Tag: Santa Cruz City Council Tue, May 21, 2013

• City Leaders Discuss Needle Exchange’s Future

  Politics Feb 12, 2013, by Mat Weir 4 Comments
  

  “It saved my life,” says Roxanne Baker of the needle exchange program in Santa Cruz’s Lower Ocean area. Now 60, Baker has long since recovered from a drug addiction that lasted 34 years. But she almost didn’t get the chance. In 1991, her husband contracted AIDS from a dirty syringe.

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• Home Economics of Walnut Commons

  EnvironmentBusiness Jul 10, 2012, by Jacob Pierce 1 Comments
  

  If all goes according to plan, Sue Lawson will leave her home in La Selva Beach, where she’s been 32 years, for a new place where she hopes to really get to know the people around her. Lawson intends to move into a proposed 19-unit housing complex that’s up for a city council vote July 24. It would include a community kitchen and activity room—all in the name of getting to know the people next door a little better. “This is why it’s called an intentional community,” the 74-year-old Lawson says. “We meet once a week, and our building isn’t even going to be built for a year and a half.”

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• Desal EIR Delayed Again

  NewsEnvironmentPolitics Jul 02, 2012, by Jacob Pierce

  The environmental impact report for the Santa Cruz desal plant, originally due September 2011, has been delayed a second time. Now city staff has given up on estimating specific months and instead started ballparking seasons.

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• Two-Way Pacific Plan Moves Forward

  NewsBusiness May 24, 2012, by Jacob Pierce 5 Comments
  

  In an effort to stimulate business downtown and make Pacific Avenue more navigable, the Downtown Commission voted this morning to proceed with a plan that would turn the majority of Pacific Avenue into a two-way street.

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• CIty Council OKs Warriors Deal

  PoliticsSports May 23, 2012, by Jacob Pierce

  Santa Cruz, home to a variety of extreme sports, seems to be on the verge of getting a basketball team too. The Santa Cruz City Council voted unanimously yesterday to approve a deal and the outlay of $3.5 million that could send the minor league Dakota Wizards, a feeder team for the Golden State Warriors, straight into the arms of Surf City.

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• Candidate Urges Limits on Campaign Funding

  NewsPolitics May 08, 2012, by Jacob Pierce
  

  Micah Posner, who announced his run for Santa Cruz City Council last month, is planning his campaign around a few things: his familiarity with transportation and land use issues, his work as an activist and his decision to limit the amount of money he spends on his campaign this year—and by extension the amount of contributions he accepts.

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• Posner to Run for Santa Cruz Council

  EnvironmentPolitics Apr 13, 2012, by Jacob Pierce 2 Comments
  

  People Power director Micah Posner announced his decision to run for Santa Cruz City Council this morning, April 13, citing his knowledge of city politics and his understanding of social movements. Posner, who will be leaving his post at the alternative transportation-based organization on July 1, says he knows how to effect change by combining those experiences.

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