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SOILING OVER How the Beach Flats Community Garden negotiations went wrong P20

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EDITOR’S NOTE Wiser folks than I have said that in life, the journey is more important than the destination, and that’s sometimes the key to understanding news stories, as well. There’s been a lot of reporting in the last several months (including in this paper) about the fight over the Beach Flats Community Garden. But Jacob Pierce’s cover story this week asks a deeper, more analytical question about this often emotional issue: how exactly did we get to this point? Both the Seaside Company and the Beach Flats

gardeners believe they have done the best they can for this cherished piece of land, but somehow in the course of negotiating over it, some serious bad blood has developed. The article explains why, and takes a close look at the role the city of Santa Cruz has played. I think it’s a great read that sheds light not only on this specific story, but also on a larger view of how the political process can go wrong on most any issue, even when those involved want it to go right. Also, our Visitor Guide is out this week, and we’re particularly proud of it. It’s a handy guide to this area’s food and drink scene, nightlife, attractions, shops and more. Look for it wherever you pick up GT around the county. STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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SANTA CRUZ’S SEGREGATION

Congratulations to Geoffrey Dunn for his great history lesson regarding Juneteenth and London Nelson (GT, 6/8). It is particularly ironic that someone like Robert Burton, described as a Santa Cruz high teacher, Sentinel “historian,” former Santa Cruz city school board member (like myself) and member of the Santa Cruz county board of supervisors would be the one to identify his first name correctly. During my own tenure on the SC school district board of trustees, we were made aware of the excessively high number of African-American students who were diagnosed as needing “special education.” At the time, it seemed particularly ironic and grossly racist that African-American students were being segregated to such a high degree in a school district that owes its economic survival in 1860 to a freed former slave from North Carolina. That sad practice started to come to an end in my final year on the SC board of trustees, and I am hopeful we won’t return to a time where attitudes like Robert Burton’s are the norm. It is a fact, however, that from time to time I encountered racial attitudes like those of Mr. Burton among the supposedly highly enlightened educational elite of Santa Cruz. And the small, small number of teachers of color in the Santa Cruz public schools are

just another indicator of the smug, selfcongratulatory attitudes of some of the educational leadership in Santa Cruz. I say to those people of color in Santa Cruz: it is time to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Attend the school board meetings and raise your voices! STEVE TRUJILLO | WATSONVILLE

SENSIBLE, NOT SINGLE-ISSUE Re: “Driving the Issue” (GT, 6/8): I am a founding member of the Campaign for Sensible Transportation. I am the former co-chair of this group (with Paul Elerick) and continue to be active as its treasurer and webmaster. We have definitely not been “hijacked by single-issue environmentalists who ignore the county's serious transportation problems and only care about global warming.” In fact, we are greatly concerned about our transportation problems, and would strongly support a ballot measure that addresses them with cost-effective proposals. A primary defect of the currently proposed ballot measure is that it continues to stress that in order to relieve traffic congestion on Highway 1 we must provide additional road capacity for vehicles, nearly all of which are singleoccupant automobiles. It would spend approximately $100 million (about 25 percent) of the funds raised on adding three auxiliary lane >8

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An Aptos man raising funds for a new moisturizer is $300 short of his $2,500 goal, with one week to go. Morgan Hertz has launched a fundraising drive for Go Feed Your Skin, and hopes to move forward quickly with his Santa Cruz Salve and Santa Cruz Body Butter, each available in a few different scents. He first developed his creams to treat his own eczema. For more information, visit www.gofeedyourskin.com.

The Santa Cruz Playground Project celebrated a milestone this past weekend in its efforts to build the county’s first universally accessible playground at Chanticleer Park. County and community leaders unveiled plans and a fundraising goal of $1.9 million on Sunday. The playground, LEO’s Haven, was partly inspired by a young boy in a wheelchair named Oliver. The name comes from him and his two sisters, Lauren and Evelyn.

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What do you think about the Uber and Airbnb business models? BY MATTHEW COLE SCOTT

In some ways they’re awesome, but I can see how Airbnb is making the rental market really tough for a lot of people. KELLY GAVIN SANTA CRUZ | TELEVISION PRODUCER

As a taxi driver in Santa Cruz, Uber is making it harder to make a living. They’re putting us out of business, and they’re not regulated. RYAN SKOTLAND SANTA CRUZ | TAXI DRIVER

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of June 15 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 The coming months will be a favorable time to boost your skills as a cagey warrior. I don’t mean you should push people around and get into lots of fights. Rather, the goal is for you to harness your aggressiveness constructively and to wield your willpower with maximum grace. In the face of fear, you will not just be brave, but brave and crafty. You’ll refrain from forcing storylines to unfold before they’re ready, and you’ll rely on strategy and good timing instead of brute strength and the decree “Because I said so.” Now study this counsel from the ancient Chinese statesman Zhuge Liang, also known as Crouching Dragon: “The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.”

TAURUS Apr20–May20 Everything you do in the coming days should be imbued with the intention of enhancing the Flow. It’s high time to identify where the energy is stuck, and then get it unstuck. You have a sacred mandate to relieve the congestion … to relax the tweaks … to unravel the snarls if you can, or simply cut through them if necessary. You don’t need to tell anyone about your secret agenda. Just go about your business with zealous diligence and unflagging purpose. If it takes more effort than you wished, so be it. If your progress seems maddeningly gradual, keep the faith.

GEMINI May21–June20 My long-term predictions for the next 15 months are a blend of hopeful optimism and a reasonable interpretation of the astrological omens. Here we go: 1. You will have an excellent chance to smooth and soothe the rough spots in your romantic karma. 2. You will outgrow any addiction you might have to frustrating connections. 3. Unrequited love will either be requited, or else you’ll become bored with the futile chase and move on. 4. You’ll be challenged to either refresh and reinvent an existing intimacy, or else get shrewd enough not to repeat past mistakes in a new intimacy. 5. You will have an abundance of good ideas about how to install the theme of smart fun at the heart of your strongest alliances.

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LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 During the next 15 months, you will have an unprecedented chance to materialize a fantasy you’ve harbored for years. Essential to your efforts will be a capacity to summon more ambition than you ever have before. I’m not talking about the grubby self-promotion that typically passes for ambition, however. Arrogant self-importance and selfish posturing will not be part of your winning formula. Rather, the kind of ambition I’m referring to is a soaring aspiration that seeks the best and highest not just for yourself but for everyone whose life you touch. I mean the holy hunger that drives you to express impeccable integrity as you seek to master the tasks you came to Earth to accomplish. Get started!

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 During the next 15 months, composting should be a primary practice, as well as a main metaphor. If you have been lazy about saving leftover scraps from your kitchen and turning them into fertilizer, now is an excellent time to intensify your efforts. The same is true if you have been lax about transforming your pain into useful lessons that invigorate your lust for life. Be ever-alert for opportunities to capitalize on junk, muck, and slop. Find secret joy in creating unexpected treasure out of old failures and wrong turns.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 Have you ever made a fool of yourself while trying to fulfill your deepest yearnings? I hope so. If you haven’t, your yearnings probably aren’t deep enough. Most of us, on multiple occasions, have pursued our longings for connection with such unruly intensity that we have made foggy decisions and engaged in questionable behavior. That’s the weird news. The good news is that now and then, the impulse to leave our safety zone in a quest to quench our deepest yearnings can actually make us smarter and more effective. I believe this is one of those times for you.

Author Courttia Newland quotes the pre-Socratic philosopher Meno: “How will you go about finding the thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?” In response to this riddle, Newland riffs on what it means to him: “Even more important than the journey itself, is the venture into the unknowable. The ability to find comfort moving forwards without quite knowing where you are going.” I nominate these to be your words to live by in the coming days, Cancerian. Have open-hearted fun as you go in search of mysterious and impossible secrets! I’m confident you will track them down—especially if you’re willing to be lost.

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The prison population in the U.S. is over two million, more than twice what it was in 1990. In contrast, Canada keeps about 41,000 people in jail, Italy 52,000, and France 66,000. That’s the bad news. The good news, at least for you and your tribe, is that a relatively small percentage of you will be incarcerated during the next 15 months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Aquarians all over the world will specialize in liberation. Not only will you be extra ethical; not only will you be skillful at evading traps; you will also be adept at emancipating yourself from your own delusions and limitations. Congratulations in advance! It’s time to start singing some new freedom songs.

Your homework is to write a story about the life you’re going to live between now and next April. The length of this predictive tale should be at least three pages, although it’s fine if you produce more. Here are some meditations to lubricate the flow of your imagination. 1. What three questions would you love to have answered during the next 42 weeks? 2. Of the numerous adventures that might be fun to explore, which are the two that would be most consistently energizing? 3. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about your attitude or revamp about your life? 4. What new privilege will you have earned by April 2017?

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 According to an old Chinese proverb, if you want to get rich, you must have a nickname. My meditations on your future suggest that this curious formula may have some validity. The next 15 months will be a favorable time to attend to the groundwork that will ultimately increase your wealth. And your luck in doing this work is likely to be oddly good if you add a frisky tweak to your identity— such as a zesty new nickname, for example. I suggest you stay away from clichés like Ace or Vixen or Sharpie,

During the next 13 months, what can you do to enhance your ability to be the boss of yourself? What practices can you engage in on a daily basis that will build your potency and authority and clout? How can you gain access to more of the helpers and resources you need to carry out your life’s master plan? These are excellent questions to ask yourself every day between now and July 2017. It’s time to find or create your ultimate power spot.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 The English word “catharsis” is derived from the ancient Greek katharsis, which was a technical medical term that meant “purgation” or “purification,” as in flushing out the bowels. Aristotle converted katharsis into a metaphor that described how a drama performed in the theater could “clean out” the emotions of spectators. These days, catharsis may refer to any event that precipitates a psycho-spiritual renewal by building up and then releasing tension. I foresee at least one of these strenuous blessings in your immediate future.

Homework: If you could change your astrological sign, what would you change it to and why? Go to Freewillastrology.com and click “Email Rob.”

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hours to get the same mood effects (tolerance), be distressed if unable to work (withdrawal), fail to control time spent working (relapse), and suffer negative consequences as a result of working too much (problems). Mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, relapse, and problems are all components of a biopsychosocial framework of addiction. Beyond being associated with poor psychological health, working too much can also degrade physical health. A 2015 meta-analysis published in The Lancet looked at 25 previous studies from the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Findings showed that those who worked long hours, which they define as 55 or more per week, were 13 percent more likely to suffer from coronary heart disease. The same group was 33 percent more likely to suffer a stroke than their counterparts who worked normal hours defined as 35-40 hours per week. Many workers, especially in industries like service and retail, have little paid time off, and work major holidays. The Obama administration recently finalized a law to expand overtime pay to salaried workers making less than $47,476 per year, but since employers have a number of options for compliance, including raising salaries above the threshold, it’s not yet clear if it will change the hours in many workweeks. So how does one maintain a healthy psyche and body when the hamster wheel doesn’t slow down, let alone stop? In contrast to the U.S., the European Union requires that its citizens have at least 20 paid vacation days per year, and some member nations require even more than that. Perhaps Europeans know that when it comes to work, less can often be more. A 2008 study by the Families & Work Institute found that paid vacation resulted in several positive outcomes. “Having paid vacation time bodes well for personal health and well-being as well as job satisfaction and intent to stay in one’s job,” said the study’s authors.

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ver millennia, the Napa River deposited much of the soil that supports the valley’s vast carpet of vines. But for 40 years, the Environmental Protection Agency has classified the waterway as “impaired” by excessive levels of pathogens, sediment and oxygen-depleting nutrients like nitrates and phosphates, which are discharged from wastewater treatment plants, and runoff from cattle ranches and vineyards. The nutrients have spurred excessive algal growth. The algae choke the

river and lower levels of dissolved oxygen, which is critical for salmon, steelhead trout, and other species. While the river is cleaner than it once was, and some riparian habitat has been restored, the feds still consider its steelhead population threatened and its Chinook salmon endangered. As for the native coho salmon? Extinct since the 1960s. In recent years, the state has limited three Napa Valley cities from discharging treated wastewater into the Napa River during periods of lowbase flow, a directive that has helped

improve water quality to the point where the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board in 2014 recommended lifting its “impaired” classification for nutrients. The board is also preparing its first-ever erosioncontrol rules for agriculture, with a draft environmental impact report expected this summer. Chris Malan, Napa County’s most ardent environmentalist, has been working to improve the river for decades. Back in the early 2000s, she donned a snorkel and mask to survey creeks in the Napa >14

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Mark Mesiti-Miller’s passion for transportation planning in Santa Cruz is perhaps best told by his wife, Donna Murphy. On a recent Napa getaway, MesitiMiller took her on a detour, away from the vineyard tours, to the wine country’s lesserknown draw: its developing rail system and accompanying rail trail. “It had nothing to do with our trip, but our curiosity,” says Murphy, UC Santa Cruz vice chancellor before she retired in 2013, describing their exploration of how the Napa trail is laid out, and how the stations and railroads interact. A retired civil engineer, Mesiti-Miller is consumed by his curiosity for housing and transportation. Since selling his firm last year, Mesiti-Miller, a Santa Cruz planning commissioner, has closely studied the developing Santa Cruz Corridor plan, which will aim to increase density on major thoroughfares. He’s spoken during public comment in meetings on a range of topics, like the possible November ballot measure for transportation, and has hosted events to discuss passenger rail in Santa Cruz along the coast. “His mind’s always kind of gnawing on different issues,” says Murphy. “He reads a lot, and so he tracks these things. If he’s read something about a complete street, then as we’re driving down, he’ll study it. If he’s looking at housing density and we’re driving around town, we’re looking at the scale of buildings, how the roads work, et cetera.” The planning commission published its General Plan 2030 four years ago, and along with it a corresponding land-use map. Mesiti-Miller’s vision for Santa Cruz, also laid out in the plan, centers around its corridors. These are the city’s commercial hubs where most of the mom and pop shops, drugstores, bakeries and markets are, along Soquel Avenue, Water, Ocean and Mission streets. Mesiti-Miller calls for mixed-use development along these thoroughfares, with ground-floor commercial space, and above that, affordable housing. “The most sustainable way to grow a community is vertically and along its corridors,” says Mesiti-Miller. “It’s >17

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#ChooseSantaCruz By Datta Khalsa, Broker The City of Santa Cruz recently put on a State of the City presentation at the Hotel Paradox to a packed room. Those in attendance were treated to a look back at the 150 years since Santa Cruz was first incorporated, followed by a look at current issues and a look toward the future through a strategic plan being implemented from 2015 through 2020. Santa Cruz has an image and impact worldwide that far exceeds the 64,632 people who live here year round. This is in large part thanks to the many prominent companies who started here, along with a growing number of national companies choosing to open offices in Santa Cruz in the past few years. Powered by our unique cultural identity and the natural beauty of the Central Coast, our biggest draw continues to be a strong tourism industry (with the Boardwalk alone bringing well over 3 million people annually), and the City is rising to meet that demand with 801 new hotel rooms either recently opened or approved. Most prominent among these is the La Bahia, which will be a 165-unit hotel with conference and banquet space, restaurant, retail space and spa facilities.

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With our median price for homes at $798,000 county-wide, and the average rent for a 2-bedroom apartment at $2400 per month, the cost of living is another priority being addressed through the robust approval of no less than 10 multi-residential projects currently under construction. These include several which are specifically designated as low-income housing for those not fortunate enough to be members of the less than 30% of Santa Cruz County residents who can afford to buy a home here. There are also at least another 10 projects approved/waiting to be built and at least another 10 applications underway.

A few of the larger projects include: multiple 3- and 4-story mixed-use developments of residential units over street level commercial suites along the city’s 4 main arteries of transportation; a project on the Westside which will add 400,000sf of industrial space plus 248 residential units; several live/work developments; a 51-unit senior/memory care facility on Jewell Street; and a 63-unit affordable housing development on Ocean Street with 6700sf of commercial space. There are also multiple commercial and cultural developments in the approval and construction process, including an 8,405sf for commercial use on Ocean Street and the new venue for Santa Cruz Shakespeare being constructed up by DeLaveaga Golf Course. For those interested in development, or in opening or moving a business here, the City’s Economic Development office is an excellent resource (@ SantaCruzEDO, #ChooseSantaCruz or ChooseSantaCruz.com). And for my part, connecting the developer and entrepreneurial community with the many emerging housing, commercial and business opportunities we have in the area is one of the most enjoyable aspects of what I do. Datta Khalsa is the broker and owner at Main Street Realtors in Soquel. He can be reached at (831)818-0181 or datta@mainstrealtors.com Paid Advertorial

River watershed for steelhead. In her run for a seat on the Napa County Board of Supervisors, she called for a moratorium on new wineries in Napa County. Her platform did not endear her to the wine industry, and she failed to make it past the June 7 primary. Malan welcomes the state’s new ag-related erosion-control rules, and she gives credit to winegrowers who have worked with the county and state to implement best-management practices on their property. But she strongly opposes delisting the river for nutrients because many of its tributaries are still often choked with algae—a point she made to the water

board by presenting video footage of Tulocay Creek, a major tributary to the Napa River. “You couldn’t see the surface of the water,” Malan says. “It was covered with a green mat of algae for as far as you could see.” Malan says nutrients from vineyards have gone unregulated, and must be brought into compliance. “We have to hit the pause button,” she says. “We’ve got to figure out how to get this right, because it’s just not OK to kill all the fish and have people drink polluted water.” Arcata-based fisheries biologist Patrick Higgins, who has worked on steelhead and salmon restoration for 20 years, also opposes the water

board’s recommendation to delist the river. The ongoing drought, he says, plus illegal water diversions and groundwater pumping, result in less water to dilute pollutants in the river. Water temperatures are rising and fish populations are trying to hang on, he says. “Steelhead trout now inhabit less than 20 percent of their former habitats in the Napa River basin because of flow diminishment,” he wrote in comments to the water board. Those fish, he said, “will go extinct if more decisive action is not taken.” Napa County environmentalist Mike Hackett says activists have worked hard to protect agriculture, and that it’s now time to protect the watershed. The initiative aims to protect the >16

NEWS BRIEFS TAKING A STRAND Kids with cancer may be better off if they live in California, attendees of the Kids Cancer Summit at Seymour Marine Discovery Center learned last week. UCSC’s Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative (TCCI), a program of the Genomics Institute, furthers research for pediatric cancer locally, with a goal to scale the project globally. “Make no mistake. Cancer is a genetic disease. It’s caused by changes in DNA,” said David Haussler, scientific director of the Genomics Institute, explaining that adult cancer is more influenced by lifestyle and environmental factors, but when it comes to childhood cancer, random mutations are the primary cause. TCCI lead researcher Olena Morozova said treatment options for pediatric cancer are limited because pharmaceutical companies focus on adult cancers, where there are more cases. At the genetic level, types of cancers once considered different are actually similar, new research is showing. This may explain why patients with the same type of cancer often don’t respond to similar

treatment: The cancers are different at the DNA level. TCCI began California Kids Cancer Comparison to sequence the genome of tumors, from both adults and children, to observe DNA patterns. When researchers find similar patterns in an adult and pediatric cancer, they can usually try out an adult treatment for the child. In 2000, UCSC’s Genomics Institute was the first to post the human genome on the Internet, open-source—an extraordinary act of selflessness for the benefit all of humankind. Today, 130,000 researchers use the site, which gets 1.2 million hits per day. Now, many of competing researchers won’t share. The TCCI needs funds, but the real obstacle, Haussler explains, is that genome data is held in institutes that keep it to themselves, due to concerns about privacy breaches, a desire to keep research exclusive, and other excuses. “The message here is about sharing,” Haussler said. JEANNE HOWARD

MERGING MATTER A four-page glossy mailer laying out a new vision for transportation

went out to likely voters recently. The green-and-white pamphlet from the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) proposes an array of funding for local roads, highway widening, bike projects, buses and rail improvements. The plan—although the flyer makes no mention of it—would be funded by a possible new quarter-cent sales tax measure, which will probably hit ballots this fall. Jack Nelson, a critic of the RTC’s plan, has lobbied the RTC hard to remove the 25 percent allocation for the highway from the proposed measure. He says the RTC wasted public money trying to sell its tax measure with the pamphlet. “You’d hardly know that they want to widen the highway on here,” says Nelson, co-chair of the Campaign for Sensible Transportation, of the flyer. “You just see a bunch of smiling kids on bikes, and help for Paratransit.” The mailer does mention easing highway congestion, next to a picture of an ambulance sitting in traffic. And in a bullet point toward the bottom, it mentions adding highway auxiliary lanes. The flyer, which cost

the RTC $25,000, aims to inform residents about the Transportation Improvement Plan (TRIP), says RTC spokesperson Karena Pushnik, and to promote an RTC meeting on Thursday, June 16 at 9 a.m. in the Santa Cruz City Council Chambers. That’s when RTC commissioners are expected to approve putting a measure on the November ballot. Longtime environmentalist Rick Longinotti filed a complaint with the Fair and Political Practices Commission (FPPC) over the RTC’s use of public funds for the mailer. But Bruce Van Allen, Nelson’s fellow co-chair, doesn’t see anything nefarious. He says agencies often inform voters about their needs before campaign season arrives. “It’s a pretty normal thing for agencies to do a mailer,” says Van Allen, a former Santa Cruz mayor and longtime campaign worker. “I wish [the subject matter] was something I was for. It’s just them trying to shape public opinion. There’s nothing wrong with that.” For more information about the TRIP, visit www.sccrtc.org/ move. JACOB PIERCE

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and crowding on the valley floor sends vineyards uphill, she predicted, the quality of Napa’s drinking water would decline as its cost rose. As evidence of what can go wrong, Eldredge points to the city’s other drinking water supply, the Lake Hennessey reservoir. Unchecked fertilizer runoff from upstream vineyards has increased Hennessey’s phosphate and sulfate levels, which have spurred algal growth. The nutrients have also quadrupled the utility’s cleanup costs, which include treating the water with algaecides and chlorine. Unfortunately, this process can also generate byproducts called trihalomethanes, which have been linked to an increased risk of miscarriage, bladder and rectal cancers. So far, the cost of treating Lake Hennessey water has not been passed on to customers, but if Lake Milliken were to be tainted by vineyard runoff, Eldredge says, rates would rise to cover the cost of new treatment infrastructure. The Walt Ranch project will, like other hillside vineyards, employ runoff- and erosion-control systems; engineers will dig on-site retention ponds to hold stormwater, then pipe that flow to nearby creeks. But Thomas Lippe says those erosion control methods—which conform to a county ordinance—are fundamentally flawed. Yes, the ponds and pipes can control erosion on the vineyard property and those directly below it, but when that water shoots from a pipe under high pressure offsite, it undercuts streambanks, erodes streambeds, and stirs up sediment. Lippe is a San Francisco attorney who successfully sued the county in 1999 over hillside vineyard development. Napa County, he says, “simply hasn’t adjusted its runoff calculation models to account for how water behaves once you put it into a plastic pipe.” Walt Ranch developers Kathryn and Craig Hall—who moved to the area from Texas, where Craig Hall made his fortune in real estate and was once a part-owner of the Dallas Cowboys—defend the integrity of their project and their commitment to the environment. Their vineyards boast organic certification, and their St. Helena winery was California’s >18

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community, and that means renting a bedroom in a house and sharing a kitchen and living with people you don’t know. You’re living in a neighborhood that you don’t want to be, but that’s what they do.” Mesiti-Miller, 62, says he traces his interest in affordable housing to 1983, when he moved to Santa Cruz’s eastside from Santa Clara, and it took him six weeks to find a place to live. The problem is much worse now, says Mesiti-Miller, with 32 percent of people living alone in a city housing system that’s designed for single families and flooded with young people. “That seems way out of whack with what our community actually needs. If you look around in our community, what we need is smaller, denser, more affordable housing. That’s what we need and we’re going to need that well into the future,” he says. Mesiti-Miller is also a board member of Friends of the Rail Trail, which supports the construction of a 32-mile biking and walking trail from Davenport to Watsonville along the existing railroad. He wants to see

the revitalization of Santa Cruz County’s passenger rail and bus system. The current transportation system is broken, and Highway 1 congestion affects the entire region’s quality of life, says Mesiti-Miller. “Who [in Santa Cruz] will say, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, ‘Oh, I think I’ll go for a walk in Nisene Marks.’ Nobody does that. Why? Nobody wants to sit in traffic,” Mesiti-Miller says. The crux of his vision for Santa Cruz— dense, affordable housing in pedestrianand bike-friendly neighborhoods, and a European-standard public rail and bus system—is the implementation of General Plan 2030. Right now, the city’s planning commission is engaged in updating its zoning codes along its corridors. “The general plan basically is the document that’s going to allow our community to become the community we want it to be, and it’s going to happen over 20 years, 30 years,” Mesiti-Miller says. “It’s the community that our children are going to inherit, and the people who are moving here are going to inherit.”

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called transit-oriented development, or T.O.D., and it tells us what we need are housing units along our corridors.” As they are now, the corridors aren’t comfortable for pedestrian traffic, says MesitiMiller: Soquel Avenue carries around 30,000 cars each day, according to a 2014 report. “Who wants to walk along Soquel between Morrissey and Capitola Road? Nobody,” says Mesiti-Miller. “There’s no place to park, no place to ride your bike. It’s dangerous. A guy was killed there on his bike a year or two ago.” Santa Cruz’s busiest streets need wider sidewalks, space for bicycles and places to park them, and trees, he says. “We need to create neighborhoods along our corridor. How do we do that? Instead of designing our streets for the car, which is what we’ve done, we need to design the streets for the people in those neighborhoods.” What’s more, Mesiti-Miller says he’s astounded by the gap between the city’s population growth and its relatively stagnant housing growth. Between 2010

and 2015, Santa Cruz’s population grew by more than 4,000 people, to 64,220, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Yet from 2007 to 2015, only 1,000 new housing units were built in the city, according to a State of the City report from May. (Since 2004, UCSC’s enrollment has increased by 2,700 and the campus has added 2,100 beds. Campus housing has had a 97 percent occupancy rate since 2011, according to the university.) Meanwhile, the city has an oversupply of single-family homes, which make up two-thirds of Santa Cruz’s housing units. As a result, more people are packing into houses that aren’t meant to be shared, Mesiti-Miller says. “The technical term for this is ‘unrelated adults living together,’” he says. “It’s strangers living together in houses that are only designed as single-family houses. You go and talk to them, and they say ‘I don’t want to live here. I don’t want to be detached from downtown. I don’t want to be detached from where I want to be spending my time.’ “These are the young people. They’re doing what they can to live in our

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t was October of last year when Councilmember Cynthia Chase brought about 20 gardeners to Santa Cruz City Hall on Center Street to sit down with Kris Reyes, the Santa Cruz Seaside Company’s spokesperson, and discuss the future of the Beach Flats Community Garden. In the weeks leading up to the talk, activists in neon shirts reading “Guarde el Jardín” had been crowding small meeting rooms. Green-space supporters had

written impassioned letters to local newspapers imploring everyone to do whatever they could to save the cacti, corn and other vegetables on the nearly half-acre patch of land owned by the Seaside Company, but farmed for 20 years by local gardeners, many of whom worried they had harvested for their last season there. On the wall in that October meeting hung a historic oil painting of the San Lorenzo River in 1876,

of the last two compromises the Seaside Company had suggested. The October discussion had laid the groundwork. “We talked at length about what was important to them,” Reyes remembers. “I tried to share, as best I could, what was important to us. And I felt like each time we did that, we had a better understanding of what was important to each side, and I think those meetings were critical in allowing the gardeners to feel comfortable enough with us to sign their agreement and begin the transition. But we put a lot of time into working with them and understanding.” If there was one thing that could be said to have set off and gradually worsened the arguments over the garden, which first turned contentious nearly a year ago, it would be the mutual feeling of disrespect each side felt from the other. Garden advocates felt it was a sanctuary in a place practically overrun with Boardwalk visitors for several months out of the year. “The noise and the traffic and the trash,” says Vicki Winters, a longtime garden supporter. “It is this little oasis there.” Meanwhile, Reyes and his coworkers wondered how they ended up getting yelled at after donating a parcel of land for 20 years. “Everybody’s right. Nobody’s wrong in that,” Chase says. “That was their experience. That was their perception.”

and out the window, the city’s courtyard fountain lay dry and empty due to water rationing in the drought. Sitting in swivel chairs at the long wooden table, gardeners talked about what they loved about the garden, which the Seaside Company had indefinitely loaned to the community for two decades. In the nearly four-hour meeting, Reyes shared why the company—which also owns the Beach Boardwalk, a few motels, parking lots and other

Beach Flats real estate—needed the land back to start a nursery for their landscaping needs. “I’m always looking for ‘What’s the middle way?’” explains Chase, now the city’s vice mayor, sitting in the same room where she started the discussion. “Where can we find some compromise? Does this have to be all or nothing? Is there some negotiation that can preserve the ability of these gardeners to keep gardening? I think that’s how it all started.”

The following month, Reyes would go on to announce at a Santa Cruz City Council meeting that the Seaside Company would be preserving 60 percent of the garden with a three-year lease, hopefully long enough for the city to find a permanent home for it. Many supporters left that council meeting still fuming, desperate to find a way to save the space in its entirety, but the new proposal offered a garden more than twice the size of either

Beach Flats, which is tucked between the San Lorenzo River and the Boardwalk, is the most economically depressed neighborhood in the city, with large families often crowded into small and sometimes rundown units. Many in the community work at the neighboring Boardwalk. With so little park space, the garden has long provided a respite from the noise that fills the air during summer nights, and traffic that plugs Beach Street on the afternoons. In that context, the garden’s disappearance

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quickly became an emotional one, says Councilmember Don Lane. “We have this community within Santa Cruz that generally is disadvantaged. No one would question that,” Lane says. “And [when] something that’s really important to the community is threatened, a whole bunch of people are gonna go, ‘That’s wrong.’ That fueled the public discourse around this—‘This disadvantaged community is being wronged, and we must not allow that.’” Reyes and the Seaside Company told city parks staff in late 2014 that the company would not be renewing the yearly $1 lease because it needed the garden for landscaping, and the city sent letters to the gardeners. More than six months later, at what Reyes calls “the eleventh hour,” activists began their full-scale campaign to protect the garden, and many suggested seizing it in its entirety. Rumors began to spread. “That’s where the frustration comes from,” says Reyes.

It isn’t uncommon, Lane explains, for people to feel slighted in the political process. Part of the job of a policymaker, he says, is demonstrating to constituents that they understand where someone else is coming from. “That’s normal in a sense. That’s human nature,” says Lane, who was involved in the Beach Flats Community Garden discussions. “But it always gets tricky when multiple players are each coming into it with that feeling. Because then you choose a side, and somebody who already was feeling disrespected and doesn’t get anything out of it is really angry—like ‘Wow, I feel disrespected. I let you know how I feel about that, and you still disrespected me.’ It’s a double injury. To me, one of the most important things is to not allow that to happen. When the different parties are feeling disrespected and not heard, [it’s important] that we deliver something to them so that they don’t feel disrespected.”

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On a recent Thursday, the late afternoon sun is casting long shadows at the Beach Flats Community Garden as young neighbors play, running in circles in and out of a small shed. Around them, young bean, kale, parsley, onion and squash plants sprout out of the ground. The spicy smell of a bonfire wafts through the air from a small pit that parents have gathered around, speaking Spanish. “The way things are grown in that garden is different than other gardens, like the ones I see in the Westside,” artist Irene O’Connell tells GT on the phone, as she sketches. O’Connell is brainstorming a few drafts for the Beach Flats mural on Raymond Street that will be repainted more than two years after city workers coated the previous mural in white paint—the beginning of an ill-fated project for which the city later apologized. (O’Connell, who is incorporating the garden into her community mural, will unveil her sketches at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 15 at Beach Flats Park and ask for input.) The gardeners’ farming style, O’Connell notes, features traditional Latin American methods that have been taught by hand. “It’s a knowledge and it’s an important resource that’s been passed down through generations,” O’Connell says. Toward the back of the garden, a wooden good-neighbor fence divides the green space from a large barren plot of dirt, where the Seaside Company will start a small nursery. On the company’s side of the barrier, weeds have sprouted from the ground. And where the vacated patch of garden faces the San Lorenzo River levees, streamers still hang from a wire fence—pieces of cloth that once spelled out pro-garden messages, but have since been rendered indecipherable and tattered from six months of sun and rain. The Seaside Company, which currently has an application into the Santa Cruz Planning Department to re-zone its portion, wants to use this land to grow and nurture plants that will go around the Boardwalk and in some of its

DEEP ROOTS Don Domingo Mendoza has been gardening at the Beach Flats Community Garden since it opened 20 years ago. PHOTO: CHIP SCHEUER

nearby parking lots. It’s part of giving guests a “softer experience,” Reyes says, “where it’s as much about the space that you’re playing in as the things that you’re doing when you’re there. The landscaping is a huge part of that strategy.” For instance, the Boardwalk, Reyes says, is filling large colorful pots, nearly as tall as a person, with large red flowers around the park. “It’s about how you create the environment where people feel comfortable and at home,” he explains. “And one way you do that is with great plants and greenery and flowers and color. It’s just being integrated throughout the park.” Back on its side of the fence, the Coalition to Save the Beach Flats Garden still holds meetings, and the group wants to make sure the garden is a big issue in the 2016 City Council race. Advocates still cling to the goal of preserving the original garden in its entirety. “I hope the garden is going to be front and center of an issue of how politics play out in this city,”

Winters says. “It’s something I want to ask candidates.”

FAULT LINES “There’s been any number of miscommunications, and I think there has been both literally and figuratively so much lost in translation,” Chase says, remembering some of the mistakes in the city’s handling of the community garden issue. “It’s really sad to me. What was really clear in the meeting with the Seaside Company and the gardeners was they want to garden. If you just boiled it down, they were like, ‘We want to garden. When can we go? Let’s garden. Let’s get back on the land.’” Everyone admits that the most tragic mishap happened on the day city workers came to divvy up the garden, and ended up cutting down fruit trees that were simply supposed to be moved after a harvest. There was also confusion about whether or not the city would be installing a bathroom, where the boundary lines of the garden would fall, and other

matters—many of which reinforced garden supporters’ distrust of the city and the Seaside Company. Many have asked for the City Council to use eminent domain and seize the property. It’s something Councilmember Micah Posner suggested at an April meeting, although no other councilmembers supported the move. Lane and Chase worry the action would sour the city’s relationship with the Seaside Company, which it often partners with on local projects. The city attorney says the city would likely prevail in court. But the costs could be high, especially if the Seaside Company chose to fight it. And the lot’s estimated value, which the city would need to pay, could run close to $2 million. In addition, that course of action could temporarily kick gardeners off their land, which is just about the last thing Lane and Chase say they want. The plan, instead, is to work together with the Seaside Company to find a new permanent home for the garden. This year, City Manager Martín

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Bernal has also prioritized affordable housing in the neighborhood, as part of a bigger strategy to improve Beach Flats—a discussion in which the Seaside Company will also participate. Of course, housing was a priority 18 years ago too, when the city drafted its Beach Area Plan, as was the garden itself. The Beach Area Plan of 1998 detailed the poor housing, insufficient park space, heavy tourist impact, unsafe streets, and overall low quality of life in the area. It also recommended, nearly two decades before this issue came to a head last year, that the city look for a permanent home for the garden. “The concern,” according to the plan, “stems from the fact that the site is currently on private property, which is proposed for eventual development.” The city has realized some of its goals set in the plan, like a levee path system and the addition of the Nueva Vista Community Resources building and housing complex. But the garden stayed put for years, while Seaside

and the city re-approved the lease agreement each year without giving it much thought. “The city has had 20 years of altruism on the part of the Seaside Company and in hindsight, we should have done something before now,” says City Councilmember Micah Posner, the council’s most vocal supporter of the garden. “I don’t blame the Seaside Company for wanting the land back. It’s just about preserving the culture, the open space and the agriculture in that neighborhood. For me, that’s what government is for, when a corporation has more influence than an entire community. The Seaside Company owns a huge part of that whole community.” Posner, an activist at heart, is skeptical that the Seaside Company and the city will do the work to save what’s left of the garden—even suggesting it would take protests or maybe even a boycott to make any headway. But, he’s quick to add, he hopes he’s wrong. No one knows exactly how anyone will make the garden “permanent,” especially because the Seaside Company doesn’t normally sell land. But Reyes and Lane point to the temporary Santa Cruz Warriors arena on an old Boardwalk parking lot as the kind of deal multiple parties can agree on. Possibly the best option, Lane says, would be to keep the garden where it is now. He notes that the city has a lot of land as well and maybe the Seaside Company will show interest in some sort of exchange. Also, as Lane noted in the April council meeting, no one has taken eminent domain off the table for good. Garden advocates aren’t taking anything for granted even though the city has made a commitment to protect the garden. Winters isn’t even surprised the city never created a permanent home for the garden after putting it in its plan 18 years ago. “Things get put in plans,” Winters says. “And once the plan’s done, everyone pats themselves on the back. ‘Wasn’t that a good plan?’ Unless people protest to make things happen, they just don’t.”

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scope of French architecture and style than any other site, with the possible exception of the Louvre. And it’s 50 years older than the Louvre, 500 years older than Versailles. Every king from Louis VII in 1137 to Napoleon III in 1870 spent time there, and they all left something behind—sometimes a room, sometimes a wing, sometimes a courtyard or painting. From the Renaissance to the 19th century to Marie Antoinette’s boudoirs, it’s got something from every part of France’s history of kings. The interesting thing to me is that in the restoration, there’s much more reverence for history than the monarchy. They give you enough information to consider the times and the priorities of the monarchs in that context, and then allow you to draw your own conclusions. As an American who has spent a lot of his life living abroad, how do you deal with displacement? I’ve thought about that a lot. I call it the “in between.” There’s a place in between languages and cultures—especially if you were an ex-pat as a child—where there’s an almost magnetic pull. It forces you to see the world a little differently, and it’s not always easy. We raised our kids in Paris, and they talk about missed American cultural references. But overall, it’s been an extraordinarily rich experience. Thad Carhart will read from and discuss his new book at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 16th, at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. Free.

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CELLO FAME Rebecca Roudman from Dirty Cello draws on her classical training to put a new spin on the blues.

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ebecca Roudman stands front and center in an automotive garage currently serving as a makeshift video set. The classically trained cellist rests her bow on the instrument’s strings, leans forward, plays a few long mournful notes, then breaks into a rousing, sassy rendition of the Robert Johnson classic tune, “Cross Road Blues.” Though the gap between the rough garage setting and the polished cello sound is wide, it’s not entirely unexpected for Roudman and her band Dirty Cello. A Bay Area outfit that tosses aside musical convention, Dirty Cello keeps its repertoire, sound, and venues unpredictable, performing

in flashmobs, marathons and a cave. For a recent recording session, the members went to, as Roudman puts it, “all the weirdest Airbnbs in California,” recording a song at each stop. Along the way, they played and stayed in a yurt, a geodesic dome, a buffalo ranch, a pirate-themed room, a 1970s Airstream trailer, a stone cabin, and a log cabin. “The weirder the better,” says Roudman. “We like to be adventurous and do weird things. It just happens that our instruments come along for the ride.” In addition to a good-sized collection of cover songs, Dirty Cello also plays original bluegrass and blues tunes that give a nod to tradition

and showcase the musical variety Roudman grew up around. Exposed to classical music early, she picked up the cello at the age of 7, and didn’t put it down—she’s currently a member of the Santa Rosa Symphony and the Oakland Symphony. But her parents were also fans of roots and blues music, and B.B. King was in regular rotation at her house. Roudman explains that playing the blues and bluegrass on a cello is not a huge stretch. For the fiddle parts, she just plays faster and higher up on the strings, and she says the instrument is a fantastic vehicle for expressing the emotions of roots music and blues. “There’s something about the blues that is so soulful and lends itself to

the cello,” she says. “I know it’s really meant for the guitar, but there’s just something about it that works.” Improvising over traditional and popular tunes is a key aspect of what Roudman does with Dirty Cello, but she had to warm up to the idea. After receiving a music degree in college, she wanted to stretch her musical comfort zone and try something different. “My first thought was, ‘I can’t improvise,’” Roudman says. “‘I’m a classical player, that’s not what we do.’” With encouragement from her then-boyfriend, now-husband and band guitarist Jason Eckl, however, she began improvising with a wide variety of acts, including singersongwriters, blues bands and hiphop acts. She immediately loved it. When asked how she balances the classical with the experimental, Roudman says that she can improvise because of her classical training. “All the stuff I learned about how to play correctly and how to get around my cello has been crucial to how I improvise,” she says.“ Classical training is what gave me the skills I needed.” For Roudman, playing covers of popular songs was simply a step further down the road of musical freedom and experimentation. “We just want to play songs that call to us, that are fun for us, or are fun to listen to on the radio,” she says. “For example, Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Purple Haze’—I’ve always just loved that song.” Other covers in the band’s impressive repertoire include Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams Are Made of These,” Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary,” and the Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun.” To watch Roudman perform, you’d think she’s having the time of her life—and she is. “It’s the best feeling,” she says. “It’s very freeing. I love being on stage and feeling the energy of the audience. I can’t describe it, but it’s a bit like a rollercoaster ride. It just feels really good.” Info: 8 p.m. Saturday, June 18. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy 9, Felton. $10. 335-2800.

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WEDNESDAY 6/15 ARTS HOUR LOCAL RADIO SHOW Host Neil Pearlberg sits down with many of the fascinating and diverse members of the Santa Cruz community. 7-8 p.m. KSCO 1080 AM. 479-1080. GERALD JOSEPH MAGIC Come see award winning magician Gerald Joseph perform. Fun for the whole family. Part of Santa Cruz Public Library’s Summer Reading Program, learn more here. 11 a.m.-Noon. Live Oak Library, 2380 Portola Drive, Santa Cruz. santacruzpl. org/news/2016/may/27/summer-readingprogram. Free.

CLASSES WHAT-IF WEDNESDAY “What-If Wednesday” is a combination of science and art that prompts wonder and discovery. Weird, wacky science becomes wonderfully wild, while art and science are brought together. 11:30 a.m.-noon. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery. 888-4248035. Free with admission. SEMI PRIVATE TRAINING This group exercise program has between two-to-five clients, early scheduling is recommended. All sessions incorporate strength, cardio, stability, toning, cardio conditioning, and flexibility into an undulating periodization model. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. 317 Potrero St., Santa Cruz. 425-9500. TRIPLE P TOGETHER IN THE PARK This is a free drop-in playgroup. 10:30 a.m.-noon. Felton Covered Bridge County Park, Graham Hill Road & Mt. Hermon Road, Felton. 465-2217. Free. TRIPLE P SEMINAR: GETTING TEENS CONNECTED Attend this free parenting seminar to learn strategies to encourage your teen to form positive connections with others. Seminar participants will learn ways to help teens: be confident, develop social skills, plan ahead, keep their commitments and take care of others. 6-7:30 p.m. 6134 CA-9, Felton. first5scc.org. SOUND IMMERSION Spend your time in healing energy as you bathe in the pure, harmonic resonance of the Crystal Bowl

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Orchestra. Meets every second Wednesday. For women with cancer. Call to register. 1:30-3 p.m. 2901 Park Ave., Suite A1, Santa Cruz. 457-2273. Free. STEAM IN NATURE Create STEAM-based nature art while learning about the science of our natural environment in this weekly class with educator Sue Creswell. Sue Creswell has been a primary teacher, with an emphasis on environmental education, for 26 years. 3 p.m. 1855 41st Ave., Capitola. 888-424-8035. Free.

FOOD & WINE TRIVIA NIGHT Trivia night at 99 bottles. 21 and up. 8 p.m. 110 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz. 459-9999.

DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ FARMERS MARKET In addition to a large variety of farm products, this market offers a great selection of local artisan foodstuffs, delicious baked goods, and lots of options for lunch and dinner. 1:30 p.m. Cedar and Lincoln streets, Santa Cruz. 454-0566. COMEDY NIGHT AT ROSIE MCCANN’S It’s Wednesday again, so that means another night of comedy at Rosie McCann’s Irish Pub & Restaurant in Santa Cruz. Come join us for $2 beers and some laughs. 9 p.m. 1220 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 426-9930. Free.

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