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GIFT Guideinside This Week Inside this week … a colorful start to the shopping season featuring ideas to fill GIFTGIFT GUIDEGUIDE stockings and warm hearts! BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID CARMEL, CA Permit No. 149 Volume 94 No. 48 On the Internet: www.carmelpinecone.com November 28-December 4, 2008 Y OUR S OURCE F OR L OCAL N EWS, ARTS AND O PINION S INCE 1915 INCORPORATION C.V. attorney walks away from plane crash DECISION DELAYED ■ ‘I have a lot to be thankful for,’ says Zan Henson By CHRIS COUNTS By KELLY NIX FOR THE supporters and opponents of Carmel A RELAXING 10-day vacation in Baja California nearly Valley’s incorporation, a hearing this week must have felt turned into a tragedy Tuesday night when a Carmel Valley attor- like déja vu all over again. ney returning home crashed his small plane at the entrance to a Two years after the Local Agency Formation Monterey golf course. Commission voted to require proponents to pay for an Zan Henson was piloting a 1970 Piper Cherokee and was set expensive environmental to land at Monterey Peninsula Airport when all of a sudden, the impact report — which plane lost power. After three resulted in an expensive “The realization that, ‘Oh my God, we have no power, we are lawsuit that LAFCO lost going down’ ... that was panic,” Henson told The Pine Cone hours of pros — the same commission Wednesday morning while lying in a bed at Community met this week in the same Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. and cons, Monterey County PHOTOS/KELLY NIX Henson, who was with his best friend, Aptos attorney Jim LAFCO sets Government Building Rummonds, tried to bring the plane down as safely as he could. and discussed the same At CHOMP Wednesday morning, Zan Henson was able to “I had a fleeting hope of landing it on the fairway,” Henson another subject: Should residents smile through the pain of two cracked vertebrae after his said. “I was close.” have an opportunity to 1970 Piper Cherokee crashed the previous evening just hearing vote on Carmel Valley’s short of the runway at Monterey Peninsula Airport. See CRASH page 9A incorporation? After listening to near- ly three hours of testimony, the commission voted unani- mously to delay making any decision on incorporation River School until a Dec. 1 hearing. The commissioners said they’ve been deluged with incorporation paperwork in recent neighbor: Parking days, and need more time to read everything. The hearing — like its predecessor two years ago — hazards drove me offered a wide range of commentary, ranging from scathing and accusatory, to lighthearted and downright to complain funny. Perhaps the biggest difference between the two meet- By MARY BROWNFIELD ings was the fact that one of the speakers had grown sev- eral inches. Carmel Valley resident Emily Robinson, now THE MAN who has single-handedly 15, reminded the commission that she was in the first delayed construction of new classrooms at grade when the incorporation drive began. She urged River School came forward and identified himself this week. See HEARING page 9A Bart Hancock, who lives on Monte Verde, said his reason for complaining to Monterey County planners about proposed improvements on the elementary-school Ex-cop has unique methods Big Sur gets grant to campus is parking, particularly for parents for teaching teen drivers cut fire-prone oaks picking up and dropping off their kids. ‘Most school days’ Traffic in the neighborhood at the start By MARY BROWNFIELD By CHRIS COUNTS and end of each school day “jeopardizes the safety of adults and children alike, and RETIRED AFTER three decades AFTER WATCHING disease-stricken tanbark impedes the flow of traffic through the as a California Highway Patrol officer oak trees light up like Roman candles during last sum- area,” Hancock said, and people park wher- — including a stint as the governor’s mer’s wildfires, Big Sur residents know how danger- ever they can, including in front of his personal driver — Pacific Grove resi- ous a lifeless tree can be. Thankfully, the task of house, which is across the street. dent Richard Richards is not your removing the troublesome trees is not as difficult as “There is some kind of incident on most average driver’s ed teacher. you might think — and it turns out the government will school days as we watch the drama unfold in As an instructor with Drive help pay for it with tax dollars. front of our house,” he said. “People park in Carmel, Richards is known to take his Bob Sayre — a Big Sur resident and vice president my driveway, blocking my driveway, on my work to the next level. Sometimes, of the Monterey Fire Safe Council — has learned that property, double park, park in no-parking he’ll reach over and shut the car off as grant money is available for rural residents seeking to zones, by the fire hydrant, on the corners, the student is driving, to simulate an remove tanbarks killed by sudden oak death. pretty much anywhere a car will fit. It emergency. He’ll have them pull up A group of residents who live on Partington Ridge, makes you feel like a prisoner in your own alongside CHP cars and talk to offi- with Sayre’s assistance, recently received about home. You just cannot plan on leaving your cers — many of whom he knows per- $44,000 from the council to help pay for the removal house during these periods.” sonally. He’ll even let students make of at least 58 dead trees. Encouraged by the success of Hancock, who said he is not the only mistakes, as long as the conditions are the project, Sayre has organized workshop at the Big neighbor to complain to the county, report- safe, so they’ll realize their errors and Sur Lodge Conference Center for Saturday, Dec. 13, ed seeing parents and small children walk- learn from them, and perhaps give up from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. PHOTO/MARY BROWNFIELD ing in the street because there is no space for a little of the cockiness that tends to According to Sayre, United States Forest Service them elsewhere, witnessing numerous near Lessons learned while he was a CHP accompany adolescence. grants are usually matched with local funds, but the officer make Richard Richards an See SCHOOL page 14A unusually qualified driving instructor. See DRIVER page 10A See OAKS page 31A Get your complete Carmel Pine Cone every Thursday evening in convenient pdf format via email. Free subscriptions available at www.carmelpinecone.com. 2A The Carmel Pine Cone November 28, 2008 CHICKEN FIGHT ENDS WITH ZIPPY, GRAY AND BONK VICTORIOUS By KELLY NIX than my cats.” threat to health and safety. Councilman Scott Miller dissent- The debate over the birds began in September after police ed and councilwoman Lisa Bennett was absent. A RUCKUS in Pacific Grove over hens has been received a complaint from Ripple Avenue resident David Perry, who is from Moscow, Russia, said she purchased resolved: The chickens are allowed to roost. Polden. Subsequently, the city’s animal control officer the hens and a rooster after learning that Falcone and The P.G. City Council voted Nov. 19 to permit two home- informed Perry and another chicken-keeping family — Gil Amarillas had chickens at their house. (She gave the rooster owners to continue to keep chickens on their property as pets Falcone and Cristina Amarillas, who live on Del Monte away because of its noisy wake-up call.) despite neighbor complaints they attract flies, are noisy and Boulevard — that their chickens were illegal. Perry said it took the city’s animal control officer two could harbor disease. “I didn’t know I had to have a permit,” said Perry, who weeks after fielding Polden’s complaint to find out where the The owners say that’s all a bunch of hen feathers. acquired the birds in August. hens lived. “I love chickens,” said Olga Perry, one of the chicken After the chicken owners received over-the-counter per- “That proves how quiet they are,” Perry said. keepers who lives on Companion Way. “They are smarter mits to keep the poultry, Polden filed an Oct. 29 appeal, cit- Perry uses the hens’ waste to fertilize her organic garden ing several concerns. which includes garlic, parsley, cilantro, lemons and grape- “I’m worried about the loss of value of my property,” fruit. She expects the birds will start producing eggs soon. Polden wrote to the city council, “as well as that of everyone While Perry eats the eggs her hens produce, she doesn’t living in the town.” include chicken in her diet. “I like to eat fish,” she said. Polden also wrote he was concerned about bird flu. Even Perry’s cats don’t mind the hens, she explained. “While we have had no cases in our area yet,” Polden wrote, “They are always together.” “nothing I’ve read has led me to believe this disease won’t spread at some point in the future.” Neighbors and friends of Perry sent city manager Jim Colangelo notes of support for Perry’s hens, named Zippy, Gray and Bonk. “The chickens give our city special appear- ance, we love them!” a neighbor of Perry’s wrote. “There is no noise, smell or flies around Olga’s house.” “The hens are not to blame for any loss of property value,” another neighbor said. Ultimately, council members agreed, finding that the chickens would not create a property-value issue, or be a Did you know... The Architect of Big Sur: The late Nathaniel Owings was a world-renowned architect who helped build the first sky- PHOTO/KELLY NIX scrapers before he helped preserve Big Sur.
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