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Arrests
Cody Calhoun Davis, 20, arrested for disorderly conduct: alcohol and underage in possession of alcohol in public in the North Village on Jan. 2
Gregorio Botello, 20, arrested for driving without a license on Main Street on Jan. 2
Matthew John Smith, arrested for assault with a deadly weapon: not a firearm or means likely to produce great bodily harm and possession/making/selling a dangerous weapon on Center Street on Jan. 3
Randia Katherine Rayle, 20, arrested for battery on a cohabitant/spouse/other on Hidden Valley Road on Jan. 3
Bren Ray Shamel, 36, arrested for resisting/obstructing an officer, operating a motor vehicle with the intent to evade, willfully flee or otherwise elude a pursuing peace officer and driving with a suspended license on Lodestar Drive on Jan 4
Geri Loverme, 50, arrested for disorderly conduct: alcohol on the corner of Minaret Road and Lake Mary Road on Jan. 4
Nicholas K. Burgess, 21, arrested for disorderly conduct: alcohol on the corner of Minaret Road and Lake Mary Road on Jan. 4
Citations
Shoplifting citation issued on Minaret Road on Jan. 2
Stoplamps required citation issued on Sierra Nevada Road on Jan. 2
Underage in possession of alcohol in public in North Village on Jan. 2
No street parking citation issued on Rainbow Lane on Jan. 2
No street parking citation issued on Rainbow Lane on Jan. 2
No street parking citation issued on Rainbow Lane on Jan. 2
No parking zone citation issued on Lakeview Boulevard on Jan. 2
No parking zone citation issued on Lakeview Boulevard on Jan. 2
No parking zone citation issued on Lakeview Boulevard on Jan. 2
No parking zone citation issued on Lakeview Boulevard on Jan. 2
Parking/stopping within 15 feet of a fire hydrant citation issued on Rainbow Lane on Jan. 2
No parking zone citation issued on Lakeview Boulevard on Jan. 2
No parking zone citation issued on Lakeview Boulevard on Jan. 2
Driving without a license citation issued on Main Street on Jan. 2
Unregistered vehicle citation issued on Lee Road on Jan. 3
Failure to yield right of way citation issued on Old Mammoth Road on Jan. 4
Unregistered vehicle citation issued on Meridian Boulevard on Jan. 4
Stop sign limit line citation issued on Azimuth on Jan. 4
Resisting/obstructing a peace officer citation issued on Lodestar Drive on Jan. 4
Disorderly conduct: alcohol citation issued on the corner of Minaret Road and Lake Mary Road on Jan. 4
Disorderly conduct: alcohol citation issued on the corner of Minaret Road and Lake Mary Road on Jan. 4
Using cell phone while driving citation issued on Meridian Boulevard on Jan. 4
Incidents
Grand theft property: $400+ incident reported on Meadow Lane on Jan. 2
Driving without a license incident reported on Main Street on Jan. 2
Petty theft incident reported on Sierra Nevada Road on Jan. 2
Unauthorized use of personal information incident reported on Jan. 2
Hit and run: failure to locate/notify owner incident reported on Meridian Boulevard on Jan. 2
Assault with a deadly weapon: not a firearm or means likely to produce great bodily harm incident reported on Lupin Street on Jan. 3
Lost property found incident reported in the North Village
Vehicle towed on South Frontage Road Jan. 3
Burlary incident reported on Main Street on Jan. 3
Defrauding the ski area incident reported at Chair 4 on Jan. 3
Defrauding the ski area incident reported at Canyon Lodge on Jan. 3
Hit and run: failure to locate/notify owner incident reported in Vons parking lot on Jan. 4
Resisting/obstructing a peace officer incident reported on Lodestar Drive on Jan. 4
Disorderly conduct: alcohol incident reported on corner of Minaret Boulevard and Lake Mary Road on Jan. 4 |
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Monday, 26 November 2007 |
Mammoth Lakes Housing and Planning Commission hear from public about concrete walls
By Lara Kirkner
Mammoth Times Staff Writer
 The garage at the Aspen Village Condos, now under construction, was originally supposed to be underground parking, but was switched to aboveground at the last minute—much to the dismay of Snowcreek IV homeowners who now have this concrete slab to look at through their windows.MAMMOTH TIMES PHOTO/LARA KIRKNER
The first was the parking garage at the Aspen Village condos, an affordable housing complex currently under construction. While this is not a development for the ritzy tourist, it does abut Snowcreek IV, which has several homeowners, including some second homeowners, who will be looking at a concrete slab out their windows from here on out, instead of the beautiful view of the Sherwins they once had.
Phil Benefiel, a resident at Snowcreek IV, spoke at the Mammoth Lakes Housing Board meeting as well as the Planning Commission meeting last week to express the homeowners' dismay over the development. The crux of the whole thing, according to Benefiel, is that originally the parking garage was supposed to be underground but was switched to aboveground at the last minute, and, as Benefiel put it, “rubber stamped” by the Planning Commission and Town Council when the homeowners filed an appeal.
“We accepted the fact that we were going to have to lose our views,” Benefiel said, “but putting this unsightly building there is like rubbing salt in our wounds.”
After seeing the way the structure was progressing, one of Benefiel's neighbors, who lives in Southern California, proclaimed he wouldn't need to waste his gas coming to Mammoth anymore because now he had the same view here as he does in the City of Industry.
Benefiel stated that if 80|50's garage in the Village is the Berlin Wall, as some in town have begun to call it, then the garage at Aspen Village is the Great Wall of China.
“At least 80|50 intends to cover theirs up eventually,” Benefiel said. “Mammoth Lakes Housing plans to leave their parking structure bare. This garage dwarfs 80|50's project.”
Mammoth Lakes Housing staff reported that there will eventually be some landscaping around the garage, and were excited that the entire project was progressing quickly with crews working seven days a week to try and get it done.
As for that 80|50 garage, the Planning Commission discussed it once again at its meeting last week. The issue with this garage is that it has proceeded while the units planned to be placed on top of it have not. 80|50 wanted to achieve occupancy of the parking structure as soon as possible prior to completing the units, and were requesting they be allowed to provide an interim treatment to the concrete facade, pending completion of the full project. In other words, they wanted their pig spruced up a bit as well.
Their proposal included the request to install the following:
1. Under-treatment for the rock wall facing, as temporary colored and textured “stucco” wall treatment over the existing exposed concrete of all the exterior walls of the parking garage and defer the placement of the rock facing.
2. Soil berming installed to within five feet of the roof deck elevation. The proposal includes a private pedestrian walkway system which will be areas lighted by down-directed fixtures with cut-off shields.
3. Landscape planting of trees and ground cover at the perimeter of the 80|50 Building C parking garage.
The point of doing all of this interim work is to mitigate the unfinished appearance of the structure until such time as the completion of the upper portion of the building is undertaken.
This garage also abuts current residents who live at Fireside Condominiums, and affects some of their views as well. A representative of Fireside, Tracy Spencer, felt very strongly that a conditional certificate of occupancy should only be allowed if there were a “what if” clause to determine what would happen if 80|50 does not complete the project by the extended 2010 date Town staff suggested the Planning Commission allow.
Town staff said the “what if” was that if the project is not completed by the 2010 date then 80|50's permits would expire. The Town plans to have a bond in place so that if 80|50 does not move the project forward, the bond would allow the Town to do so, similar to the scenario currently going on with the Tallus bike path bridge.
The Planning Commission felt that this was sufficient and gave consensus to allow the interim improvements and grant the 2010 extension.
Other MLH and Planning Commission items
The Planning Commission approved tandem parking and mechanical lifts within the Mammoth Hillside parking garage with a 5-0 vote. The Mammoth Hillside project was approved in January 2006 and is moving forward under the new ownership of Cypress Equities. The Planning Commission's vote also granted a time extension of the project approvals for one year.
The Mammoth Lakes Housing Board adopted an appreciation sharing model into their toolbox for trying to help locals get into affordable housing. The appreciation sharing model will be used in the way MLH loans out money.
MLH also gave an update on current projects, reporting that the Jeffreys are 100 percent occupied. San Joaquin Villas—which Board member Rusty Gregory made sure to point out is not an MLH project, but just something they inherited from a guy who just left the country (Benno Nager of Intrawest)—is experiencing some bumps in the road as they try to sell. The Board was astonished to hear from MLH Executive Director Pam Hennarty that the Villas had only received their certificates of occupancy last week even though people have been occupying many of the units for months. Apparently the developers were confused as to what exactly a certificate of occupancy looked like and thought they had the correct paperwork before them, when in fact they actually did not.
The next Planning Commission meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 9 a.m. in Suite Z.
Visit www.mammothlakeshousing.com to find out the date of the next Board meeting.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 November 2007 )
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