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CRA News September 1999
Selected articles from the newsletter of the Carmel Residents Association
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The Soup, Salad, Sandwich Hullabaloo How would it change Carmel? You be the judge. |
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| As it is now under the current food use ordinance | As it would be under the proposed amendment |
| 1. Except for a few specialty restaurants (See Definitions below) "grandfathered in," no specialty restaurants may serve soup, salad and sandwiches. | 1. All existing specialty restaurants, including those off Ocean Avenue, and any new specialty restaurants, could serve soup, salad and sandwiches after applying for and receiving a use permit. |
| 2. The General Plan states: "Limit the number of business uses in the commercial district selling food for immediate consumption by pedestrians ... to reduce the generation of litter ... on public rights of way..." | 2. Presently there is no limit to the number of specialty restaurants except on Ocean Avenue. However, opening the door to more specialty restaurants selling soup, salad and sandwiches would undermine the intent of the General Plan. |
| 3. Supported actively by business owners and residents, the 1997 food ordinance was adopted unanimously by the Planning Commission and the City Council. The ordinance has been tested and proved effective. | 3. If Council amends the ordinance for one person, it will set a precedent for all. We could lose the unique identity which Carmel-by-the-Sea's elected and appointed officials have worked diligently to preserve. |
| 4. The current ordinance allows specialty restaurants to sell a limited choice of food items, which helps them to retain their uniqueness. | 4. By expanding their menus, these restaurants would become more like full-line restaurants but without the required amenities such as wait persons, table service and menus. And, they would retain the litter problems associated with convenience-food operations. |
| 5. As our code enforcement officials have discovered, it is already difficult to enforce the existing 10% ancillary use rule. (see Definitions.) | 5. Adding soup, salad, and sandwiches as another ancillary use would create an even more unmanageable enforcement problem in trying to keep this incidental use from becoming a primary use. It could even require an additional code enforcement officer. |
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Specialty Restaurant: " ... a business selling a limited range of food products for immediate consumption on the site. Such businesses provide seating but are not required to provide table service or menus. Specialty restaurants provide not more than two of the following lines of food: a) pastries and doughnuts; b) desserts, including frozen desserts; c) candy and nuts; d) juices; and e) coffee and tea ..." Land uses that typically fall within this category include bakeries, ice cream parlors, juice bars and similar businesses. Ancillary Use: "A use that is secondary or limited in comparison to a primary use in terms of inventory, merchandise, or amount of display space that is occupied." |
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"Sunrise at Sunset" is meeting topic
The City Council has unanimously approved a design concept which will largely leave the historic building intact, and has pledged $5 million. A project manager, Bill Camille of Davis Langdon Adamson, has been hired, and the nonprofit fund-raising group Sunset Center for the Arts, with the help of a nationally-known fund-raising firm, has begun a capital campaign with a goal of $11.5 million. The Sunset Project Building Committee, which includes four city and four Sunset Center for the Arts representatives, has been meeting weekly to work out the many issues involved with such a large project.
Full speed into the 21st century
www.carmelresidents.org
Ready for the millennium, the Carmel Residents
Association now has a website. A board subcommittee of Linda Anderson,
Roger Fremier and Shirley Humann is working with Evelyn
Starr, of Starr Sites, in
Monterey to create a site that will be helpful and informative for both
current and potential members.
The website contains basic information about the CRA and its activities,
a membership form, a detailed calendar and selected newsletter articles.
It will be updated monthly. From time to time, an "Action Alert" on the
Home page will be used to get important information to members. Check
it out at www.carmelresidents.org and give us
your comments. If you aren't on line, you can use the library's computers.
State Coastal
Cleanup
Saturday, Sept. 18 9 a.m. - noon
* Volunteers meet at foot of Ocean Avenue* Please bring gloves
The Sept. Beach Cleanup will be held on the third rather than the fourth Saturday to coincide with the state Coastal Cleanup. It will begin at 9 a.m. rather than 10 a.m. We will keep track of what is picked up and how much it all weighs to aid in legislative efforts to protect our coast. Kay and Harvey Kuffner are chairs for this special work day. Talented, imaginative Wayne Kelley (a typical CRA member) has created four "M2A Models" of his beach cleanup scoop/strainer. Come early to the Oct. cleanup and maybe you can use one. [Tools and vests will not be distributed in Sept. because so many additional people join us there aren't enough.]
CRA breathes life into City project
Thanks to an $1,810 gift to the Fire Department from the Carmel Residents Association, two new mannequins, a child and an adult, will be purchased for use in teaching cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). President Shirley Humann was warmly thanked after presenting the check to Fire Chief Bill Hill and Police Chief Don Fuselier at the July 13 City Council meeting.
CITY COUNCIL NOTES
At the July 13 City Council meeting, Laurel Whorf, on behalf of the CRA Board of Directors, presented a lovely bouquet of flowers to long-time City Hall employee Sarah Manning, who recently retired.The Council passed on first reading an ordinance which requires stores with over 5,000 square feet of space to obtain a use permit, thereby giving the City the opportunity to examine these proposed businesses more closely.
On August 3, the City Council received a request from the San Carlos Street Improvement Project that City staff apply for a federal grant to fund the traffic calming and aesthetic improvements they have planned and that the City allocate $40,000 in matching funds in fiscal year 2000/01. Anne Bell, on behalf of the CRA Board, spoke in favor of the project as did Peggy Purchase, who chairs the San Carlos Committee. A motion by Ken White and Marshall Hydorn to approve the proposal failed with Paula Hazdovac and Sue McCloud dissenting. [ Barbara Livingston had to step down because she lives on San Carlos.] A second motion to continue the issue until Sept., requesting more information from the committee and their commitment to pay for the consultant to write the grant passed with Paula Hazdovac dissenting.
At a special August 19 meeting on the Sunset Center Project, the Council unanimously approved the signing of a contract with architect Bruce Judd, of Architectural Resources Group, San Francisco, for design of the Sunset Center Project and directed staff to begin efforts toward a debt issuance in the first part of FY2000 to fulfill the City's $5 million pledge. Before the actual debt is issued, the Council will have had a chance to see the schematic design, refined cost estimates and a report on the progress in reaching the $16.65 million project goal.
Flanders Update
Big news and big accomplishments
to
"Save Flanders" for the public's use and enjoyment
The Flanders Foundation received its
federal nonprofit, tax exempt status July 19th, only two months after
obtaining the same approval from the State Franchise Tax Board. Special
thanks go to State Assemblyman Fred Keeley, U.S. Senator Barbara
Boxer and Attorney Robert D'Isidoro for their help.
On August 15, the Flanders Foundation hosted a tour and refreshments for
board members of the prestigious Roycroft Foundation of New York, who
had gathered at Asilomar for the 7th Annual California Arts and Crafts
Symposium. Their visit to Flanders was the final stop on a tour that took
Roycrofters and preservationists to some of Carmel's very special arts
and crafts style homes and gardens.
As part of its community outreach program, the foundation organized two
highly successful "Discover Flanders" walks. Foundation board members
met participants at the Rio Road entrance to Mission Trail Nature Preserve
and walked them up the Flanders Trail to the mansion. Gary Girard
and Marge Adams talked about the Lester Rowntree native Plant Garden
and Melanie Billig spoke about the history of Flanders, its part
in the preserve and the mission of the Flanders Foundation. Twenty plus
people attended the first walk, which generated over 50 calls the week
prior to the event. The second walk was even more successful with 36 attendees.
Visitors came away commenting on what incredible assets the mansion and
native plant garden are and that they should be retained by the city for
future generations. People also stated that the preserve, Flanders Mansion,
and the native plant garden should be better promoted by the City for
the enjoyment of its residents.
To create greater community awareness, the foundation is scheduling a
series of gatherings throughout the summer and fall to acquaint people
with the foundation and its board members.
The "kickoff" of the capital campaign to "Save Flanders" is slated to
begin this month with the launching of the "Flanders 500." There will
also be gifting opportunities at all levels so that everyone in
the community can feel that there is a role and place for them in the
campaign. Two prominent fund-raising consultants have provided pro-bono
help to the Foundation to assist in its success.
For more information on the foundation, or to offer help and support to
retain Flanders as a public asset, please call 831-626-3826. Flanders
Foundation board members are Melanie Billig, Paul Eastman,
Gary Girard, Diane Hydorn, Jerry Kimmel, Elizabeth
Sooy, Pauline Stanley, Lou Ungaretti, Yoko Whitaker
and Laurel Whorf.
Certificate of Appreciation
Awarded to Little Swiss Cafe
President Shirley Humann recently
presented Steve Disseldorp, owner of the Little Swiss Cafe, with
a Carmel Residents Association Certificate of Appreciation. According to
Bob Kohn, who sent CRA a letter about this fine establishment, the
Little Swiss Cafe is "probably one of the last local restaurants remaining
in Carmel. Its quaint, old-time Carmel atmosphere attracts regular customers
on a repeat basis." The restaurant, on 6th Avenue between Dolores and Lincoln,
is open seven days a week for breakfast and lunch until 3 p.m.When Little Swiss owners Henk and Adri Disseldorp retired, they passed on the business to their son Steve. He is continuing the fine family tradition of good food at reasonable prices with friendly service by long-time employees.
