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May 19, 2025

BREAKWATER BARBECUE REOPENS IN MONSTER SPACE ON HIGHWAY 1

restaurant review

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SAVE SANCHEZ ART CENTER & PACIFICA PERFORMANCES CONCERT HALL: PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING, MAY 19

The item on the Planning Commission agenda for this Monday night, May 19, is

2. General Plan Amendments,, Zoning Ordinance and Associated Land Use and Zoning Map Amendments (see more at the end of this email)

This action will rezone the Sanchez Art Center and Pacifica Performances Concert Hall to make way for multi-family housing.

Please submit a public comment before noon on Monday

To: [email protected]

Subject: Item 2, Planning Commission meeting 5/19/25

Please do not approve agenda item #2 unless there is wording added to make it clear that the city intends to preserve the Sanchez Art Center exhibition spaces and artist studios and the Pacifica Performances Mildred Owen Concert Hall performance space on site 23.

Include your full name.

Feel free to use your own words. This is only a draft. A different draft is at the end of this email

Please forward this email to anybody you think would be interested.

Thank you

If you can attend the meeting at 7 pm in the Council chambers at 2212 Beach Blvd. that would be most effective. You can also participate by zoom at this link

https://pacifica-gov.zoom.us/j/81156158241

2. NEW PUBLIC HEARINGS:

File No. 2025-007 File No. 2025-007 – General Plan Amendments (GPA-108-25), Zoning Ordinance (TA-128-25), and Associated Land Use (GPA-108-25) and Zoning Map Amendments (RZ-216-25)

Implementing Rezoning Required under the 2023-2031 Housing Element.

Recommended CEQA Action: City Council certification of an environmental impact report (EIR), and adoption of findings of fact, statement of overriding considerations, and mitigation monitoring and reporting program (MMRP).

Recommended Action: Adopt a resolution initiating the Text Amendments to the General Plan and Zoning Ordinance, and General Plan Maps and Zoning Maps Amendments; and recommending certification of the EIR and approval of the text and map amendments to the City Council.

Dear Planning Commissioners,

I am writing regarding item 2 which I understand could dismantle the Sanchez Art Center and Pacifica Performances in order to build housing on the site which the City owns. Please understand that these 2 Cultural Gems are a part of what draws not only Pacificans to the venues but many out of town folks and, aside from our open spaces and great surfing etc. are what make this town a fabulous place to live. The City has supported both these venues over the years and I hope will not stop now. I am aware that we need housing. However Pacificans have benefited from the Art Center and The Performing Arts Center for over 30 years and hope to continue to benefit. Please do all you can to keep our cultural heritage intact at this site for current and future citizens to enjoy.

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May 14, 2025

STEPHEN JOHNSON PHOTOGRAPHY

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May 09, 2025

SOVIET SPACE JUNK CRASHES HARMLESSLY INTO INDIAN OCEAN

A Soviet-era space probe designed to land on Venus has returned to Earth. Because it was built to survive Venus's thick, acid atmosphere, Kosmos 482 survived reentry and crashed into the Indian Ocean on May 10. Full story: Spaceweather.com

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May 07, 2025

RIPTIDE COVERS SAN MATEO COUNTY COAST

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May 04, 2025

May 03, 2025

INDECENT EXPOSURE IN PACIFICA

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RESERVOIRS IN GOOD SHAPE

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April 26, 2025

WHAT A LONG STRANGE TRIP IT'S BEEN

My globetrotting brother Joel Maybury, a semi-retired foreign service officer, amassed this genealogical research on his Maybury ancestors in Europe and America, a work in progress. His mileage included visits to graveyards, funeral homes, cemeteries, city halls, saloons, and pizzerias all over the Eastern Seaboard in search of living relatives, headstones, and birth and death records. If you have information to add to our family database, please let us know at the Comments section below or email mayburrito AT gmail.com

Maybury ancestry 1

Maybury ancestry 2

Joel also found information about our French Protestant (Huguenot) ancestors. Here are stories and pictures about them in Chervey, France, the land of Champagne grapes.

Chervey

Joel stumbled upon our father's birthplace in Lehighton, Pennsylvania.

Lehighton

Before The Mamas and The Papas there was The Pentecostal String Band, starring my great-grandparents and their Bower in-laws.