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1 Turned down a decade ago, bigger project gets OK

May 8 — NINE YEARS after a smaller project on the same site was rejected — and more than two decades after housing was first proposed there — the Monterey County Planning Commission begrudgingly approved a plan April 29 to build 59 single-family homes and 15 affordable townhomes on 12.5 acres on Val Verde Drive at the end of Rio Road behind the Carmel Rancho shopping center ... Read More

2 30-foot cypress gets prime Pebble Beach location

May 8 — THE 18th Fairway at Pebble Beach is graced with another majestic cypress tree after a storm in 2014 toppled its predecessor. About two dozen employees from the Pebble Beach Company and a contractor were involved in the tree relocation effort last week, which included digging up a 30-foot cypress at Spyglass Hill ... Read More

3 Council ditches pricey Car Week parking plan

May 7 — AFTER SEVERAL discussions and a slight lean in favor of a proposal to turn Ocean Avenue and side streets into a spendy paid-parking lot during the busiest nights of Car Week, the Carmel City Council on Tuesday nixed it in favor of Police Chief Todd Trayer’s suggestions for increasing downtown enforcement and contro ... Read More

4 High-speed rail’s latest business plan goes off track

May 7 — THE DREAM of hopping on a train in San Francisco and zipping south at 200 mph to Los Angeles is wonderful, but realizing it has become nothing short of a nightmare for California. In 2008, voters approved high-speed rail on the promise that it would cost between $33 billion and $45 billion, with service beginning in 2020. Nearly two decades later ... Read More