Category: Classic Big Sur

BSMAAC Agenda, 6/17/16

BIG SUR MULTI-AGENCY ADVISORY COUNCIL

Congressman Sam Farr and Supervisor Dave Potter, Co-Chairs

FRIDAY, June 17, 2016 – 10:00 am
Pfeiffer Big Sur Lodge Conference Center
Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, Big Sur

AGENDA

10:00 a.m.I.CALL TO ORDER Supervisor Dave Potter

II.ROLL CALL AND INTRODUCTIONS

III. APPROVE MINUTES OF April 15, 2016

10:15IV.PUBLIC COMMENT ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS

10:30VI.OLD BUSINESS
1. Report from AT&T about status of telephone landlinesBettye Saxon
2. Report out from agencies on Over Use discussion
– USFS
– State Parks
– CHP
– County

11:20VII.REPORTS FROM MEMBER AGENCIES

(please bring written report)

Big Sur Resident Member
Big Sur Chamber of Commerce
Coast Property Owners’ Association
Monterey County Planning Department
Monterey County Board of Supervisors
Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District
California Coastal Commission
Caltrans
State Parks and Recreation
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
United States Forest Service
30th District, State Assembly
17th District, State Senate
United States Congress

12:45 p.m.VIII.REPORTS FROM OTHER AGENCIES

1:00 p.m. IX.NEXT MEETING: October 21, 2016

(Pfeiffer Big Sur Lodge Conference Center, 10:00 a.m.)

1:00 p.m. XI.ADJOURNMENT

“Thank you to the Big Sur Lodge for their donation of beverages,
food, and use of the Lodge meeting space.”

Reminder: People attending the BSMAAC park in the
lower parking lot in the park and walk up the road.

For minutes and agendas from 2012 forward, please visit:
http://www.co.monterey.ca.us/planning/cca/BSMAAC/bsmaac_main.htm

Esalen’s Gardens

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For your weekend viewing pleasure, a magical place. This place soaks up all the love it receives and gives back in food & beauty. I’m sure it is the work of many, many people, but two I know who put in a great deal of care into this wonderland are Shirley Ward and Kyle Evans. Enjoy this small tribute to a most glorious place. Thanks for letting me wander.

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Historical Society Meets on Saturday

Sounds like a wonderful program. Wishing I lived closer.

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May Wildflowers on Plaskett Ridge

Here are just a few of the wildflowers I photographed on the way down Saturday.

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And then there were –  what used to be the exceedingly rare, but much more prolific in the last few years – Charmin flowers.

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Big Sur Marathon this Sunday, 4/24/2016

Travelers are advised to avoid Highway One until after 1 pm, otherwise expect 2 hour delays. Caravan time are listed below, but if you cannot read them, go to: Big Sur International Marathon for additional information. Employee passes are, as usual, available at the Big Sur River Inn office.

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Mother and Calf in Big Sur

This glorious shot was taken in the waters off the coast. It is by Dan Danbom. It is striking.

Happy Sunday!

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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

 

 

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!

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