City of Pacific Grove Government News

Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Peake seemed determined to run for a fourth term—he took out candidate filing papers on the first day of the nomination period, July 15, according to the P.G. City Clerk's office—but about a week later he returned those papers, withdrawing from the race.

Anyone who has encountered the five-way stop intersection of Sunset Drive, Congress Avenue and Cedar Street in Pacific Grove knows how baffling it can be figuring out who has the right of way.

One of the most popular outdoor dining parklets in Pacific Grove and two of its neighbors will be dismantled later this year, to be replaced by extended sidewalks and "light footprint" structures at an estimated cost of $400,000.

A four-member majority of the Pacific Grove City Council on Wednesday, June 5, rejected Mayor Bill Peake's request to remove Economic Development Commissioner Mike Gibbs from his position.

A member of the Pacific Grove Economic Development Commission and persistent critic of the city's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force, Mike Gibbs, is facing removal from his position.

For years, opponents of a proposed luxury resort hotel to replace the American Tin Cannery contended the project was too large and not properly vetted by the City of Pacific Grove.

The proposal to convert an employee parking lot at 16th Avenue between the Pacific Grove Fire Department and Youth Center into a smooth surface with wooden ramps for a three to six month trial was denied over cost.

The Pacific Grove City Council voted 4-2 on Wednesday, March 20 to once again stop a proposed skatepark project.

The City of Pacific Grove is on its way to switching from at-large to district elections, after the P.G. City Council voted 5-0 on Wednesday, March 6, to hire a demographer to study the makeup of P.G. residents—the first step…

Former Pacific Grove city manager Ben Harvey is currently the top candidate for the same job in Ojai, in Ventura County, less than six months after he agreed to a mutual separation with the P.G. City Council.

Pacific Grove officially said goodbye to the Feast of Lanterns, the town’s troubled faux Chinese pageant. Now the Monterey Bay Chinese Association wants to build a traditional pavilion and a moon wall to honor the history of Chinese Americans.

A majority of the Pacific Grove City Council in April all but killed the idea of a permanent skatepark in the town with a 5-2 vote, bowing to pressure by residents who feared such a facility would bring noise.

The city councils of Monterey and Pacific Grove have each approved ordinances allowing retail cannabis in the past few weeks, with Monterey best poised to issue business licenses on a faster timeline than its neighbor. Monterey could begin reviewing cannabis…

The city councils of Monterey and Pacific Grove have each approved ordinances allowing retail cannabis, with Monterey best poised to issue business licenses on a faster timeline.

Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Peake has decided to end Zoom call-ins to meetings two weeks after an organized group of white supremacists call-bombed a council meeting.

Confusion over how city code meshes with state liquor licenses was the reason given by members of the Pacific Grove Planning Commission for why they wanted to review the approved administrative use permit.

A new luxury boutique hotel in downtown Pacific Grove—over a decade in the making—finally broke ground on Sept. 29.

A chorus of conflicting wants and needs are crashing together on a research building of the former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency.

Over 60 people showed up to Pacific Grove City Hall, both in person and online, almost all to support a proposed downtown all-ages live music venue.

Former City Attorney David Laredo and his law firm agreed to pay $989,000 over the firm's mistake in using the wrong tax code a sales tax ballot measure.

Michaela Kuenster has plans to open a music venue with alcohol sales in downtown Pacific Grove, a town where a small but loud cadre oppose most everything new.

Just as Pacific’s Grove Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force got a new member it simultaneously lost another to a resignation.

Less than a week after parting ways with their last city manager, members of the Pacific Grove City Council voted to form a subcommittee to search for the next one.

The Pacific Grove City Council voted 6-0 in a closed session meeting for a separation agreement with City Manager Ben Harvey, who will voluntarily resign.

The mission of the Pacific Grove Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force is to make the small town a more welcoming place for underrepresented groups.

Pacific Grove’s current outdoor dining parklets are unsafe for pedestrians and drivers and must be replaced, according to a majority of the City Council.

City expenditures are split among essential needs and quality-of-life benefits in a budgeting process. And with the fiscal year beginning July 1, government entities, including Monterey County’s 12 cities, are in various stages of tweaking and finalizing their annual budgets.