[Magdalen] Pebble Beach demolition derby.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

ML>We need to show we're not just collecting, and not paying attention 
post-project.

That is the way 'regs' are suppposed to work... good on CA!
L

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From: "M J [Mike] Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 11:15 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: [Magdalen] Pebble Beach demolition derby.

> I've said before that the bulk of building permits I review for drainage 
> regulations in Pebble Beach, CA, are demo's.  Con-sarn those crappy 3, 4, 
> and 5-thousand square foot mansions anyway.  Away with them!  Newer and 
> more pathetic, please!
>
> Today we visited two, and one of them was a monster of a house, on 
> pilings, straddling a natural drainage heading out to the Carmel Bay "Area 
> of Special Biological Significance" (ASBS, as it's called).  But good 
> gawd, it was incredible.  We crawled around underneath to survey the 
> channel, and it's not like the to-be-demo'd house wasn't itself 
> well-planned.  It just doesn't happen to be what the Pot D'Or LLC thinks 
> is good enough.  (It's a public entity, soon to be on a public agenda, so 
> no foul on my part.)  They've admittedly got an uphill road ahead, what 
> with the Del Monte Forest Land Use Plan having been revised in recent 
> years to be more restrictive as to impervious runoff, but something tells 
> me said LLC will manage something to please us.  It was just wild standing 
> under the current structure, surveying the surroundings, and realising 
> IT'S JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH.  Damn.
>
> We followed it up with a visit to the new Starbucks at the Crossroads 
> Shopping Center in Carmel, which was engineer-certified to have flood 
> panels in place in order to be finaled, but today we saw virtually 
> nothing, and even some indication that some items have been removed 
> post-certification.  I'm going to recommend tomorrow that I make a phone 
> call to said Starbucks, asking to speak to management about the Emergency 
> Operations Plan we approved in order for them to exist in the first place. 
> Tee hee.  Development in the floodplain costs a lot of money.  We need to 
> show we're not just collecting, and not paying attention post-project.