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1 Mayor argues for developing city land

March 27 — WHILE CARMEL Mayor Dale Byrne last November supported submitting a revised housing plan to the state that would eliminate city-owned property as potential sites for affordable units, a column he wrote for last week’s Pine Cone states otherwise, instead favoring working with developers on large projects ... Read More

2 Street addresses on track for May rollout

March 27 — AFTER WEEKS of resolving numbering issues and working on policies behind the scenes, the City of Carmel is preparing to hand its new street-address system over to Monterey County in April for review and implementation, city officials said this week, with everything set to go live the following month ... Read More

3 Orosco answers critics of C.V. housing plan

March 26 — ADDRESSING A crowd of roughly 250 mostly skeptical residents at Tularcitos Elementary School March 18, developer Patrick Orosco issued a stark warning: If his 90-home plan for the former Carmel Valley airfield fails, a future developer could build as many as 600 units on the same land ... Read More

4 Newsom spending millions fixing California’s image

March 26 — GOV. GAVIN Newsom is hoping to bring some California cool to your news feed with a $19 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign to rebrand the state. A February request-for-proposals from Newsom’s office of business and economic development asserts that California has been getting a bad rap ... Read More