{"id":3328,"date":"2012-03-23T02:05:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T09:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2014-03-04T10:01:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:01:51","slug":"illegal-development-approvals-acknowledged-by-city-manager-of-pacific-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/illegal-development-approvals-acknowledged-by-city-manager-of-pacific-grove\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Development Approvals Admitted by Pacific Grove City Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pacific Grove City Mangler Tom Frutchey<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThings were much better [for developers] in the old days, in large part because staff didn\u2019t follow the law<\/span>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Pacific Grove City Manager<\/strong> Tom Frutchey, April 2011<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Former Pacific Grove<\/strong> planning officials \u201crepeatedly approved projects after only partial or faulty analysis and otherwise sidestepped local and state requirements<\/span>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Pacific Grove City Manager<\/strong> Tom Frutchey, April 2011<\/p>\n

City planning files “are replete with examples of poor planning decisions<\/span>, including staff approved lot configurations, inappropriately granted use permits, and sidewalk seating approved with just a letter request.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Pacific Grove City Manager<\/strong> Tom Frutchey, April 2011<\/p>\n

Once you’ve spent any time in local politics you realize that city and County “Planners” routinely violate state and local laws including California’s Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), our Coastal Protection Act, Zoning laws and on and on.<\/p>\n

What is extraordinary is that a public official would ever admit it publicly as Pacific Grove’s new City Manager<\/strong> Tom Frutchey did.<\/p>\n

He got blasted by the developers who demanded a retraction. Well the City Manager<\/strong> apologized.<\/p>\n

Now what’s interesting is while the City Manager<\/strong> apologized — he never refuted his very explicit remarks that staff had violated laws, he only gave a vague generalized retraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThings were much better [for developers] in the old days, in large part because staff didn\u2019t follow the law.\u201d – Pacific Grove City Manager Tom Frutchey, April 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5735,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions\/5735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}