preserving, protecting, and defending the rural character
and natural resources of Carmel Valley since 1949
Carmel Valley Association
Weekly Bulletin
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You Made a Difference!
Thank you to all who spoke on-line and in-person concerning short-term ("vacation") rentals at yesterday's Board of Supervisors' meeting. It appears that the county is at last willing to go ahead with at least some reasonable regulation of short-term rentals while we wait for a new ordinance.
County planners presented, and the supervisors accepted, a realistic interim program to enforce current ordinances, which have languished unenforced for many years.
The major components of the interim program are:
- Public Outreach and Education – 30 Day Provide information and guidance for greater communication and coordination among those involved at multiple levels in vacation rental operations.
- Enforcement – Provide varying levels of code compliance response and guidance to those involved in noncompliant vacation rentals operations.
- Technology - Increase the use of third-party services/technology in vacation rental advertisement monitoring, complaint hotline, and violation notification.
- Staffing - Increase staff by one Supervising Code Compliance Inspector, one Code Compliance Inspector, and one Office Assistant.
- Funding - Use citation payments and Transient Occupancy Tax to fund the vacation rental code compliance efforts, with emphasis on full cost recovery.
Thank you to county staff for listening to CVA, and thank you to the almost 500 people who sent letters and emails in support of our position.
We will continue to work with county planners and supervisors to ensure that a new ordinance respects and maintains the residential character of Carmel Valley neighborhoods.
The process isn't over, and we may need your help again!
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Embodiology Workshop
December 12-17 | Hidden Valley Music Seminars
During this one-week Embodiology Immersion workshop, participants will exponentially increase their capacity to innovate, whilst enhancing their wellbeing, vitality and empathy. Fostering innovation regardless of your field of expertise, this experience is suitable for all walks of life, and is recommended for dancers, actors, musicians, teachers, and anyone seeking connection, joy, and wellbeing. The experience serves as a PREREQUISITE for Embodiology®’s Teacher Training.
Embodiology® praxis involves meditation, cognitive and sensory investigation, reflective journaling, and movement practice. The experience will engage exercises and tasks that use African and diasporic principles of dynamic rhythm, fractal code, inner sensing and balance, as well as mindfulness practices focusing on the relationship between breath and rhythm.
Embodiology® is a product of action research in Ghana, mainly from an Anlo-Ewe community, and uses specific principles from indigenous performance methodologies to shape an optimizing mind-body practice. In respect to drawing upon their indigenous knowledge, resources are returned to their community each time Embodiology® principles are shared in full or in part.
ELIGIBILITY
- Age 16+
- Desire to adapt, create, connect, and contribute
- Proof of vaccination
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Update from Supervisor Mary Adams' Office on the Carmel River Floodplain Restoration and Environmental Enhancement Project (CRFREE):
CRFREE Project and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan was approved by the County of Monterey Board of Supervisors June 15, 2021. This begins a two-year pre-construction and permitting phase.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has initiated its analysis of the Project as part of its consideration of the $22.9 million grant funds proposed for the CRFREE project, inclusive of funding for Carmel Area Wastewater District’s project to underground its force main and sewer outfall pipes spanning the south arm of the Lagoon.
Construction and permitting is in progress. The current implementation schedule anticipates construction to begin in early 2023. Construction will last approximately twelve to eighteen months. The Project will work with Caltrans, community members, event organizers and other stakeholders to minimize impacts or disruptions along Highway One during construction.
The Big Sur Land Trust and the County are working with consultants to initiate environmental permitting that kicked off with Project approval in June.
Grant funding of approximately $42 million will be needed. Approximately $11 million in grant funds have been awarded, with a further $30 million applied for and pending.
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Here's a web site to check to see
if your area is scheduled for a power outage:
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Pris Walton, President
Carmel Valley Association
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Carmel Valley Association is one of the oldest, largest, and most successful community organizations in Monterey County. We are entirely volunteer, with no paid employees. Our mission is to defend the beauty, resources and rural character of our beautiful valley. We do that by working with residents, businesses, and government.
CVA was instrumental in the adoption of the Carmel Valley Master Plan and recently settled a lawsuit with Monterey County regarding traffic measurement and capping future development on very favorable terms for our valley. Our volunteer experts represent Carmel Valley's interest, testifying before governmental bodies concerning development, water, traffic, road signs, and other quality of life issues.
We keep valley residents informed about important issues and events with our weekly email Bulletin, which goes to over 1200 residents, and our quarterly Newsletter, which is mailed to over 7,000 valley addresses.
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Header photo by
Carmel Valley Photographer
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