of a beach resort who will have to move some buildings.One of the co-authors of a UC Santa Cruz paper on Marina said in the report: “So there are cases in which private property owners have seen the writing on the wall and they know that they're not going to be able to constantly rebuild their infrastructure after flooding and erosion. They are on board with the plan, and they want to help preserve the community.” (3)You can read more about this topic by following links in the show notes at newsforinvestors.com.Also, please remember to hit the subscribe button, and leave a review!You can also join our real estate investor network for free at newsforinvestors.com. That gives you access to the Investor Portal where you'll find information on rental markets and sample property pro-formas. You can also connect with our experienced investment counselors, property teams, lenders, 1031 exchange facilitators, attorneys, CPAs and more.Thanks for listening. I'm Kathy Fettke.Links:1 -https://www.sfchronicle.com/travel/article/California-coast-sea-level-rise-17091737.php2 -https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/managed-retreat-climate-change-language.html3 -https://www.eenews.net/articles/managed-retreat-unpopular-expensive-and-not-going-away/

The Not-So-Sweet Side of Sugar. That story and more on H2O Radio's weekly news report about water. Headlines: A long and salty battle in California has ended with the state's Coastal Commission unanimously rejecting a desalination plant in Orange County. The sugar industry has a sweetheart deal in Florida that critics say is polluting air and water. Cleaner air in Europe and North America has led to a surprising result—more hurricanes in the Atlantic. If a dish were labeled climate friendly on a restaurant menu, would you chose it to save the planet?

Humboldt's Las Vegas flight is going away at the start of May, the Coastal Commission advanced the idea of huge wind turbines off the Humboldt coast, app-enabled electric scooters are coming to Eureka, people allegedly tried to drive off with a baby seal in Eureka, Humboldt has the world's tallest tree but a viral post depicts the wrong tree, per-capita Humboldt County continues to struggle with adverse childhood experiences, a Fortuna High School teacher and coach was accused of sexually assaulting students, Stone Lagoon boasts the first tribally-operated State Parks visitor center, cops claim a young man said he'd clean up a burned up car he ditched on the river bar, an alleged wanted killer escaped cops in Arcata after a chase, environmental groups threatened to slow a development in the Cutten area, a heated cannabis-related exchange involving a County Supervisor, and more. Humboldt Last Week is Humboldt County's news podcast brought to you in collaboration with Beck's Bakery, Belle Starr Clothing, North Coast Co-op, Bongo Boy Studio, Photography by Shi, NCJ, RHBB, and KJNY. Subscribe via Apple, Spotify, and wherever else you get podcasts. Also: Alternative radio with no commercials and local nuggets. Follow the Instagram story for station fun. humboldtlastweek.com/radio Contact: myles@humboldtlastweek.com humboldtlastweek.com

Today on the Southern California Real Estate Report we have some good news for owners of vacation rentals.There is a delayed start to the short-term rental regulations.The Coastal Commission will have to approve the already voted on new regulations.This might not happen until the end of the year.The issue is that the Coastal Commission has the responsibility of ensuring that California beaches remain accessible for all and the new regulations might hinder access for some.

Hometown Radio 01/11/21 4p: Jim Suty from Friends of the Dunes challenges the Coastal Commission

With the drought worsening, might California want to toughen water restrictions? Wine aged in the ocean off of Santa Barbara? The Coastal Commission has concerns. Neil Saavedra joins Wayne for this week's Foodie Friday, highlighting what's to come at the Orange County Fair!

With the drought worsening, might California want to toughen water restrictions? Wine aged in the ocean off the coast of Santa Barbara? The Coastal Commission has concerns. Neil Saavedra joins Wayne for this week's Foodie Friday, highlighting what's to come at the Orange County Fair!

CA Surfrider Chapters  CA Coast and Ocean Legislation  Act Coastal  Are wind farms slowing each other down? 

Das Williams grew up poor in Isla Vista, dropped out of high school, lived in his RV for six months while attending Santa Barbara City College, and then met two professors, Dr. Manou Eskandari and Dr. John Kay, who instilled a belief in himself. Williams' SBCC experience helped his transfer to UC Berkeley and eventually UCSB. Williams served seven years on the Santa Barbara City Council, six years in the California State Assembly, and now is in his fifth year as a member of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. Williams tenure as county supervisor, however, has been marred, by allegations that sold out to the cannabis industry in exchange for support and financial donations. Williams says the county's cannabis policy legalized a black market industry and made it safer for use. Still Carpinteria residents complain of odors from cannabis growers. In this podcast, Williams also talks about his critics, his view on why his lost the Coastal Commission appointment, and how he handles adversity.

Surfrider's Coastal Blog $100 Billion Budget Surplus, 12 Bill Limitation: What’s Up With California? ACTION! Call or email your representative and tell them Coastal Commission funding is a priority, ask them to support the proposed funding in the legislative budget. (Find Your Rep) Olivia for the Ocean: Filtering Water Without Plastic Meet 5 NOAA Buoys! Beachapedia

This week, a look at California's budget surplus, how Governor Newsom proposes to help the coast with it and the question of why the state's primary coastal agency isn't included in this massive funding opportunity. Also, an report from Mandy on the Coastal Commission's May meeting and a simple swap from Olivia! California Budget ActCoastal – The Coastal Commission Accountability Site 10 Less Wasteful Options for Common Plastics Episode 85: Plastic Pollution Legislation 2021 Coast & Ocean Legislation Surfrider – Get Involved!

This week, host Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham head out to the West Coast to look at coastal management in the Golden State. Joining the show is Dr. Charles Lester, the director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Center in the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara. Dr. Lester previously worked for the State of California and the California Coastal Commission for twenty years, including serving as the agency’s fourth executive director from 2011 to 2016. Charles is an expert in integrated coastal management and California coastal law and policy. He has extensive experience in California, including managing or directing hundreds of coastal planning and regulatory projects for the Coastal Commission. In 2015, he led the agency's completion of California's first comprehensive land use guidance for addressing sea level rise and coastal protection on the outer coast (Sea Level Rise—Adopted Policy Guidance). Charles speaks regularly on coastal management, adaptation and resilience, including recently as part of a Congressional briefing on “west coast resilience” (Charles Lester at EESI).

We look at three bills that would help save California's coast, preview this week's Coastal Commission meeting (oh, Malibu!), ask you to take action to stop new offshore oil drilling (yep, still at it!) and offer an inspiring FACTOID about a novel way to help the ocean. Links below! California Coast & Ocean Legislation ActCoastal, the Coastal Commission Accountability Project ACTION ALERT! Tell the Biden Administration you oppose new offshore oil drilling FACTOID: Reducing ocean acidification by removing CO2

Hometown Radio 03/17/21 4p: Bonnie Ernst and Charles Varni preview Thursday's meeting of the Coastal Commission

Hometown Radio 03/17/21 4p: Bonnie Ernst and Charles Varni preview Thursday's meeting of the Coastal Commission

Coastal Commission could decide fate of Oceano Dunes off-road riding Surfrider D.C. Hill Day to Protect Our Coast and Ocean Torrential Rains Drench Hawaii Beachapedia Pack a Go Bag Now Build an Emergency Kit

Brian & Seth discuss local Orange County News and provide 2 different, generational points of View, like protecting a berm and what the OC Fair will look like in 2021.HeadlineSeth - Laguna Beach environmentalists ask Coastal Commission for enforcement to protect Aliso Beach bermWeb - https://www.ocregister.com/2020/12/02/laguna-beach-environmentalists-ask-coastal-commission-for-enforcement-to-protect-aliso-beach-berm/“OC Real-Estate with Daniel Preszler”HeadlineBrian - 2021 plans for the OC FairWeb - https://www.ocregister.com/2020/12/02/oc-fair-plans-for-live-2021-event-with-fewer-guests-and-attractions/This Day in HistoryNational Bartender DayNational Bartender Day recognizes the servers who not only know every cocktail in the book but who also tend to be some of the best listeners around. Also known as National Bartender Appreciation Day, the observance takes a day to raise a toast to the men and women working the late nights.Web - https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-bartender-day-first-friday-in-december/“What's Coming to Theaters this week?” with Jay Sherer“Feel Good Friday with Tina AndersonEventsBrian - 112th Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade & Holiday Lights CruisesWeb - https://www.facebook.com/events/340675714020253Seth - Holiday Outdoor Ice-Skating 2020: Paséa Hotel, Huntington BeachWeb - https://patch.com/california/ranchosantamargarita/calendar/event/20201206/943053/holiday-outdoor-ice-skating-2020-pasa-hotel-huntington-beachLinksJay Sherer, “What’s Coming to Theaters this Week”Storytelling ExecutiveThe Reclamation SocietyThe Story Geeks PodcastTina Anderson, Feel Good Fridayfb - https://www.facebook.com/tinaandersonOC/ig - https://www.instagram.com/tinaandersonoc/Web - https://tinaandersonoc.com/Drive Time OCWeb - https://sitchradio.com/our-shows/drive-time-oc/Twitter - https://twitter.com/DriveTimeOCInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/drivetimeoc/TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@drivetimeocDownload the “Drive Time OC” AppAndroid - http://bit.ly/38ifo2JApple - https://apple.co/2RzEzIhSister Show The OC Politics ShowWeb - https://sitchradio.com/our-shows/the-oc-politics-show/Sponsors“OC Real-Estate with Daniel”Daniel Preszler - (714) 788-7525 Email - 714ocre@gmail.comCalifornia Trial Attorneys – https://catrialattorneys.com/Foskaris Wellness - https://foskariswellness.com/Sitch Radio - https://sitchradio.com/If you would like to become a sponsor or advertiser Call Sitch Radio (714) 643-2500 X 1

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How California's most pressing problems fell victim to legislative infightingUrge Governor Newsom to permanently protect San OnofreVote 2020ActCoastal, the Coastal Commission accountability projectCalifornia Coastal CommissionSurfrider continues to oppose Poseidon ocean desalination plant

The San Onofre former nuclear reactor site, now turning into a beachfront nuclear waste dump, is painting itself into a corner, tearing up the floor boards, and dismantling the substructure in compliance with SCEdison desires. Learn about the deadly rule change re: San Onofre hidden by CA Coastal Commission , allowing Edison to dismantle spent fuel pools. Lawsuits ensue. Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz of Public Watchdogs on Nuclear Hotseat with host Libbe HaLevy.

The San Onofre former nuclear reactor site, now turning into a beachfront nuclear waste dump, is painting itself into a corner, tearing up the floor boards, and dismantling the substructure in compliance with SCEdison desires. Learn about the deadly rule change re: San Onofre hidden by CA Coastal Commission , allowing Edison to dismantle spent fuel pools. Lawsuits ensue. Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz of Public Watchdogs on Nuclear Hotseat with host Libbe HaLevy.

The San Onofre former nuclear reactor site, now turning into a beachfront nuclear waste dump, is painting itself into a corner, tearing up the floor boards, and dismantling the substructure in compliance with SCEdison desires. Learn about the deadly rule change re: San Onofre hidden by CA Coastal Commission , allowing Edison to dismantle spent fuel pools. Lawsuits ensue. Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz of Public Watchdogs on Nuclear Hotseat with host Libbe HaLevy.

Kicking off the week with our Buzz Question about Tiktok. Do you or your family use it? A missing 3 yo was found and is safe following abduction by her father. Friends of Oceano Dunes win $252k in the latest legal battle with the Coastal Commission. Listeners comment. Monday 8/3: Hour 1 Photo by Peter Gonzalez (https://unsplash.com/@truefriend865?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/pismo-beach?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)

ACTION ALERT: Wipes Clog Pipes!Victory at Cowell'sHeal the Bay 2020 Beach Bummer ListSurfrider Santa CruzSurfrider San Mateo ActCoastal, the Coastal Commission Accountability ProjectCalifornia Coastal CommissionFACTOID: Farewell, Smooth HandfishSurfrider CaliforniaTogether We Can Protect Our CoastsEmail Jen! jsavage AT surfrider.org

International Surfing Day + Surf Contest! Reef Friendly Sunscreen More on Reef Friendly Sunscreen Coastal Commission Victory in Newport Beach

Surfrider Foundation Responds to Recent Acts of Racial Violence in the U.S.Anti-racism toolkitBlack Girls SurfBrown Girl SurfSupport the Chumash Heritage Marine Sanctuary (blog post)Support the Chumash Heritage Marine Sanctuary (take action)California Coastal Commission June agendaActCoastal, the Coastal Commission accountability project

Today on Drive Time OC Brian & Seth discuss, Really? Coastal Commission and Dana Point – Dog’s improve your health.What’s coming to theatres this weekend with Jay Sherer. A Prepared OC and our Weekly Crypto update and events.HeadlinesSeth – Riverside leaders seeking solutions to increase in homeless-related fires in Santa Ana River bottomWeb – https://abc7.com/5941341/Brian – Brian and Robin Christenson along with Kirsten Vangsness, Penelope in the hit show criminal minds. own Santa Ana’s Blinking Owl.Web – https://www.ocregister.com/2020/02/18/criminal-minds-star-moonshine-makers-family-team-up-with-oc-distillery/Seth – Robotic Surgery Milestones for HoagWeb – https://www.newportbeachindy.com/robotic-surgery-milestones-for-hoag/Brian – Donations pour in for residents displaced by devastating Tustin apartment fireWeb – https://www.ocregister.com/2020/02/18/donations-pour-in-for-residents-displaced-by-devastating-tustin-apartment-fire/StoryBrian – 7 WAYS HAVING A DOG CAN IMPROVE YOUR HEALTHStory – https://woofpost.com/2020/02/18/7-ways-having-a-dog-can-improve-your-health/One – Decreased Risk of Heart DiseaseWeb – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3236382Two – Recover More Quickly From IllnessWeb – https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.119.005554Three – Your Dog Might Detect Cancer EarlyWeb – https://www.bbc.com/news/health-12322790Four – Your Children Will Miss Less SchoolWeb – https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2467334Five – Dogs Encourage Physical FitnessSix – Protect Your Children Against AllergiesWeb – https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/eczema/news/20100930/study-dogs-protect-kids-at-risk-for-eczema#1Seven – Stress ReductionWeb – https://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6232/333.full“What’s Coming to Theatres this week?”with Jay ShererAs a writer, Jay Sherer loves stories—especially sci-fi, fantasy, and comic book movies. Listen to him dig deeper into sci-fi, fantasy, and comic book stories on The Story Geeks podcast every Tuesday on your preferred podcast provider. And be sure to check out his Amazon Top Seller novel, Timeslingers—a time travel novel.StorySeth – Coastal Commission denies Dana Point seawall despite landslide riskWeb – https://www.ocregister.com/2020/02/14/coastal-commission-denies-dana-point-seawall-despite-landslide-risk/EventsBrian – Newport Mesa Freemason Open HouseWeb – https://patch.com/california/newportbeach/calendar/event/20200222/780409/newport-mesa-freemason-open-houseSeth – Vegan Hip Hop Music FestObservatory 6pmWeb – https://orangecounty.eventful.com/events/vegan-hip-hop-music-fest-/E0-001-131895335-3Brian – The City of Santa Ana Pet Vaccine ClinicWeb – https://www.facebook.com/events/543223213179262/?event_time_id=543223296512587Seth – Bar Crawl For A CauseMalarkey’s 1-6:30 pm Web – https://www.visitnewportbeach.com/events/winter-bar-crawl-cause/LinksJamar, the “Digital Currency Guy”Web – https://thedigitalcurrencyguy.com/free-trading-challenge-1https://thedigitalcurrencyguy.com/startdcgIG – https://www.instagram.com/jamarjames/FB – https://www.facebook.com/jamarjames11/Twitter – https://twitter.com/Jamar_100Email – jamarjames@gmail.comJay Sherer, “What’s Coming to Theatres this Week”Storytelling ExecutiveThe Reclamation Societyjay@reclamationsociety.orgCo-Writer: STAR WARS: RIVALSCo-Writer: DEATH OF A BOUNTY HUNTERCo-Writer: TIMESLINGERSThe Story Geeks PodcastTitan HST with A Prepared OC – https://www.titanhst.com/Drive Time OCWeb – https://sitchradio.com/our-shows/drive-time-oc/Twitter – https://twitter.com/DriveTimeOCInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/drivetimeoc/TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@drivetimeocDownload the “Drive Time OC” AppAndroid – http://bit.ly/38ifo2JApple – https://apple.co/2RzEzIhSponsorsSitch Radio – https://sitchradio.com/If you would like to become a sponsor or advertiser Call Sitch Radio (714) 643-2500 X 1

Coastal Commission denies Dana Point seawall – OC RegisterActCoastal, the Coastal Commission accountability projectSurfrider – take action! 

Show Notes:Women invited to The Eddie Invitational, story HEREFind your chapter HEREDecember CA Coastal Commission Agenda HEREFactoid! Article HERE

If you have ever been to a concert at Avila you know how special the venue is to the community. Now it seems some residents in the area have raised some concern about the safety of continuing on at the venue, and have gotten the ever so powerful Coastal Commission to lay it's heavy government hand on the situation... Damn tattle tales going to ruin the fun for everyone.

Protect the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Coastal Commission AccountabilityKrill's Influence on CO2 and Global ClimateDel Mar still working it outSan Onofre Decommissioning a Go

The City of Del Mar, California is working on a plan to adapt to Sea Level Rise caused by Climate Change. City planners must get the plan approved by the California Coastal Commission in order to implement the plan; however, the Coastal Commission and the City do not agree on the way Del Mar should adapt to Sea Level Rise.  Del Mar does not think a managed retreat (where the City would buy properties from homeowners as well as a relocation spot.) will work as their properties are more expensive than the surrounding area and the City could not afford the amount necessary to buy the properties.  I wanted to highlight the difficulty of preparing plans like the one discussed during this episode.  Link to Article:   https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/story/2019-10-07/del-mar-state-remain-at-odds-on-how-to-deal-with-sea-level-rise Share your thoughts on managed retreats in the Speak Up For Blue Facebook Group: http://www.speakupforblue.com/group. Check out the new Speak Up For The Ocean Blue Podcast App: http://www.speakupforblue.com/app. Speak Up For Blue Instagram Speak Up For Blue Twitter Check out the Shows on the Speak Up For Blue Network: Marine Conservation Happy Hour Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k4ZB3x Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2kkEElk ConCiencia Azul: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k6XPio Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2k4ZMMf Dugongs & Seadragons: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lB9Blv Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2lV6THt Environmental Studies & Sciences Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lx86oh Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2lG8LUh Marine Mammal Science: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k5pTCI Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2k1YyRL

In this weeks episode, we celebrate the House of Representatives passing anti-drilling bills, bring you an end of session legislation report, recap what went down at the last Coastal Commission meeting, encourage you to join Coastal Cleanup Day, and talk about “dead zones” in the ocean.Show Notes: - Drilling is Killing Campaign Update- CA Legislation - Coastal cleanup Day- Act Coastal- Ocean Friendly Restaurants Video

Jennifer Savage is surfing in Tofino, so Northern California Coordinator, Delia Bense-Kang, is guest hosting for the next two weeks! In this weeks episode we're going to prep you for what's sure to be a doozy of a Coastal Commission meeting, remind you that Drilling is Killing, tell you which bills we're still trying to get passed in the final week of California's state legislature, and – of course – Surfrider staff scientist Katie Day is here with your FACTOID of the WEEK!Show Notes:CA Coast/Ocean Legislation 2019 Action Alert! Make CA a Zero Waste State - Click HEREActcoastal.orgDrilling is Killing Blog and ToolkitAction Alert! Stop Offshore Drilling HERECongressional Press Conference Opposing Offshore Oil Drilling in EncinitasBeachapedia Factoids 

The youngest of a 15-generation family farm in Carpinteria leaves the family history of growing fruit and flowers to embrace the “green rush” of cannabis cultivation. After six deaths this year at the Oceano Dunes Vehicular Recreation Area - and some unhappy neighboring residents - the Coastal Commission is taking a hard look at California's last public beach open that allows vehicles. And saxophonist Ted Nash from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra plays his musical interpretations of some famous paintings at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Wowza, last week’s California Coastal Commission meeting manifested as expected and then some. Show notes:Coastal Commission rejects proposal to restrict off-roading at Oceano Dunes — at least for nowCalifornia’s State and Local Interest Spar Over Sea Level RiseCoastal Commission Blocks Newport Beach Residents’ Attempt to Treat Beach as Their BackyardPacific Grove, Coastal Commission staff, told to hammer out solutions 

Mark Massara is a pivotal California environmental attorney who spent years doing grassroots outreach and attending Coastal Commission hearings all over California using Chevrolet vans as transportation and accommodation. This guy is an absolute hero and one of the best stewards of the California coast that the state has ever seen. It was is honor and a privilege to sit down with Mark and chat about coastal access, preservation, and of course, vans and surfing. I hope you enjoy this episode of the podcast which reads as much as a primer on the California Coastal Act as a story of epic adventure and #vanlife.

Hometown Radio 07/02/19 6p: Cynthia Replogle from the Oceano Beach Community Association previews next weeks Coastal Commission hearings

Show Notes!#RestoreTheShoreSan Diego ChapterEnvironmental groups celebrated after the California State Lands Commission terminated four oil and gas leases in state waters directly offshore the City of Carpinteria in Santa Barbara County.No more offroad riding at Oceano Dunes? Coastal Commission says it's timePhoto: Southern California Manager Bill Hickman

Past episodes here.Art reinforces lessons on sea level riseHalf Moon Bay Ritz-Carlton fined $1.6M for blocking beach accessUncertainty looms as erosion chips away at SanO beachWhy the seawall at SanO has got to goHelp make California a Zero Waste State!Stop sewage, trash and chemicals from polluting Southern California’s beaches!ActCoastal, the California Coastal Commission accountability projectCalifornia Coastal Commission

Peter A. Ravella and Tyler Buckingham are excited to return to the ASPN airwaves, feeling refreshed and invigorated from respective vacations. Subjects discussed: news of the weird on the American Shoreline; Pacific Grove to decide on future of short-term rentals with Measure M; St Augustine Florida's Tax collector working to keep up with vacation rental boom; Santa Barbara County Supervisors to consider Coastal Commission changes to county cannabis ordinance; the power of Hurricane Willa and the recent storm we seem to forget so quickly; and, a look ahead at the other great shows coming to ASPN soon.

In this episode, Yaron sits down with Paul Beard to discuss property rights, cases of interest, the Coastal Commission, endangered species, clean water and more. Paul Beard is an environmental and land-use attorney who co-leads Alston & Bird’s Environmental Appellate Litigation Team and its Coastal Land Use Team. Paul focuses his practice on permitting and litigation issues arising under the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and California Coastal Act, among other statutes. He also counsels project proponents on their statutory and constitutional rights in the permit process and assists them in creating the best administrative record when litigation ensues. He represents a range of clients, including agricultural interests, developers, and industry associations, in state and federal courts across the country. Paul has been named to The Best Lawyers in America© for 2018 in the area of Land Use and Zoning Law. To find out more about Paul Beard, see https://www.alston.com/en/professionals/b/beard-paul-jLike what you hear?  Become a Patreon member, get exclusive content and support the creation of more videos like this! https://www.patreon.com/YaronBrookShow or support the show direct through PayPal: paypal.me/YaronBrookShowWant more? Tune in to the Yaron Brook Show on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/ybrook). Continue the discussions anywhere on-line after show time using #YaronBrookShow. Connect with Yaron via Tweet @YaronBrook or follow him on Facebook @ybrook and YouTube (/YaronBrook).Want to learn more about Objectivism? Check out ARI at https://ari.aynrand.org.  

In December the California Coastal Commission ruled that Laguna Beach's ban on short term rentals was in violation of the California Coastal Act. So what now? We speak with members of Homeshare 4 Laguna, the short term rental advocacy group who took on Laguna and brought the issue to the Coastal Commission.

PLF's Director of Communications Harold Johnson leads a candid discussion with PLF's Executive Vice President and General Counsel John Groen and PLF Client Jennifer Lynch about the May 4th California Supreme Court hearing on PLF's challenge to the California Coastal Commission’s attack on some Encinitas residents’ right to protect their oceanfront homes from storms and erosion. The Lynch's troubles date back to December, 2010, when a severe storm and erosion destroyed their seawall and the lower portion of their long-existing stairway that led from their homes down to the beach. The City of Encinitas gave Lynch and Frick permission to rebuild the seawall and the stairway. But the Coastal Commission balked, and refused to affirm that approval. Instead, the commission attached a condition that the seawall permit would expire in 20 years, forcing the homeowners to apply again or tear out the seawall.

  Welcome to episode 14, on this week's episode, Gustavo discusses the Poseidon desalination plant with Mary Carreon before she talks with Parimal 'P.Mo' Rohit, editor of The Log, who has done extensive coverage on Poseidon as well. We also have a new dramatic reading from Hey You! and a great Mexican restaurant in Huntington Beach. Enjoy!   Show Notes: McClatchy report on critical infrastructure Poseidon coverage Ground Water Replenishment System OC Coastkeepers Interview with Parimal Rohit The Log $1 Billion to construct the facility and another $100 Million for the water delivery infrastructure, billed to taxpayers Charles Lester Poseidon's Carlsbad desalination plant receives an average of 3 violations a month (22 of which were for critical toxicity) Coastal Commission commissioners Hey You! - Howdy Doody Nightmare Puppet Restaurant review - Taqueria Don Victor Yelp Taqueria Don Victor Makes You Taste the Baa (OC Weekly) Taqueria Don Victor Gets the Good Food Treatment (OC Weekly) -- Leave a message on our Hate Hotline: 714-550-5984 letters@ocweekly.com Web Site Facebook Twitter Instagram

It shouldn’t require a team of lawyers, tens of thousands of dollars in legal expense, and years of fighting just to replace an aging mobile home within a mobile home park. But that’s the reality in California when your mobile home replacement requires a permit from the state’s Coastal Commission. Join PLF Director of Communications Harold Johnson as he digs into what in the world is going on at the coast of Capistrano Shores with PLF Attorney Larry Salzman and PLF client Eric Wills, as Mr. Wills gives an impassioned account as to what the Coastal Commission is doing to him, his family, and many more residents in Capistrano Shores.

This week: Rocky Chavez bows out of the U.S. Senate race; a heated debate over the Coastal Commission; and the new politics of gender and the workplace. With John Myers of the Los Angeles Times, Marisa Lagos of KQED, and Anthony York of the Grizzly Bear Project.

Welcome back to episode 39 of the Unofficial SeaWorld Podcast.  in this episode your hosts Eric & Mike along with guest host Andrew talk about the California Coastal Commission meeting and the Blue World Project at SeaWorld. Eric, Mike and Andrew hold a round table discussion as they discuss the various options for SeaWorld San Diego along with the bright future of the SeaWorld Parks. Eric, Mike and Andrew also talk about the upcoming announcement party on November 9th where the new SeaWorld CEO Joel Manby will reveal SeaWorld's new strategy along with new attractions and things that SeaWorld fans can get excited about for the future. Eric then sits down to talk to former SeaWorld trainer Rich Phillips about his new book Orcastration, a book that helps you bring the power of positive reinforcement into your daily life. Eric and Rich talk about the early days at SeaWorld, the history of positive reinforcement  at Seaworld parks and how you can bring positive intentions and positive reinforcement into your daily life! You can order the book now at http://www.businesscoachphillips.com/blog/orcastration-5-killer-whale-secrets-to-a-better-business-and-life/ The book by Rich Phillips is a must have for anyone who is looking to learn some of the history of SeaWorld parks and for some people who want to use the amazing relationship techniques that SeaWorld has developed to work with animals in their daily life.  we want to hear from you, please feel free to email us at unofficialseaworld@gmail.com or follow us on Facebook at Facebook.com/standwithseaworld or on twitter at Twitter.com/SeaWorldPodcast   

For six and a half years I served as a public official on the California Coastal Commission.Commissoner Badge Since it’s been a year since I resigned, it’s time to tell a few stories about what I learned as a Coastal Commissioner. Each and every month I learned something new about human nature, deception and greed.

Last week I got an email last week from a New York VC asking for advice about building a house in the California Coastal Zone. For six and a half years I served as a public official on the California Coastal Commission. The call reminded me that it’s been a year since I resigned, and it’s time to tell a few stories of what I learned as a Coastal Commissioner. Each and every month I learned that not everything was how it seemed.