Category: Big Sur News

Highway One Road Work Tentative Schedule thru June

SLIDE REPAIR PROJECT ALONG HIGHWAY 1 BETWEEN MOLERA ROAD NEAR MARINA AND THE MONTEREY/SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY LINE—BEGINS MONDAY, MAY 2

MONTEREY COUNTY – A lengthy, slide repair project along the Highway 1 coast between Molera Rd. near Marina and the Monterey/San Luis Obispo County line will begin Monday, May 2, Caltrans officials announced today.

Roadwork will take place Monday through Friday and consist of one-way traffic control between the hours of 7 am and 4 pm. Motorists can expect delays not to exceed 15 minutes. Electronic message signs will be posted alerting motorists of the work. Below is a tentative schedule for the next few weeks but dates and locations are subject to change, depending on the time required to complete each section.

May 2 – PM 51.2 (Molera) to 49.03 (River Inn)
May 3 – PM 49.03 (River Inn) to 48.03 (Big Sur Library)
May 4 – PM 48.03 (Library) to 48.85 (Brewer Bridge)
May 5 – PM 48.85 to 47.3 (Fernwood)
May 6 – PM 47.3 to 46.35 (Big Sur Station)

May 9 – 46.35 to 45.52 (Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge)
May 10 – 45.52 to 44.9 (Post Ranch)
May 11 – 44.9 to 43.91 (Nepenthe)
May 12 – 43.91 to 43.17 (Big Sur Inn)
May 13 – 43.17 to 42.15 (Fullers)

May 16 – 42.15 to 39.72 (Torre Canyon Bridge)
May 17 – 42.15 to 39.72 (Torre Canyon Bridge)
May 18 – 39.72 to 38.69 (Partington Ridge Road)*
May 19 – Move to Willow Springs Area PM 10.00 (Gorda) to PM 8.88 (Mud Creek)
May 20 – 8.88 to 6.8 (Grey’s Slip)
*NOTE: Crews are aware and will work around the AMGEN tour.

The purpose of this roadwork is to improve traveler safety by making highway repairs. Roadwork is being done by the Big Sur and Willow Springs Maintenance crews. This project is scheduled to be complete in June. An update will be provided next month with the final weeks’ schedule.

Caltrans reminds motorists to move over and slow down when driving through highway work zones.

For more information on this project and for traffic updates on other Caltrans projects in Monterey County, residents can call the District 5 toll free number at 1-831-372-0862 or can visit our website at: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist05/paffairs/release.htm#mon.

Susana Z. Cruz
Caltrans District 5
Public Information Officer/
Portavoz de Relaciones Públicas
para Caltrans en el Distrito 5
805. 549.3138
805.549.3326–fax
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Big Sur Grange Music Revue TOMORROW

This event is tomorrow, Sunday April 17, 2016. Just got the notice, so I hope you all can come out and support our local Grange.

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BSMAAC Meeting Agenda

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REMINDER TO PARK IN THE LOWER PARKING LOT AND WALK UP THE ROAD TO THE CONFERENCE CENTER.

Also, for all agendas and minutes since 2012 go to: Link here

 

 

TV Shoot at Grimes, 4/2/16

From Mid-Coast Fire Brigade:

“Tomorrow a crew will be shooting scenes for a TV show at the Grimes Ranch. The shoot is limited to the Grimes Ranch on Highway 1. Nothing will take place in Palo Colorado. The shoot has been permitted by Cal Trans, Monterey County and CHP. This shoot will also include the permitted use of a drone by FAA and Monterey County.
Plan on possible delays as people slow down on HIghway 1to look at what’s going on.”

Earth Day

The 4th Annual Big Sur Earth Day Fair, sponsored by B-SAGE (Big Sur Advocates for a Green Environment) is Sunday, April 10th at the Henry Miller Library from 1-5:00.

Free.
Park and take the shuttle from the turnout at mile marker 44.3, just south of Post Ranch Inn on the ocean side of the highway, or take the bus (Line 22) to Nepenthe and walk the 1/4 mile to the Library

Children’s activities, handmade/ upcycled crafts, delicious food, bike smoothie, music, info on fracking & prizes will demonstrate our theme, “Celebrate Clean Air and Water.”

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Big Sur Library Update

Another update on the Big Sur Library:
The Library closure has been extended ( again) until June 1st…

However, the library is now located at the Big Sur Grange ( hooray!) on Fridays from 11am-3pm, and will be at that location until the official opening of the branch. The Grange is located 0.1 mile away from Ripplewood, heading south on your right hand side. ( There has been so much support to make this new location a reality, and I want to send a big thank you to all involved in this process.)
During this time you will still be able to drop off, pick up holds, and browse through a large collection of materials.
Storytime is still at 11:30 on Fridays.

As mentioned before, please do call the Seaside Library at 899-2055, or any other Monterey County Free Libraries branch for help, visit our Big Sur branchlette located at Ripplewood or visit your account online, and PLEASE do consider signing up for our free Library-by-mail service. They send you materials in the mail for free! Please see here: http://www.co.monterey.ca.us/library/LBM.html .

Also, I do want to add that the Big Sur Memorial Day Weekend Bake and Book Sale is STILL happening. At this time, the location is determined to still be on the Ripplewood lawn.
What to do with my donations? Please see the current Round-up for full details, but you may drop off your donated materials at the Grange during ‘open’ hours from 11am-3pm.

Please do share this information with friends and neighbors as appropriate.
Thank you all so much for your support. <3

Julia Mazerik

Nowhere is our real home … Community and Identity in the New West

From Henry Miller Memorial Library

A new speakers series exploring how developing areas in the West can maintain their wild character in our “virtual age.”

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As you read this, it’s a sunny late-March weekday morning here on the coast, and approximately 85 cars are parked along Highway 1 near Big Sur Station.

It feels like July, but it’s late March.

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If there was any doubt, it’s official now. The world is hip to Big Sur. The genie’s out of the bottle.

And this increased popularity, as we all know, brings with it a whole host of challenges affecting the land the visitors and the residents.

Workers’ housing. Short-term rentals. Traffic congestion. Public access curtailed. Clogged up vistor’s parking. Garbage in the wilderness. The commercialization of neighborhoods. Drones. (Yes, drones.)…

If you are concerned about these issues and what Big Sur will look in five, 10, 25 years, we encourage you to come to the Henry Miller Library on April 3rd at 4 pm.

We’ll be launching our new speaking series,
Nowhere Is Our Real Home:
Community and Identity in the New West.

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Across the summer, some of the country’s most thoughtful conservationists, historians, and naturalists will talk about how developing areas can maintain their wild character in our “virtual age.”

Our inaugural speaker will be David Gessner, award-winning author of All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West and nine other books.
David will discuss his own “post-regionalist philosophy” about what home and its relationship to the wild might mean now, using Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, and Wendell Berry as touchstones.

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Future speakers include Kenneth Brower (above; June 5th, Not Man Apart), Malcolm Margolin (July 31st, Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786), and Don Usner (Aug. 7th The Natural History of Big Sur).

More speakers will be added as the spring turns into summer. To learn more about this series, click here.

To RSVP for David’s talk on April 3rd please visit the library website. This talk is by donation.
Welcome!

Henry Miller Memorial Library | http://www.henrymiller.org | 831-667-2574

Highway One Temporarily Closed

12:15 pm – Highway open in both directions. Traffic will a nightmare, though for an hour or two.

11:45 am – Cal Trans had put road closed signs up in Carmel and Cambria. Fire and PGE stuck in traffic.
11:22 AM 2 [29] STUCK IN TRAFFIC W/PGE AT MM 47

SIG ALERT

Word from Big Sur Valley is highway backed up from MAF to Fernwood on the South bound lane. Reports of no power in the Big Sur Valley Area

Date/Time: 3-28-16 @ 11 am

Location: State Route 1 in Big Sur is closed in both directions 1/8 mile south of the Big Sur Maintenance Station (PM 46) in Monterey County

Description of Incident:
small redwood trees fell on wires, struck an unoccupied vehicle and is blocking the lanes in both directions of State Route 1.

Estimated Time of Opening

PG&E and Fire Department are enroute. No ETO at this time.

CHP Traffic Incident Information Page: http://cad.chp.ca.gov

Susana Z. Cruz
Caltrans District 5
Public Information Officer/
Portavoz de Relaciones Públicas
para Caltrans en el Distrito 5
805. 549.3138
805.549.3326–fax
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Planning Commission Agenda & Reports

Hi all,

This week’s Monterey County Planning Commission agenda for the meeting Wednesday 3/30 includes a workshop on the medical marijuana ordinance and a status report on efforts to create short term rental and event ordinances. Here is a link to a page on the County website for the Planning Department of the Resource Management Agency (boy that’s a mouthful) where you can download the agenda:

Monterey County Planning Agenda

or copy and paste the info below into your browser.

http://www.co.monterey.ca.us/government/departments-i-z/resource-management-agency-rma-/planning/committees-agendas/planning-commission/agendas-reports-2016

The agenda has active links to the staff reports for these items, and the page should provide those interested in following along and able to access video with instructions about how to watch online if you would like to do that. If you would like to attend that is fine too as these hearings are open to anyone. The public will have a chance to speak on each item (usually limited to 3 minutes though). Letters and emails are always a good way to provide your thoughts as well: I know I read them carefully, and I believe other Commissioners do too.

Best,
Martha

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Martha Diehl
Garrapata Trout Farm

Big Sur Flow Study Presentation

Big Sur Flow Study Meeting March 24, 2016,
Grange Hall 3:00 – 5:00 pm

The Department of Fish and Wildlife will present the results of the recently completed Big Sur flow study. At the time the Big Sur Watershed Management Plan was completed, flow study results were not available. This is an opportunity for interested community members to learn about the results of the study and ask questions. Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting.

photo credit: Margie Whitnah (she shares the location, date, and history of this shot in the comment section below.)

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