Category: JRG in the News
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Commission: Shucks should identify as a restaurant
Logan’s attorney, Jason Retterer sent a Dec. 9 letter arguing that A.W. Shucks has lost its right to the bar use. “We submit that the ‘drinking place’ use is not authorized and has in fact been forfeited and abandoned,” because it has not been operating in a manner consistent with its use permit for nearly…
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TAMC to revisit proposed Sand City Multiuse Trail
The proposed Sand City Multiuse Trail would fill in a missing link of the Rec Trail as it passes through Seaside and Sand City along the old rail line, which is owned by TAMC. Sand City was awarded two grants in 2024 totaling over $2 million to design the trail, and just as those designs are starting…
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Friends of Laguna Seca take over track: What will it mean?
The nonprofit Friends of Laguna Seca officially took control of the historic WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on August 1, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony taking place August 15. So, what does that mean? We went straight to the top, speaking with Friends of Laguna Seca CEO Lauri Eberhart.
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Salinas grants relocation for cannabis dispensary
A local cannabis dispensary that’s been battling with the Salinas City Council for years over its plans to relocate will be allowed to move into a new location.
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Cannacruz appeal granted by Salinas City Council, pot shop’s move to South Main to return for discussion on June 25
SALINAS, Calif. (KION-TV) — Salinas City Council members have granted an appeal by Cannacruz after the pot shop was initially prevented from moving to a location along South Main Street.
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Salinas cannabis dispensary faces eviction, city council to decide on relocation appeal
A Salinas cannabis dispensary is on the brink of eviction, with its fate hinging on a city council decision regarding its appeal to relocate.
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Pajaro farmworker housing project moving forward
Jason Retterer, an attorney for Rio Vista Group, said that the property owners hired several experts in response to neighbors’ concerns, which has included five different analyses of the potential traffic impacts.
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Pacific Grove Historic Resources Committee asks City Council to finance independent review of the NOAA building
For over two years, activists have been trying to save the former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration building on Point Pinos in Pacific Grove, to no avail.
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New NOAA building owners want to make it a home, Indigenous people are fighting to stop it
The new owner of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s former Southwest Fisheries Science Center plans to rezone the lot for residential use. Now advocates hoping to preserve the building are pushing to get the facility on the city’s list of historically significant structures.
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You Short-Term Days are Over
Truckee’s ADU ordinance was most recently updated and became effective on Jan. 7, 2021. The path to meet those updates had several interim steps. In December 2019 and in response to state law changes, Truckee amended its development code with emergency ordinance 2019-10, which included a ban of short-term renting ADUs not permitted prior to Jan.…