Pullout: Big Sur Coast Visitor's Guide and Gas Map 25c Two Sections 32 Pag.es • Serving tire JIlsitors and Residents. of fire Big Sur Coast from Monterey Peninsula to Hearst Volume 2, No.7 Big SUf, California 93920 4Q8..667 .. 2222 Mld-Jul, - Mld-Auguat; 1879 • INSIDE THIS ISSUE: • Did the Sierra Cub Bargain \ with the Devil at Diablo? t. • Pages 9, 10, 11 '" • Bring Back The Del Monte Express! Special Feature - Section II • The Sea Otten: Saved or Doomed? • Center/old - Pages 12, 13, 14¢ • Coastal Commission Opposes Amendment for Its AboUtiOD • Pagel • FIre Brigade Efforts ~y Reduce ISO FIre insurance Ratings Pages 4 and 5 ,~ • • Big Sur's July 4th Parade [ Page 24 [ • State Puk Buys East Molera Iii the n~ of II, Rew book I I • _14, B. Coalter. would not the "If he "SCA-25 would chaotic :SIUI.IiU\lll relative to coastal act reGrutt-em.en1·s, and the _____ Commission Opposes ADlleDlDlDleDI for Its AboUtioD California's r! • at Amendment abolish the Coastal Commissions" Management Act," of the State and to "transfer and aU powers, and Fischer concluded that the Amendment would be a letter to Senator Paul respotllsibiliti'es to and " giant step backwards to California's efforts to plan wrote that' 'the Coastal Commission In It Gazette Ida Lowe, Il legislative aide in the long range use and conservation of coastal voted unanimously to oppose your resources. " bill SCA·25 would a Constitutional Amend- Senator Carpenter's Sacramento reported that "the mail and telegram responses have been 100% in support of e ment to abolish the " J.!:'Jioi:lI!lIIUI11t: Aide Ida Lowe reported that the In June Senator Caprenter introduced a State L01!lstltutlton- abolishing the except for one letter from the date seemed to suggest a broadly-based support director of the commission who wrote in opposition:' the Coastal Commission, which included merchants, bUildelrs, "Unusual Acquisition" "The response has been geographic, " she attorneys, ranchers,· realtors and farmers. said. "We did not out a press release, and not many "The interest is spreading, and the response is good," she people know the Amendment, so as it becomes said. State Park Buys East reported in newspapers from area to area, so come the But she predicted that the Amendment would not be Molera for 52,200,000 responses.' , passed by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and • In the Coastal Commission's official opposition to Wildlife when it is heard, sometime .in the late fall. The California State De­ lands continue in lease-back its abolition, Michael Fischer reasoned that "SCA-25 would, "lfthe legislative process fails," she concluded, "then we partment of Parks and Rec­ grazing." if placed on the ballot, bring local coastal programs to a win begin the ballot initiative process and let the people reation (DPR) has nearly fin­ "Normally, our planning grinding halt pending the outcome of the election. In decide whether or not we should abolish the Coastal alized its purchase of the Con'. 011 page 2 addition, SCA-2,5 would abolish the Coastal Commission but Commissions. " 2,650-ac1'e East Molera Ranch for a reported 52.2 mlllion. • The purchase was formally Zad Leavy Reappointed approved by the State Public Works Board at their June 26 Coastal Commissioner meeting. On June 28 the , funds were "encumbered" Zad Leavy of Big Sur has as for the and the been reappointed by Assem­ i.. sale was bly Speaker Leo McCarthy to to a second term as Coastal Commissioner of the Central Coast Regional Coastal Com­ mission, "The rea.PP'>IDtment extend to T~~... ft._. Mr. I'm • vice of Sur Citizen's Advi­ acres. I'm "UDUaal ~mliltlon" his a member of he According to Big Sur Area Commissioner clarified, Manager, Ken Jones, "a full serves as an alternate Commissioner also general planning program Coastal Commissioner to serves as legal counsel for will begin in the fall. Be­ Mary Henderson, who is the the newly-formed Big Sur tween now and the time the central regional representa­ Land Trust, and he practices r·I I general plan is completed. tive at the state level. In law privately. BItING BACK THE DEL MONTE EXPRESSI A cltb:en's e&ID,. continues efforts to NStore tram the local park management addition. he is chairman of In 1974, the Leavys moved IiOniee between Monterey 8Ild San Fnmclseo. See special feature In Section D. Photo by lewfs 10880lyn has recommended that the the Asilomar Conference Con'. on page l fImn the Pat Hathaway CoUedion. • ,.,.2 BIG SUR GAZETTE Mid-July - Mid-August, 1979 Antl·Dlablo Rally, Draws 40,000 • announced before the would attend it. :Sp,ecu.!atJion Brown teU that he would protesltors what wanted woman ROltlst,lI,dt did not hear. His reason a The Abalone was so seemed less important woman in pinCUl'Is not about to see any part of fllllIV-llrOel:'S than having one from the demonstration get out of more person on their side, u ...................."' .... to hear • speakers and singers plOtest We~stulghou5ie, Stanford, and hand - including a candi­ especially when that one the licensing of Diablo. The Cal had words of date fur President of the more is the State's Chief Nothing Uke a Big Crowd peaceful, orderly. alI·day raI· for United States. Had Brown Executive. Iy. organized by the Abalone Just over the San Luis not assured the rally organi. Everyone at the rally. to Draw Candidate Brown Alliance, featured Governor Range in San Luis Obispo. zers that he would do every­ needless·to-say, would like Brown, David BlOwer, Dan· Governor Brown ended his thing in his power to stop to see the Diablo Canyon By Fred W. KlIne lei EIIsberg, Peter Yarrow, short speech to the 40,000 Diablo, he would not have Nuclear Plant be PG&:E's CapItol New. Serriee Jesse Colin Young and 35 anti-Diablo protestors by been allowed to speak. (Tom 51.6 billion tax write-off in • Leaders of the giant rally against the opening of the Diablo others. chanting "No on Diablol" Hayden, who had not taken a 1980. Canyon nuclear power facility near San Luis Obispo had been ttying to get together with Gov. Jerry Brown for six months. After all, they shared a commongoal..... to outlaw all USFS Plans to Buy Pacltle VaDey Laud Endorsed nuclear power plants. That is Brown's latest gamQit in his from the H eraJd could have logged, $319,000 vitality. Otter pointed out that But­ effort to find issues over which he can disagree with President The U.S. Forest Service's for the land itself. "Forty percent of the val­ tle could have logged the _l Carter. plan to buy 278 acres on The property will provide ue of the land is in the redwood· without a permit. So llamally Brown ignored the pleas of the leaders of the Monterey County's South opportunity for hiking, pic­ timber," Johnson said. "and but the federal government Abalone AJJiance and other ifOUps as they tried to interest Coast for public recreation nicking and scenic enjoy· it could be lost in private would require coastal com­ him in their activities. won a favorable nod from ment, according to a federal hands." mission concurrence to do so. That is, he ignored them until it became obvious that a regional coastal commission· environmental assessment. crowd. of 20,000 or so of their supporters would gather to ers. The report notes spectacu· protest the opening of the 51.4 billion facility. Central Coast commission­ lar ocean views from point Aglos Decision Threatens Then, on the Friday night before the weekend event, Brown ers voted unanimously to along . Plaskett Ridge Road decided he would attend the big rally. Not only did he do that. • find the proposed purchase and says that hiking tbrougb PrIvate Property Rights but 1tis presence usurped the other coverage of the event. east of Highway 1 between old growth redwoods along lIrown hijacked the rally for his own political purposes, Pacific Valley and Gorda Reprlntfrom The Reporter obviously. and the news media played right along with him. Plaskett Creek can be "a consistent with the state memorable experience." PaciJic Le8al Foundation lfis one-minute speech. in which he led a "No on Diablo Coastal Act. AaIDI v. Qty of Tlb1UOD Canyon" cheer, earned him front-page coverage, including Coastal planner Lee Otter The California Supreme Court recently issued a decision Final concurrence in the pointed out that federal ac· photos, in many newspapers and top television and radio "consistency determination" wbich gives city· councils and boards of supervisors almost eoveragearound the state and across the nation. quisition will take the pro· complete discretion over the use you can make of your private • required under federal law perty out of the That's exactly what Brown was seeking in hijacking the coastal property. The decision. inA8ins v. City o/Tihuron, denies the must come from state coastal commission jurisdiction but rally, and nobody should be surprised that he did it. He has commissioners. landowner tbe right to sue for just compensation when the pulled such shenanigans before on various issues, consistency determinations value of bis property has been taken away by government The land to be acquired is will stlU be required for any Actually, in defense of the news ~ia.. they l'eally must regulations. and limits the remedy to invalidating the 277.59 acres belonging to development of the property. cover the activities of someone of the stature of Brown. What Elmo L. Buttle~ It is directly regulation. he does is news, even if he doesn't like it sometimes.