City of Sand City Government News and Articles

The vision for Sand City’s Art Park was hatched during the height of the pandemic, when the community still wanted to socialize, but also stay outside and at a distance. Whether or not the term “social distancing” will stand the…

For decades, Sand City has had dreams of hotels along its beaches, which culminated in just a single project gaining conditional approval – the Monterey Bay Shores “eco-resort” north of Scribble Hill, a project that is still collecting dust while…

There aren’t many hurdles left to clear for Monterey-Salinas Transit’s SURF! project, which is planned to be a rapid transit busway between Marina and Sand City, and would have its own, separated roadway to the west of Highway 1 between…

Sara Rubin here, thinking about the many city services I use every day, sometimes without thinking about them—storm drains and asphalt maintenance are not always so obvious to me. Then, of course, there are things that are more explicitly transactional—checking…

Just yesterday, Weekly Editor Sara Rubin wrote in this newsletter about the incredible 10-year journey of Matika Wilbur, an Indigenous woman from the Swinomish and Tulalip tribes of coastal Washington who set out across America to document the stories of…

Starting in the late 1960s, Sand City, population 325, established a reputation as a hub for local artists as a place to both work and live. Though the city is almost entirely concrete and buildings – aside from some dune…

A San Diego real estate tech firm has purchased The Independent luxury rental building in Sand City, paying $20 million in a bet on the Monterey Peninsula real estate market.

The ongoing housing crisis has the state of California getting serious about cities and counties zoning for more housing units, after years of failing at creating more desperately needed homes. It's now creating discomfort for many local officials who need…

At approximately 347 acres, tiny Sand City doesn’t have much room to spare. That there is nearly an acre of land for each of its 372 residents is deceiving. The tiny town is hemmed in by protected coastal zone habitat…

Sand City has long had the most idiosyncratic identity of any place on the Monterey Peninsula, and on March 15, its City Council made a decision that sets it apart even more: The council hired a woman to be the…